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China infiltrating US "Red Zone" with investments in Latin American nation
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Like other US military leaders, Richardson stated that Beijing had not yet established a real military post in the Western Hemisphere. However, worries have grown, particularly in light of June reports indicating that China may be planning to expand further after upgrading an intelligence co
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J-K: Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) organises yoga programme in Srinagar in run
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The International Day of Yoga has been celebrated across the world annually on June 21 since 2015, following its inception in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014. Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practices that originated in ancient India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in hi
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Study reveals our brain prefers positive sounds that come from our left
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Physically, the sounds we hear around us are characterised by their frequency and loudness. But sounds have meaning for us beyond those parameters: they might be pleasant or unpleasant, threatening or reassuring, engaging and rich in information, or merely noise.
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Blinken discusses democracy, human rights, food security with Argentine FM
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"Good conversation with Argentine Foreign Minister@SantiagoCafiero at the G20 this afternoon. We spoke about the importance of protecting democracy, human rights, food security, and our shared commitment to a secure and prosperous hemisphere," tweeted Blinken.
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Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the North; Here's why
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. "The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ship] at every roll," wrote one passenger on an 1849 voyage rounding the tip of South America.
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Giant mantle plume reveals Mars is more active than previously thought
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much happened in the past 3 billion years.
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Study: Synchronized neural oscillations induce empathic behaviour in brain
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The underlying neurological mechanism that enables humans to feel empathy has been identified by researchers. Empathy is brought on by synchronised neuronal oscillations in the right hemisphere of the brain, which enables the creatures to sense and share each other's dread.
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Limiting global warming now can preserve valuable freshwater resource
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A research team has found that the Andean region of Chile could face noticeable snow loss and roughly 10% less mountain water runoff with a global warming of approximately 2.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels over the next three decades. The study also shows that what happen
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Research finds how single brain hemisphere can support words, face recogni
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
During recent brain plasticity and visual perception research, it was found that individuals who had had surgery as children to remove half of their brains correctly detected differences between words or faces more than 80 per cent of the time.
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Study finds how words and face recognition can be adequately supported wit
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The findings, published by University of Pittsburgh researchers today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first-ever attempt to characterize neuroplasticity in humans and understand whether a single brain hemisphere can perform functions typically split betw
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Study finds how words, face recognition can be supported with a single bra
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A recent study revealed the functional capacity of a single brain hemisphere and brain's ability and limitations of face or words recognition.
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Summer droughts in 2022 have become extremely likely due to climate change
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], October 16 (ANI): The Northern Hemisphere summer of 2022 was one of the hottest ever recorded in Europe, with around 24,000 heat-related fatalities. It also caused catastrophic heat waves in China and North America.
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