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Long-term permafrost record details Arctic thaw
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 16 (ANI): Frozen Arctic soils are set to release vast amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as they continue to thaw in coming decades.
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China suspends visas due to global rise of COVID-19 cases: Sources
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 5 (ANI): The Chinese Embassy has announced to temporarily suspend the visa of "foreign nationals in India" apparently because of the rise of coronavirus cases globally, aggravated due to the advent of autumn and winter in the Northern Hemisphere, according to sour
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Study focuses on a malformation that illustrates incredible plasticity of
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 3 (ANI): One in 4,000 people is born without a corpus callosum, a brain structure consisting of neural fibres that are used to transfer information from one hemisphere to the other. A quarter of these individuals do not have any symptoms, while the remainder either
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Covid-19 pandemic in India on decline, except for 2 to 3 States
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): The Central government on Tuesday said that the Covid-19 pandemic in India is on declining trend except for two or three states, noting that it is "particularly noteworthy" in comparison to some countries in the Northern hemisphere where a severe incre
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Global air passenger traffic to dip by 66 pc this year: IATA
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 1 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has downgraded its traffic forecast for 2020 to reflect a weaker-than-expected recovery as evidenced by a dismal end to the summer travel season in the northern hemisphere.
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Hints of fresh ice in Enceladus's northern hemisphere
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 19 (ANI): New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Unlike adults, children use both brain hemispheres to understand language
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): To understand language (more specifically, processing spoken sentences), children use both the brain's hemispheres, right and left -- quite different from what adults do. The new finding suggests a possible reason why children appear to recover from neural
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures summertime on Saturn
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [USA], July 24 (ANI): Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from the Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's
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Nainital-based ARIES organises live telecast of solar eclipse 2020 on soci
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Nainital (Uttarakhand) [India], June 21 (ANI): Nainital-based Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) has organised a live telecast of the annular solar eclipse, which takes place today, on social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
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'Ring of fire' solar eclipse 2020 to occur tomorrow
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): A rare celestial event, annular solar eclipse, which is popularly known as the "ring of fire" eclipse, will be visible this Sunday in India.
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Lava-like mud flows on Mars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): Scientists have long suspected that the 'fire-breathing' volcanoes that spread large quantities of flowing lava over Mars were not the only kind. The numerous mountain cones in the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet may be the result of mud volcanoes.
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Study looks for the source of creativity in the brain
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 6 (ANI): Neuroscientists who studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisations have suggested that creativity prompted from an unfamiliar situation is a "right-brain" activity.
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