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Seismic waves from marsquake detected, revealed possible past meteoroid im
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a massive object, such as a meteoroid. Previous data have suggested the past occurrence of a large impact, and the findings offer evidence that might support this hypothesis.
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Researchers reveal that meteorites could have given Earth building blocks
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth. One hypothesis is that meteorites delivered amino acids life's building blocks to our planet. Now, researchers h
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Research reveals that Alzheimer's disease is caused by decline in levels o
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 5 (ANI): New research supports the hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease is caused by a decline in levels of a protein called amyloid-beta.
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Researchers explain the cause of autoimmunity in patients with type 1 diab
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin. The details of the events that occur during autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta-cells have been studied extensively yet the mystery of what causes a
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Researchers discover new method of generating nanodiamonds out of plastic
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): What happens within planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock, and France's Ecole Polytechnique conducted an innovative experiment. They used intense la
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Disturbances in adjacent dwarf galaxies suggest different gravity hypothes
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 7 (ANI): According to the standard model of cosmology, the vast majority of galaxies are surrounded by a halo of dark matter particles. This halo is invisible, but its mass exerts a strong gravitational pull on galaxies in the vicinity. A new study challenges this vie
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Do you know woodpeckers' heads act more like stiff hammers than safety hel
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 21 (ANI): For years, researchers have questioned how woodpeckers can repeatedly strike tree trunks with their beaks without suffering brain damage. This gave rise to the hypothesis that their skulls must serve as shock-absorbing helmets. Researchers dispute this idea, c
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Boom in social stress may contribute to population decline: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist has developed an "overlooked hypothesis" to help explain the projected global population decline beginning in 2064: social stress.
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Chinese top official defected to US, gave Biden administration info about
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 18 (ANI): Chinese vice-minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei, reportedly defected to the United States and gave the information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is at the center of coronavirus lab-leak hypothesis.
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US report on COVID-19 origins finds lab leak theory 'plausible', calls for
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): Amid widespread calls for a fresh probe into the origins of the coronavirus in China's Wuhan, a report on the origins of COVID-19 by a US government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is "plausib
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Wuhan lab leak possible origin of COVID-19, says Indian scientist couple
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 5 (ANI): An Indian scientist couple is working with netizens globally and has discovered some compelling evidence to support the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) originated from a lab in Wuhan rather than a seafood market as China as widely informe
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China dismisses Wuhan lab hypothesis as conspiracy amid Dr Fauci emails re
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 5 (ANI): After US top coronavirus advisor, Dr Anthony Fauci private emails were revealed to the press over coronavirus coming from Wuhan Lab, China on Friday dismissed Wuhan lab hypothesis as a conspiracy.
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