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Planet's most unique birds at higher risk of extinction
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study finds that bird species with extreme or uncommon combinations of traits face the highest risk of extinction. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society journal Functional Ecology.
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Webb telescope reveals exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New observations of WASP-39 b reveal a never-before-seen molecule in the atmosphere of a planet sulfur dioxide among other details.
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How recent Instagram changes are affecting engagement
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 21 (ANI/ATK): Social media marketing has proven itself incredibly valuable to today's businesses. People have become multi-channel consumers at this point, and social media outlets are among their most common sources of products, services, and information. By exte
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Negotiators at COP27 reach tentative deal on loss and damage
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Signalling potential for major breakthrough at the climate summit, Negotiators at the UN's COP27 climate summit have reached a tentative agreement to establish a loss and damage fund for nations vulnerable to climate disasters.
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Troublesome Chinese planes to go under the hammer in Nepal: report
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Nepali daily said State-owned airlines have been eager to get rid of the non-flying planes, but bureaucratic hassles forced it to hold on to them even as losses mounted.
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Russia slams Dutch court verdict on MH17 crash
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The rebuke came after Hague District Court found Russian citizens Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko guilty of the MH17 plane crash.
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UN chief voices concern as divides threaten COP27 negotiations, deadline n
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The UN chief asked nations countries to deliver the kind of meaningful action that people and the planet desperately need. "The world is watching and has a simple message: stand and deliver," he underscored. Guterres reminded world leaders that global emissions are at their highest levels in
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Research suggests Mars was once covered by 300 meter deep oceans
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Mars is called the red planet. But once, it was actually blue and covered in water, bringing us closer to finding out if Mars had ever harboured life.
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Research explores possibility of life beyond Earth
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
For millennia, caves have served as shelters for prehistoric humans. Caves have also intrigued scholars from early Chinese naturalists to Charles Darwin. A cave ecologist has been in and out of these subterranean ecosystems, examining the unique life forms -- and unique living conditions --
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Cosmic chocolate pralines, general neutron star structure revealed: Resear
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city. Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, scientists have
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Israel under threat as Hamas, Hezbollah possess over one lakh rockets
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Israel has effectively managed to develop Iron Dome batteries to intercept and bring down rockets directed toward the country. Iron Dome batteries which Israel jointly developed with US congressional funding have a success rate of 90 per cent and they can intercept and bring down low, mid
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Study of 'polluted' white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow togethe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A team of astronomers has found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
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