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Research throws light on secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists have been perplexed by the signals plants transmit to start photosynthesis, the process of converting sunlight into sugars, for decades. Academics from UC Riverside have finally cracked these earlier enigmatic communications.
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Study finds remote fear memories stored in memory neurons in brain
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A remote fear memory is a recollection of painful experiences that took place in the far past, from a few months to decades. The underlying mechanisms by which the brain consolidates distant terror memories have now been clarified by a University of California, Riverside mouse study that was
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Researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.
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BSF deploys women guards in Sundarbans on India-Bangladesh border
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a major step symbolizing women empowerment, Border Security Force (BSF) South Bengal Frontier for the first time deployed Mahila Praharis to protect the international border passing through the marshy and inaccessible Sundarbans area surrounded by vast dense forests and rivers.
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Former PM HD Deve Gowda meets PM Modi submits memorandum concerning develo
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda submitted a memorandum to PM Modi on issues focusing on the Hassan Green Field airport project in Karnataka; allocation of waters of inter-state rivers Cauvery, Krishna, Mahadayi and inclusion of Kunchitiga as a sub-caste of Vokkaliga in central list of OB
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7th India Water Impact summit to begin on Dec 15 to deliberate on conserva
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The three-day seventh edition of the India Water Impact summit will commence on December 15 in the national capital and deliberate on the 'restoration and conservation of small rivers in a large basin'.
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Cyclone Mandous: Rivers overflow in several areas of Andhra Pradesh
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Roads got submerged and traffic was disrupted, as rivers overflowed in several areas of the KVB Puram Mandal on Saturday due to heavy rainfall in the region following Cyclone Mandous.
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Study: Feline genetics help pinpoint first-ever domestication of cats
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans settling in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made the first switch from hunter-gatherers to farmers. They developed close bonds with the rodent-eating cats that conveniently served as ancient pest-
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China's infrastructure projects in West Africa damage environment
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
China has started focusing on western African nations, including Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria, Gambia and Togo.
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COP27: Getting back to Net Zero; IMF lists 3 key priorities for climate mi
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This year's COp27 summit will be even more crucial in the backdrop of several extreme weather events -- typhoons in Bangladesh, unprecedented floods in Pakistan, heatwaves in Europe, wildfires in North America, dry rivers in China, and droughts in Africa.
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UP CM asks devotees to not cause pollution, celebrate Chhath in environmen
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The CM said that the campaign for the cleanliness of rivers has been taken forward unitedly. Resultantly, the Gomti river is in a cleaner form today. Chhath promotes unity, social harmony and prosperity of the society as a whole.
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Study: Alligators exposure to PFAS show negative immune system impact
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
North Carolina [US], October 20 (ANI): A recent research on alligators in the Cape Fear River discovered higher amounts of 14 distinct perfluoroalkyl (PFAS) compounds in their blood serum, as well as clinical and genetic signs of immune system impacts. The study added to the body of data li
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