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Scientists discover massive 'ocean' near Earth's core
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): The transition zone between the Earth's upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study. The research team analyzed a rare diamond formed 660 meters below the Earth's surface using techniques including
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Primordial armored worm Wufengella reveals ancestry of three animal groups
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Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that a well-preserved fossilized worm dating from 518 million years ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.
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Khosta virus can infect human beings but no case reported so far: Top scie
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 27 (ANI): A team of American scientists has found another coronavirus variant, namely Khosta-2, in Russian bats, which is capable of infecting humans.
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Scientists find evidence for food insecurity driving international conflic
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): Researchers have identified climate-driven changes to food availability as a factor behind dramatic historical events that led the oasis city of Palmyra in Syria to its ultimate demise.
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Study reveals that babies react to taste and smell in the womb
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Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): Scientists took 4D ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women to see how their unborn babies responded to flavours from foods eaten by their mothers. The research team scanned some mothers to see fetal facial reactions to the kale and carrot flavours.
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Scientists embed sensors into t-shirts to monitor breathing, heart rate
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Imperial researchers have embedded new low-cost sensors into t-shirts and face masks that track breathing, heart rate, and ammonia.
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Findings explain exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren Syndrom
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): Scientists have identified the mechanism by which Williams-Beuren Syndrome enhances the ability to discriminate between sounds as interneuron hyperexcitability in the auditory cortex.
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Researchers develop viral exposure detecting facemask
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 24 (ANI): During recent research, scientists developed a face mask that can detect common respiratory viruses such as influenza and Covid-19 in the air as droplets or aerosols.
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Scientists discover new drug to lower symptoms of severe eczema
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Illinois [US], September 24 (ANI): Researchers from Northwestern Medicine discovered a new drug that was highly effective in lowering the signs and symptoms of moderate-to-severe eczema. This is the first trial to use a biologic therapy (monoclonal antibody) instead of immune-suppressing dru
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This computer engineer-turned-conservation scientist is using sound to mit
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New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Seema Lokhandwala, a computer engineer-turned conservation scientist from Assam, who is dedicated to finding a solution to the human-elephant conflict, will be part of a special half-hour programme titled 'Call to Earth: Listening to Our Planet' this we
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Research suggests brain simultaneously processes linguistic, extralinguist
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Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): An international team of scientists conducted an experiment demonstrating that people automatically integrate extralinguistic information into grammatical processing during verbal communication.
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China to witness drought-like situations in coming years: Study
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Beijing [China], September 23 (ANI): The Chinese mainland has been under a massive grip of severe heatwaves and drought throughout summer and there is a possibility that the country will continue to experience moderate to severe drought-like situations in the coming years, impacting the soci
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