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Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.
May 24, 2026
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It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.
May 24, 2026
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There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.
May 24, 2026
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المصدر: The Hindu
May 24, 2026
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A heatwave, often misconceived as a wave of heat sweeping across the atmosphere, is actually a prolonged period of elevated temperatures caused by stable high-pressure systems.
May 24, 2026
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Physics allows creating matter from light; the problem is the scale at which the technologies need to work
May 23, 2026
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Science advances when scientists recreate what they find in nature in new conditions. That is how we got air travel, lasers, nuclear power, antibiotics, and semiconductors. Something similar may be…
May 23, 2026
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Betacoronaviruses have now caused three major outbreaks in recent memory. Drugs like Ensitrelvir provide scientists with a valuable starting point against this entire sub-family of viruses, possibly allowing humankind to…
May 23, 2026
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Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.
May 23, 2026
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A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.
May 23, 2026
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Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
May 23, 2026
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The US supreme court has preserved nationwide access to mail-order abortion pills – for now. As Carter Sherman explains, the fight to protect this medication is far from over, as…
May 23, 2026
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The redesigned mega rocket made its debut two days after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced he's taking the company public.
May 23, 2026
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Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech
May 23, 2026
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The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity.
May 22, 2026
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Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars
May 22, 2026
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A new study gives evidence that a fetus understand words from the womb.
May 22, 2026
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By triggering a carefully chosen group of neurons in the brains of mice, scientists were able to implant false memories - much like in Nolan's 'Inception'.
May 22, 2026
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Just like the Y-chromosome is passed down only from father to son, there is a piece of DNA which sits in a different part of the cell called mitochondria, that…
May 22, 2026
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المصدر: The Hindu — Sci-tech
May 22, 2026
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المصدر: The Hindu — Sci-tech
May 22, 2026
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A century after, scientists have revealed that the 1908 Tunguska devastation was caused by a meteorite by identifying its microscopic remains. Why it took them so many years makes for…
May 22, 2026
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The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.
May 22, 2026
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The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe.
May 21, 2026
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An outbreak of Ebola has emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, leading to nearly 400 confirmed cases and more than 100 deaths. To find out how the…
May 18, 2026
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Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNAAt the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February…
May 14, 2026
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