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Satellite shots from April 2022 and February 2024 show a network of new roads on the landscape and the construction of buildings in eastern Kalimantan . They highlight the progress outgoing President Joko Widodo has made with his ambitious plan to move Indonesia's capital . The city is also densely populated and suffers from overcrowding, traffic congestion, hazardous air pollution and drinking water shortages .
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com

A genetic diversion in our ancient ancestors about 25 million years ago . It began as the group evolved away from Old World monkeys . After this evolutionary split, apes evolved the formation of fewer tail vertebrae . This formed our coccyx–or tailbone .
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2 years ago Read more at Popular Science

LLMs are a form of machine learning that is not confined to focused missions . The robots have what they lack: physical bodies that can interact with their surroundings, connecting words to reality . In the past 15 years, the robot has been trained to perform specialized tasks, such as finding protein folds and grating the potato .
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2 years ago Read more at Scientific American

The Michigan State University Extension science team’s goal is to increase science literacy across Michigan . Scientists prepare for days, weeks or even months to view and capture images of a solar eclipse . Our knowledge has grown since the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in February 2010 .
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2 years ago Read more at Michigan State University

Climate change increased the likelihood of the 2022 heatwave by 30 times, according to a new study led by Dr James Painter from the University of Oxford . In 2022, unprecedented heat waves affected India. There was an early onset of heat waves, and a larger area affected for unusually long durations, resulting in record-breaking temperatures . A majority of the Indian media validated climate change with scientific data .
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2 years ago Read more at ABP Live

CNRS scientists studied a stellar nursery, the Orion Nebula, using the James Webb Space Telescope . By observing a protoplanetary disk named d203-506, they have discovered the key role played by massive stars in the formation of such nascent planetary systems . These stars, which are around 10 times more massive, and more importantly 100,000 times more luminous than the sun, expose any planets forming in such systems nearby to very intense ultraviolet radiation .
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2 years ago Read more at Phys.org

Scientists have found water, thrice than that in all of Earth's oceans taken together, in a disc around a young star . The water is present in the disc which can subsequently form planet/s revolving around the star.
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2 years ago Read more at WION

India is becoming a global innovation hub under PM Modi, experts say . India has made a giant leap in science and technology in the past 10 years . In 2022-23, Punjab filed 3405 patents, with NRF accounting for 752 filings .
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2 years ago Read more at The Week

The Science Club Government College for Women (GCW), Parade Ground celebrated the National Science Day by organising a two day event . The event commenced with power point competition on 27th and concluded with science quiz competition on 28th . All winners were awarded in the valedictory function .
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2 years ago Read more at Greater Kashmir

IISc: attention is a unique phenomenon that allows us to focus on a specific object in our visual world and ignore distractions . In fact, even before our eyes move towards an object, our attention focuses on it, allowing us to perceive it more clearly, a well-known phenomenon called pre-saccadic attention .
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2 years ago Read more at The Hindu