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Thales lived on the Anatolian coast — now in Turkey but then a cradle of early Greek civilization — and was said to have acquired his unusual power by abandoning the gods. The eclipse had an immediate worldly impact.
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1 year ago Read more at The New York Times

Myxozoans can be as small as 0.02 millimeter (20 micrometers) across as adults. For scale, that's up to 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, according to the University of Hawaii. The smallest vertebrates of all are miniature frogs, several of which are less than an inch in length.
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1 year ago Read more at Livescience.com

The stratospheric polar vortex is a huge spinning wheel of freezing cold air that forms high up in the atmosphere near the North Pole, according to NASA. It is held together by a strong wind current that goes from west to east, circling around the polar region. This wind current is often called polar night jet, which can reach speeds of about 155 miles per hour.
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1 year ago Read more at NDTV

The project was developed as part of the European Research Council project IMAGINE Adaptation. The goal of the project was to gather local constructs of adaptation to enable a discussion on the tangible influence of technocracy on current adaptation practice and the imaginaries of a city adapting to climate change. We first identified concepts related to adaptation in urban areas through literature and an expert survey.
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1 year ago Read more at Nature.com

Kristopher Neeposh and Rory Henry-Felstead from Nemaska, Que., won first place at the Quebec Indigenous Science Fair. They studied and experimented with trees and shrubs commonly found across Eeyou Istchee. Their research included reading articles, interviewing Cree knowledge keepers, and experimenting with extracts derived from boreal plants.
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1 year ago Read more at CBC.ca

Ramadan fasting is a practice observed in various cultures and religions worldwide. Beyond its religious significance, fasting also profoundly affects the body's physiology and health. This is because, “Fasting alters the secretion of various hormones”
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1 year ago Read more at Onlymyhealth

Coderina Education and Technology Foundation (Coderina) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with FCT Department of Science, Technology and Innovation. This collaboration aims to consolidate efforts to empower youth in the FCT area and continue to innovate in the fields of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, 3D and Additive manufacturing. By combining resources and expertise, the collaboration will enable both parties to create impactful programs and initiatives that address the needs of the
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1 year ago Read more at TechEconomy.ng

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is perched atop a telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the U.S. state of Arizona. Each of the instrument's 5,000 fiber-optic robots can observe a galaxy for 20 minutes, allowing astronomers to chart what they have called the largest-ever 3D map of the universe. The results were announced at conferences in the United States and Switzerland on Thursday, ahead of a series of scientific papers being
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1 year ago Read more at Voice of America - VOA News

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has made a set of revisions in the school textbooks, which includes adding references to the abrogation of Article 370, Manipur. The revised and updated content will be reflected in the textbooks this month and will be used by nearly 40 million students across the country.
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1 year ago Read more at Jagran English

Generative AI is built on the back of large language models (LLMs) This revolutionary technology has countless applications in document processing, synthetic data generation, data exploration, language translation, summarisation, writing poems and stories, editing tasks, code generation, chatbots, and enhancing customer experience. The list of use cases is limited only by our imagination. After all, this is only a creative speck of the human mind.
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1 year ago Read more at The Times of India