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India is conservative. It is inclined to bring out cotton wool, preserve them and pray they remain injury free. Advertisement Does Mayank Yadav have the junoon? It’s a curiosity, not a national obsession. There are reasons – the country has seen many false dawns.
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1 year ago Read more at The Indian Express

Northwestern University astrophysicists were among those involved in an international research collaboration. A neutron star is formed when a star runs out of fuel and collapses. Neutron stars develop from the collapse of stars measuring up to three times the mass of the sun. Black holes gobble up galactic material and have such strong gravity.
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1 year ago Read more at CBS News

Carnegie Science Observatories astronomer Tony Pahl says it's an exciting event because it’s different from every day. Astronomers and scientists from all over are gathering along the path of totality to conduct research during the eclipse. A partial eclipse will occur over North Texas for several hours on April 8, 2024.
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1 year ago Read more at NBC DFW

The total solar eclipse will take place on 8 April 2024. It will be visible across Mexico, the US and eastern Canada. You’ll get the best view – and the longest duration of totality – the closer you are to the centre of the solar eclipse. This is because the Moon passes in front of the Sun and casts a shadow onto the Earth.
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1 year ago Read more at BBC Science Focus Magazine

20 students named 2024 Ferguson College of Agriculture Seniors of Distinction at its annual Scholarships and Awards Banquet on April 4. Erin Slagell was named the 2024 Louis and Betty Gardner Outstanding Senior. Four were also honored with the Dean’s Award of Excellence.
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1 year ago Read more at Oklahoma State University

Luis Arroyo and Tatiana Trejos first met in Costa Rica and arrived on the Morgantown Campus with a little help from destiny. They became close friends, found common interests and fell in love. That love for each other led them from the “world’s happiest country” to the Mountain State.
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1 year ago Read more at EurekAlert

Understanding the medicine’s positive and negative effects and accounting for the placebo effect is detailed work. It is important that the data is understandable by people, so people can make careful decisions based on the data. For UD graduate students, Zhao teaches Mathematical Statistics (STAT602).
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1 year ago Read more at University of Delaware

Yong-Tae Kim, PhD, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) The purity specifications for cathode materials have been closely guarded as trade secrets with little active scrutiny on the necessity of such high specifications. Their research demonstrates that streamlining the lithium refining process could substantially reduce the unit cost of batteries.
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1 year ago Read more at Lab Manager Magazine

Some people swear by natural techniques to get labor underway, but most of them are merely urban legends, with little or no research to back them up. Some people also swear by “curb walking,” an uneven type of walking that is said to cause your pelvis to open, but there’s no evidence that nipple stimulation has any effect on labor, and they may be dangerous for both you and your baby. You should be at least 37 weeks pregnant and have approval (and, ideally, monitoring from a pre
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1 year ago Read more at Health Essentials

The illuminated species of daddy longlegs appeared to have four more eyes than scientists had previously documented. The discovery reminded him of a 305-million-year-old arachnid fossil with multiple eye pairs that was found a decade ago. In the lab, Guilherme Gainett jumped from his chair in excitement.
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1 year ago Read more at WPR