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How Kash Patel has used children's books and podcasts to promote conspiracy theories
1 month ago

How Kash Patel has used children's books and podcasts to promote conspiracy theories

NPR  

How Kash Patel has used children's books and podcasts to promote conspiracy theories toggle caption Dominic Gwinn/AFP via Getty Images "Once upon a time, in the Land of the Free, there lived a wizard called Kash the Distinguished Discoverer," reads the opening line of The Plot Against The King. Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, told NPR …

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Alfred Russel Wallace – as important as Darwin as the father of evolution and natural selection
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Alfred Russel Wallace – as important as Darwin as the father of evolution and natural selection

ABC  

Robyn Williams: The British Science Association - an organisation that, as you heard, did much to celebrate Darwin and evolution. Robyn Williams: Now, if you go to the city Darwin, and you go slightly north, you'll find that there's a Wallace line. Tim Mendham: Slightly north and to the left, he noticed that certain life forms were different to the …

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Fact Check: Are Taylor Swift & Beyonce planning a concert to support Kamala Harris?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Fact Check: Are Taylor Swift & Beyonce planning a concert to support Kamala Harris?

Hindustan Times  

A few days ago, a publication claimed that two American pop sensation, Taylor Swift and Beyonce are planning to host a concert together in support of Kamala Harris ahead of the US elections. Rumours of a Taylor-Beyonce concert to support Kamala Harris died a quick death. After theories spread across the Internet of a possible Taylor-Beyonce concert to support Kamala …

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The story of Svetlana Mojsov, and the controversy around revolutionary diabetic drugs | Explained
1 year, 2 months ago

The story of Svetlana Mojsov, and the controversy around revolutionary diabetic drugs | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: In October, biochemist Katalin Karikó became only the 23rd woman in Nobel’s 122-year-long history to have won the prestigious award in science and medicine. “She was involved in the beginning, pioneering work, deciphering what the real active GLP-1 peptide is,” Dr. Habener told Science. The text now correctly identifies both Dr. Habener and Dr. Mojsov as …

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This comet will be visible in September. We won't be around next time it returns
1 year, 4 months ago

This comet will be visible in September. We won't be around next time it returns

India Today  

A newly discovered comet is making its way through our cosmic neighborhood for the first time in over 400 years. Named Comet Nishimura after its discoverer, amateur Japanese astronomer Hideo Nishimura, the kilometer-sized celestial body will pass Earth safely on September 12, at a distance of over 80 million kilometers. Stargazers across the Northern Hemisphere are encouraged to catch a …

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Off Alaska coast, research crew peers down, down, down to map deep and remote ocean
1 year, 4 months ago

Off Alaska coast, research crew peers down, down, down to map deep and remote ocean

Associated Press  

KODIAK, Alaska — For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in some of the world’s deepest and most remote waters. In this photo provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration, a lone sunstar rests among …

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The Hindu Science Quiz: on the layers of Earth - The Hindu
1 year, 10 months ago

The Hindu Science Quiz: on the layers of Earth - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Researchers on February 21, 2023 said an intensive study of Earth’s deep interior confirmed the existence of a distinct structure inside our planet’s inner core — a wickedly hot innermost solid ball of iron and nickel about 1,350 km-wide. Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on the layers of Earth 1 / 5 | Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann is credited …

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Competition launched to name the 20 exoplanets that the James Webb Space Telescope is set to study
2 years, 4 months ago

Competition launched to name the 20 exoplanets that the James Webb Space Telescope is set to study

Daily Mail  

Forget Boaty McBoatface, your chance to name an alien world has finally arrived! An international competition has been launched to name 20 exoplanets that will be studied by the James Webb Space Telescope. Pictured: The 20 exoplanetary systems to be named in the competition, that are among the first targets of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Proposed names 'should be …

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French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won Nobel Prize for discovering HIV virus, passes away at 89
2 years, 10 months ago

French virologist Luc Montagnier, who won Nobel Prize for discovering HIV virus, passes away at 89

Firstpost  

In 1983, a working group led by him and Barré-Sinoussi at the Pasteur Institute isolated the virus that would later become known as HIV and was able to explain how it caused AIDS Paris: French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has …

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Wang Yirong: discoverer of jiaguwen in China
3 years, 1 month ago

Wang Yirong: discoverer of jiaguwen in China

China Daily  

A translation script of jiaguwen, or oracle-bone inscriptions. Wang Yirong, a scholar and antiquarian born in Yantai, was the first person to discover and certify jiaguwen, which refers to inscriptions on animal bones and tortoise shells, in China. Wang bought more than 1,500 pieces of oracle bones to carry out research into the origins of the inscriptions. This discovery of …

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Seaborg, McMillan and the discovery of plutonium
3 years, 9 months ago

Seaborg, McMillan and the discovery of plutonium

The Hindu  

The atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan towards the end of World War II continues to divide opinion to this day. When German chemist Martin Klaproth discovered uranium, which has an atomic number 92 and is the heaviest element existing in nature, in 1789, he had named it after the planet Uranus. When McMillan discovered the element …

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Spurring a reawakening with National Science Day
3 years, 10 months ago

Spurring a reawakening with National Science Day

The Hindu  

National Science Day, which fell on February 28, commemorates a path-breaking discovery at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta in 1928, that came to be known as the Raman Effect. But Raman’s discovery marks the pinnacle for which he would win the Nobel Prize in physics two years later, making him the most visible face of Indian …

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Asteroid twice the size of Egypt's Pyramid to zip past Earth on Sunday | Explainer
4 years, 4 months ago

Asteroid twice the size of Egypt's Pyramid to zip past Earth on Sunday | Explainer

India Today  

An asteroid, twice as big as the iconic Pyramid of Giza, is expected to cross Earth's orbit on September 6. In a twitter post, Nasa's Asteroid Watch said that "asteroid 2010 FR.has zero chance of hitting Earth". — NASA Asteroid Watch September 1, 2020 Asteroid 465824 is classified as an Apollo asteroid because it will cross the Earth's orbit. As …

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Columbus Wrestling: Parts of a machine
5 years, 1 month ago

Columbus Wrestling: Parts of a machine

Associated Press  

Columbus High wrestling coach Adam Keiswetter chose Kasten Grape, Anthony DeAnda and Clay Cerny to join him at last week’s Discoverer Media Day. All three are two-time state medalists, Grape a state champion last year, DeAnda a fourth-place finisher and Cerny fifth-place medalist following an identical result as a sophomore. Though team success didn’t reach trophy-worth performances for almost two …

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dies at 89: Know the discoverer of subatomic particles and quark theory
5 years, 7 months ago

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dies at 89: Know the discoverer of subatomic particles and quark theory

India Today  

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, died at the age of 89 on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Read: Remembering Nobel laureate S. Chandrasekhar: 9 facts about the great scientist you must know Read: Remembering C V Raman: 11 facts about the Nobel laureate …

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The discoverer of a dozen elements
5 years, 8 months ago

The discoverer of a dozen elements

The Hindu  

If you were to look at elements with atomic number 95 to 106 in the periodic table, they all have something in common. Along with Seaborg, Ghiorso was able to discover two new elements – americium and curium – by employing his techniques while irradiating plutonium. By using a 60-inch Crocker cyclotron and employing helium bombardment, Ghiorso, Seaborg and other …

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NASA's Van Allen probes begin the final phase of their exploration
5 years, 10 months ago

NASA's Van Allen probes begin the final phase of their exploration

Daily Mail  

NASA's two probes exploring the Van Allen belt are re-positioning themselves closer to Earth in advance of their eventual return to Earth. NASA's Van Allen Probes spend most of their orbit within the doughtnut-shaped bands of energised protons and electrons in Earth's magnetic field. NASA launched the twin Van Allen Probes in 2012 to understand the fundamental physical processes that …

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James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
5 years, 11 months ago

James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism

Wired  

Scientific pedigrees are like any genealogical tree: When shaken, they can reveal family secrets. Early in her own career, however, Gottesman was an undergraduate research assistant in the lab of James Watson, the famed co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA. In effect—through his direct connection to Gottesman and because Watson’s work helped establish my fields of study—James Watson can …

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He swam from Japan to Hawaii and at times saw a piece of plastic in the ocean every three minutes
6 years, 1 month ago

He swam from Japan to Hawaii and at times saw a piece of plastic in the ocean every three minutes

CNN  

CNN — A French man’s attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean may be over for now, but his campaign to warn the world about the dangers of plastic pollution in the ocean continues. Late last month Lecomte said he had abandoned his goal of becoming the first person to swim the Pacific Ocean, but reaching San Francisco still remains …

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