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Closest to the Sun yet, Mercury has craters that could be coldest in Solar System

The joint European and Japanese space agency's BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its sixth and final flyby of Mercury, capturing stunning images of the planet's surface and paving the way for its upcoming orbital insertion in late 2026. European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher revealed the first images, showcasing possibly icy craters that remain in permanent shadow and vast …

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2 days, 22 hours ago

Iyer Brothers drew from a vast repertoire of compositions at their veena concert

The Hindu

When two or more veena players get together to present a kutcheri, and when they use the arrangement to their advantage, the concert becomes a pleasant exercise. The brothers started with Pallavi Gopala Iyer’s Thodi varnam ‘Kanakangi ni chelimi’ in Ata tala. They played another Dikshitar kriti ‘Sri mathrubhootham’, a song where the composer meditates upon the form of Thayumanavar …

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2 days, 23 hours ago

NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots

Wired

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there are vast internal oceans that could potentially support life. In October, NASA launched the Europa Clipper probe to learn more about the conditions on Europa, and now there are …

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Can Nikola Tesla's idea of free, limitless energy be turned into reality today?

India Today

In the early 1900s, Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla stood before his ambitious Wardenclyffe Tower, a colossal structure on Long Island, New York, designed to transmit electricity wirelessly across the globe. TESLA'S VISION OF FREE ENERGY Nikola Tesla's idea centred on transmitting electrical energy through the Earth's atmosphere, utilising the planet's natural conductivity. Nikola Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory …

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1 week ago

Pregnant women in remote areas travel vast distances for antenatal care

ABC

Parents-to-be Peta Mackay and Michael 'Dickie' Absalom are finally on the home straight of a gruelling fertility journey that has culminated in a high-risk pregnancy. But over the past three months, Ms Mackay has also had to factor in the massive round trip to Adelaide every two weeks for antenatal care — a trip she makes on her own. With …

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WhatsApp Web New Feature: You Will Be Able To Do Reverse Image Search To Help Identify Fake Photos

ABP News

WhatsApp, the widely used messaging platform, has long been a medium where misinformation and fake content can spread rapidly among its vast user base. To address this issue, Meta is rolling out a reverse image search feature for WhatsApp Web users. Reverse image search, in simpler words, is you putting a picture in search and then search engines find the …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Thousands of starfish wash up on Noord-Holland beaches, including Zandvoort

NL Times

Beaches in Noord-Holland were again blanketed with hundreds of starfish, marking the latest in a recurring natural phenomenon that has fascinated locals and visitors alike. This year’s spectacle mirrors a similar event around the same time last year, when beachgoers encountered a vast number of starfish scattered along the shoreline. "The wind can churn up the seabed, sweeping starfish along …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

SpaceX to launch more private astronaut missions to ISS

Raw Story

Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to fly private crew missions to the International Space Station in partnership with a Calfornia-based startup, the two companies said on Thursday. The missions are contingent on approval by NASA and involve the Vast startup, which also aims to launch the world's first commercial space station as early as next year. "Enabling payload and crewed …

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Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill

Wired

The US Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday after congressional leaders earlier this month stripped the bill of provisions designed to safeguard against excessive government surveillance. The Senate’s 85–14 vote cements a major expansion of a controversial US surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Legal experts began issuing warnings last winter over Congress’s …

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Hunt for Assad's 'ghost' brother: Tyrant's 'vampire' sibling who oversaw £1.9bn drugs empire becomes Syria's most-wanted as rebels find sex pills and secret tunnels at his empty palace

Daily Mail

Syrian rebels are hunting for one of the most-wanted members of the fallen regime - the sadistic brother of deposed president Bashar Al-Assad dubbed 'The Enforcer', who was feared across the war-torn nation for his brutality. Maher Hafez al-Assad, 57, has been dubbed 'The Enforcer' for his brutal role as a military commander in the regime Maher was the youngest …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Why do India and China have single time zones despite their vast landmass?

India Today

US President Donald Trump has shown his interest in ending the Daylight Saving Time, which could add to complications in the United States functionality, which is divided in several time zones. Meanwhile, India and China, two of the world’s largest countries by landmass and population, operate under a single time zone — a decision driven by historical, political, and practical …

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Why do India and China have single time zones despite their vast landmass?

India Today

US President Donald Trump has shown his interest in ending the Daylight Saving Time, which could add to complications in the United States functionality, which is divided in several time zones. Meanwhile, India and China, two of the world’s largest countries by landmass and population, operate under a single time zone â€” a decision driven by historical, political, and practical …

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4 weeks ago

Syrian rebels unearth Assad's drug empire, seize vast haul of banned drug Captagon

Firstpost

The warehouse raided by the HTS fighters was located outskirts of Damascus, where Captagon pills were concealed inside electrical components for export A Syrian rebel fighter holds a container of Captagon pills, a brand name of the psychostimulant Fenethylline, discovered at a drug manufacturing facility in the city of Douma on the eastern outskirts of Damascus on 12 December 2024. …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Vast majority of drowning deaths are male according to national report

ABC

On Sunday afternoon a desperate search for a man who went missing at a popular Gold Coast swimming spot ended in tragedy. Risk factors The Royal Life Saving Society's state manager Nikki Thornhill said it was "really important to make sure we're not trying to remember ourselves as a fit and healthy teen". Dr Baker said he had seen relatively …

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The US deep state and its discontents

Hindustan Times

The political firestorm over an alleged transnational “deep state” — comprising the investigative journalist network, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, the Open Society Foundations of the billionaire financier George Soros, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the government of the United States — to “destabilise India” has brought crucial questions to the fore. During the Global War on Terrorism under President …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Trek into courage

China Daily

The crew members show their relief after enduring a difficult time as they emerge from a fog-enshrouded forest. In his 40s, Yang danced with death many times when he ventured through the treacherous terrain of the vast, uninhabited Changtang region in the early 2010s, and crossed the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the world's largest of its kind, during the rainy …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

History tells us dictators who build the biggest bunkers have the most fragile minds

The Independent

We have seen these scenes before, of course. You can imagine Loyd Grossman taking us through the keyhole to ask “Who would live in a palace like this?” The wealth of evil men such as Bashar al-Assad is always stolen from the people they claim to protect, but these images of dictator kitsch provide light relief from the other terrible …

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1 month ago

First lady Jill Biden shines a light on vast funding and research disparities on women’s health

CNN

CNN — First lady Jill Biden is looking to a post-White House future building on work she began while in office to shine a light on women’s health, a chronically underfunded and under-researched space – and one impacting half the population. At a White House event Wednesday, geneticist Dr. Marlena Fejzo shared her own experience researching women’s health, saying, “We …

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1 month ago

Raging Malibu fire burned to the Pacific Ocean but spared some hillside homes

LA Times

A tanker helicopter lifts off after filling up with water from a pond at Pepperdine University that it later dumped on the Franklin fire on Tuesday. At Malibu Bluffs Park at the end of Malibu Canyon, the Franklin fire reached the ocean. Along Pacific Coast Highway, between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Malibu Canyon Road, rows of clothing shops and restaurants …

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In the vast cosmos | Review of Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu

What does it mean to fail oneself? Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize this year, steps into the porous boundary between history and the now. If the novel were merely about these two, it might still succeed, but Perry’s attempt is to transcend character. Yet, Grace’s story is not merely about moral transgression; it is about the anatomy …

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Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and opportunities

Hindustan Times

The journey of Artificial Intelligence traces its roots back to 1950, when British mathematician Alan Turing asked, "Can machines think?" Leveraging techniques like deep learning, limited memory AI drives the functionality of generative AI models, which can produce human-like text, music, and even code. Data privacy and security - With vast data troves powering AI, ensuring robust encryption, anonymisation, and …

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'Vast' number of Trump insiders 'dislike and distrust' his Hegseth backup plan: report

Raw Story

With both multiple outlets reporting that Donald Trump is in serious talks with Gov. According to the Journal, "DeSantis, who served as a Navy lawyer in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, was on an earlier list of potential defense-secretary candidates that transition officials presented to the president. Early Wednesday morning, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Behind the wheel, elderly drivers are as dangerous as drunks

The Independent

Drunk drivers are castigated, but elderly drivers are facilitated. My wife was gifted a horrific and permanent spinal injury by an elderly driver who should never have been behind the wheel. In the court case, the driver was convicted but let off with a slap on the wrist, after the judge spent two hours trying to make the perpetrator feel …

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1 month, 1 week ago

From the India Today Archives (1982): Forests: The blunder of plunder

India Today

New Delhi, March 2001. The national forest policy of 1952 envisaged the country’s forest cover being raised from 23 per cent to 33 per cent of the total land area. The Birla-funded Economic and Scientific Research Foundation estimates that out of a total of 306 million hectares of cultivable land, 145 million hectares or 45 per cent of the land …

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Closest to the Sun yet, Mercury has craters that could be coldest in Solar System

Iyer Brothers drew from a vast repertoire of compositions at their veena concert

NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots

Can Nikola Tesla's idea of free, limitless energy be turned into reality today?

Pregnant women in remote areas travel vast distances for antenatal care

WhatsApp Web New Feature: You Will Be Able To Do Reverse Image Search To Help Identify Fake Photos

Thousands of starfish wash up on Noord-Holland beaches, including Zandvoort

SpaceX to launch more private astronaut missions to ISS

Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill

Hunt for Assad's 'ghost' brother: Tyrant's 'vampire' sibling who oversaw £1.9bn drugs empire becomes Syria's most-wanted as rebels find sex pills and secret tunnels at his empty palace

Why do India and China have single time zones despite their vast landmass?

Why do India and China have single time zones despite their vast landmass?

Syrian rebels unearth Assad's drug empire, seize vast haul of banned drug Captagon

Vast majority of drowning deaths are male according to national report

The US deep state and its discontents

Trek into courage

History tells us dictators who build the biggest bunkers have the most fragile minds

First lady Jill Biden shines a light on vast funding and research disparities on women’s health

Raging Malibu fire burned to the Pacific Ocean but spared some hillside homes

In the vast cosmos | Review of Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and opportunities

'Vast' number of Trump insiders 'dislike and distrust' his Hegseth backup plan: report

Behind the wheel, elderly drivers are as dangerous as drunks

From the India Today Archives (1982): Forests: The blunder of plunder