A bold design for an vertical take-off aeroplane has received advanced grant funding from NASA with the aim of having it ready to fly on Mars in the next 6 years. MAGGIE (Mars Aerial and Ground Global Intelligent Explorer) is a compact fixed-wing electric aircraft powered by solar energy to fly…
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In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand and typewriting and showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand….
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In fantasy fiction, the dragon is one of the most common mythical beasts, but these giant flying lizards defy the reality that flying lizards have actually been found on Earth through many once upon a times—they were just really small. Case and point is this small fry from 200 million years…
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Dopamine—the same chemical signal that drives us to seek out everything from water to intimacy to cocaine, leaves a lasting imprint on the brains of monogamous animals, a new study reveals. While the role of oxytocin, also known as the ‘love hormone’ has been well studied in the context of human…
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Boogying the night away produces meaningful improvements in one’s body mass and waist circumference in people who are overweight or obese, a new study found. Dancing was also seen to improve blood pressure, insulin sensitivity, physical fitness, cognitive disorders, hypertension, cardiovascular ailments, diabetes, and mental health—in other words, all the root…
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Astronomers have discovered an enormous celestial entity so unusual they named it ‘the Barbenheimer Star’ – a moniker referring to the recent cultural phenomenon of two blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, which were so opposite, yet so successful at the same moment (‘Barbenheimer’). The team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…
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Another ancient and lost city has been identified by archaeologists working with LiDAR in the Amazon Rainforest—with this most recent society dating as far back as the Greco-Persian Wars of Ancient Greece. Located in Ecuador’s Upano Valley on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains, the area’s vast civilizational footprint had…
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