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A new era? The 2024 Nobel Prizes and the power of machine learning

11/10/2024
The chemistry Nobel honoured research originating in a tech company, DeepMind, an AI research startup acquired by Google in 2014

Strong geomagnetic storm hit earth – what causes them? | Explained

10/10/2024
A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance in the earth’s magnetic field caused by solar activity

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Bioprinting

10/10/2024
This week’s Sci-Five quiz is on bio-printing.

Climate change and how hurricane Milton became a Category 5 storm

10/10/2024
Rapid intensification of a hurricane can catch people off guard, especially when it occurs close to landfall

New sedimentary rock made from slag is a carbon-trapping champ

10/10/2024
When lithified slag breaks down, it stores greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide through a process called mineral carbonation

Tools to design proteins, predict structure win 2024 chemistry Nobel | Explained

09/10/2024
Protein design and structure prediction — two intricately linked fields — are the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry

Science for All | 2024 Nobel Prize winners in science

09/10/2024
The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon.

NASA to launch mission on Oct. 10 to look for habitable spots on Europa moon

09/10/2024
Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed study of Europa, looking for potential places where it might host alien life.

People with autism, ADHD likelier to have eating disorders: study

09/10/2024
Neurodivergent people, such as autistic people and those with ADHD, are more likely to experience eating disorders than the broader population.

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on ‘protein research’

09/10/2024
The Nobel Prizes for 2024 in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” along with Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”

 Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat

09/10/2024
While the region is somewhat protected by its geography, the virus is close, having reached Indonesia in 2022 and Antarctica last year

2024 physics Nobel for work on artificial neural networks | Explained

09/10/2024
ANNs are within the reach of millions of people today but also less resemble their ancestors, which this year’s laureates helped build

Study uncovers surprising new ‘spatial grammar’ of gene expression

09/10/2024
Groundbreaking new work has found the fate of a gene being transcribed depends on the relative location of the transcription factor binding site

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton awarded for work on machine learning with artificial neural network

08/10/2024
The Nobel Prizes for 2024 in Physics has been awarded to duo for their inventions that helped in machine learning.

Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

08/10/2024
For Boeing, this embarrassing episode is the latest in a long series of problems.

Limestone, iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Australia 100,000 years ago

08/10/2024
Karst landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years.

Upper stage of historic PSLV-37 mission re-enters Earth’s atmosphere eight years after launch: ISRO

08/10/2024
Since September 2024, ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Space Operations Management (IS4OM) regularly monitored the orbital decay of the upper stage as part of its regular activities and predicted re-entry into the atmosphere in the first week of October 2024

The darker side of human rights for great apes

08/10/2024
Currently, “unnecessary” experimentation is banned on great apes in 29 countries including the UK, the EU and New Zealand.

Genome-editing is helping us understand hereditary cancers better

08/10/2024
Researchers are using CRISPR-based methods to explore an individual’s propensity to resist targeted therapies

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