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A nearly 200-year-old West Point time capsule that appeared to yield little more than dust when it was opened during a disappointing livestream contained hidden treasure after all, the Military Academy said Wednesday. It was just more hidden than expected. The lead box believed to have been placed by cadets in the base of a
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OHIO: One of the negative consequences of catastrophic weather incidents around the world that most people might overlook is an increase in underage marriages.Researchers at The Ohio State University conducted a systematic review of 20 studies connecting droughts, floods and other extreme weather events to increases in child, early and forced marriages in low- and
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CANBERRA: A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite, which measured 8
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Ask Alexa or Siri about the weather. But if you want to save someone’s life? Call 911 for that. Voice assistants often fall flat when asked how to perform CPR, according to a study published Monday. Researchers asked voice assistants eight questions that a bystander might pose in a cardiac arrest emergency. In response, the
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BENGALURU: When the flawless descent of the Vikram lander started from rough breaking phase to the fine breaking phase just before 6 pm, the sound of applause finally broke the tension inside the mission control room of Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) on Wednesday.As the lander started the final vertical descent with no
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ISTRAC, BENGALURU: Shortly after Chandrayaan-3 touched down softly and surely, smiling senior scientists lined up on the dais with Isro chief S Somanath to celebrate their success after years of toil.The leaders said, “Team Isro has been breathing, eating, drinking Chandrayaan-3 for the last 3-4 years. Since the day we started building our spacecraft after
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With countries, space agencies and even private space companies lining up a series of lunar missions to the south pole in the coming years, the first thing that comes to mind is why has this location become so important?Unlike the equator region of the Moon, where many lunar exploration missions had been sent by several
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BENGALURU: When the Sun sets on Wednesday, look at the Moon: India may be up there. Four years after Chandrayaan-2 crash-landed on the lunar surface, India is at the cusp of making history by landing a probe in the polar region of the Moon. If all goes well, Vikram, the Chandrayaan 3 lander, will touchdown
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NEW DELHI: India will be in a celebratory mood if the Chandrayaan-3lander module keeps its date with the Moon and lands on the lunar surface at 6.04 am on Wednesday. But it will be a job half done for Isro. The real work for Isro scientists will start after the touchdown as they will be
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NEW DELHI: With just two days left before Chandrayaan-3 attempts a soft landing at the Moon’s south pole, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday said the lander module (LM) has established a two-way communication with the orbiter of the mission’s predecessor Chandrayaan-2. Though the lander of Chandrayaan-2 mission was lost, PRADAN, the orbiter,
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