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Where is it? Trou au Natron, Tibesti Massif, Chad [20.96825691, 16.571382232]
What’s in the photo? A skull-like structure within a volcanic caldera appears to stare up into space
Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the…
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SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from California, lands rocket at sea
SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Oct. 27).
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 8:43 p.m. EDT (5:43 p.m. local California…
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Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh has embarked on an ambitious plan to end the centuries-old practice of keeping elephants in captivity….
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This easy daily habit cuts heart risk by two thirds
People who walk for 10-15 minutes at a time can reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease by up to two thirds compared to those who take only brief walks lasting less than five minutes. Even when covering the same total number of steps, longer,…
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Eating More Fruits and Veg Linked to Less Sleep Disturbance
Higher fruit and vegetable consumption during the day is linked to significantly better sleep the same night, found a new study published in Sleep Health.
“Dietary modifications could be a new, natural…
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Meet Pyversity Library: How to Improve Retrieval Systems by Diversifying the Results Using Pyversity?
Pyversity is a fast, lightweight Python library designed to improve the diversity of results from retrieval systems. Retrieval often returns items that are very similar, leading to redundancy. Pyversity efficiently re-ranks these…
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7,000-Year-Old Skeletons Found in Sahara Reveal Unknown Human Lineage
In the vast desert of southwestern Libya, archaeologists uncovered a rare burial site that challenges long-standing assumptions about prehistoric human migrations. Among the 15 ancient individuals buried in the Takarkori rock shelter were two…
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Daily activities can help social networks evolve, but lasting ties take more
Almost every big life change, from starting a new school to changing jobs or moving towns, elicits the same advice: get involved and make friends. While there’s some truth to that guidance, it takes more than simply participating in activities to…
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How to Build a Fully Interactive, Real-Time Visualization Dashboard Using Bokeh and Custom JavaScript?
In this tutorial, we create a fully interactive, visually compelling data visualization dashboard using Bokeh. We start by turning raw data into insightful plots, then enhance them with features such as linked brushing, color…
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Discovery upends 100-year-old assumption about brain cells
Brains run on timing. A fraction of a second can decide whether one message arrives before another and changes what a circuit does. Signals travel along axons – the thin extensions of brain cells (neurons) that act like wires.
Textbooks have…
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