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When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, astronomers had discovered a few hundred exoplanets — planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. Surveying and studying these exoplanets is the first step to finding out if there’s a…
Smallpox is a horrendous disease that killed more than 300 million people in the 20th century alone, and millions more before that. But it’s a scourge of the past — the only human virus to have been eradicated. Remembering that,…
On Sunday, November 4, at 2 am, clocks will be turned back one hour, heralding the end of daylight saving time for much of the country. The biggest consequence: The change shifts daylight back into the morning hours. For 9-to-5…
From the perspective of today’s young music fan, the most unfathomable aspect of the past might be that we were once starved for images. You could listen to a cassette or a CD over and over, but staring at one…
Earlier, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu called for the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) to be put into operation “as early as possible.” The INSTC’s estimated operational capacity is up to 30 million metric tons of goods per…
The Times reported that the EU and UK had reached a tentative deal on financial services as well as the exchange of data. The uncertainty surrounding the post-Brexit rules of the game has made British firms nervous ahead of the…
