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What a new study found about the long-term impact of deep sea mining | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 30, 2025 11:30 AM IST A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, according to a new study. It said that the mining had led to long-term sediment changes and reduced ...
How Big Tech has shifted focus from AI ‘risk’ to ‘innovation’ and less regulation | Explained News
[ad_1] Until recently, the AI landscape seemed dominated by American companies such as OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic, all headquartered in California, US. However, in January, Chinese company DeepSeek released a large language model that matched its American counterparts in terms of capabilities at a fraction of their cost and ...
Explained: How screentime before bed is keeping you awake | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Apr 1, 2025 12:55 PM IST Each hour of screen time after going to bed increased the odds of suffering from insomnia by 59%, and reduced the duration of sleep by 24 minutes, a new study has found. Humans must get seven to eight hours ...
Breakthrough Prize 2025: What to know about the awards dubbed ‘Oscars of Science’ | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Apr 21, 2025 11:03 AM IST The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to 13,508 physicists across four collaborative projects at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Dubbed the “Oscars of Science”, the award was announced on Saturday (April 5) ...
ESA’s satellite to monitor forests: Everything you need to know about the upcoming Biomass mission | Explained News
[ad_1] The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) new mission, which will map the world’s forests, will launch later this month. Known as the Biomass mission, it will provide information about the state of the planet’s forests and how they are changing, which will help expand the knowledge about the role forests ...
De-extinction dire wolf: ‘De-extinction’ Has an American company brought the dire wolf back from the dead?
[ad_1] De-Extinction Dire Wolf: A United States-based bioscience company on Monday claimed that it had revived an extinct species of animal, the dire wolf, made famous by the Game of Thrones TV series. Colossal Biosciences, founded by billionaire Ben Lamm and geneticist George Church, said: “On October 1, 2024, for ...
Why Genome India Project matters | Explained News
[ad_1] The first part of India’s ambitious programme to map the genetic diversity of its people is now complete, and its data are ready to be used. The Genome India Project (GIP) has catalogued entire gene sequences of 10,000 individuals from 83 population groups. This database will eventually be expanded ...
Tracking the world’s forests: how the ESA’s Biomass mission will work | Explained News
[ad_1] The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch its ambitious Biomass mission later this month. The mission will map the world’s forests to provide the very first comprehensive measurements of forest biomass at a global scale. It will find out how forests are changing, and further our understanding ...
Katy Perry, all-female crew go to space: Is space tourism worth it? | Explained News
[ad_1] Pop star Katy Perry and five other women went to space on Monday (April 14) aboard a rocket operated by billionaire Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It was the first time since 1963 that an all-women crew has been to space. The mission, which lasted for around 11 ...
AI basics: How TPU is different from CPU and GPU | Explained News
[ad_1] 5 min readNew DelhiApr 15, 2025 04:43 PM IST Google last week launched a new computer chip, called Ironwood. It is the company’s seventh-generation TPU, or tensor processing unit, which has been designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models. Here is a look at what TPU is and how ...
