Electric shark repellent technology was first proposed in the 1990s, based on the special short-range electric receptor system sharks have called the ampullae of Lorenzini. Located on their snout, these …
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Tea plantations in South India, particularly Munnar (high ranges) and the Nilgiris, have been affected by unusual frost this month. The weather impact is likely to result in January-March production …
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to the year of the Ox. Blockchain Bites will not publish on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 15. Three stories Bull market buzz The first bitcoin exchange-traded fund …
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‘Orion’s Snake’ Bites As Skies Darken And ‘Earthshine’ Glows: What You Can See In The Night Sky This Week
The constellation of Orion, one of the most conspicuous in the night sky. getty Each Monday I pick out the northern hemisphere’s celestial highlights (mid-northern latitudes) for the week ahead, …
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Blockchain Bites: Clearing the Record on Yellen’s Crypto Concerns and the Bitcoin Double-Spend Fracas
After dropping 13% yesterday, bitcoin is once again on the ascent. Meanwhile, Janet Yellen has offered a more nuanced view of crypto and small Ethereum mining pools are organizing a …
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Blockchain Bites: Goldman Sachs Investigates Crypto Custody, Solving the Blockchain ‘Trilemma’
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to our U.S. readers! A former Canadian prime minister said bitcoin could become a global reserve currency, Goldman Sachs is reportedly looking to get …
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NASA has declared the Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their …
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VILNIUS: Lithuania’s parliament held its first sitting online on Tuesday as part of efforts to curb a sharp increase in infections. The Baltic nation of 2.8 million people had the …