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Indian-Origin Professor Caught In Sting Operation While Trying To Meet A 14-Year-Old Boy
The footage accuses the professor of attempting to meet someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy for sexual activity.
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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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New Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment, Custom App to Monitor Blood Pressure at User’s Fingertip
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone's camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego, US, works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents (Rs. 5.6) to make.
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Google's AI Chatbot Bard Fails To Answer Basic US College Exam Questions: Report
Bard scored 1200 points, a score that would get a student into the likes of Howard University, San Diego State University and Michigan State University.
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NASA's Mars InSight Lander Data Reveals Surprising Results About Possibility of Life on the Red Planet
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of California San Diego, Mars' subsurface has little to no evidence of water. The surprising results were derived after studying the seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath ...
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Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Could Help EVs in Cold Climates to Travel Further on a Single Charge
New lithium-ion batteries have been developed by researchers that are capable of performing well at both cold and hot temperatures, in what could prove useful for batteries used in electric vehicles. According to the study, these new batteries could help EVs improve their mileage in cold climates while cutting down the need for cooling systems to r...
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Autism-Linked Gene Mutation Reversed Using Lab-Grown Brain Experiment
The researchers studied the progress of tissues of the lab-grown brain and compared them against tissues from more typical TCF4 genes to identify the difference.
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This Wearable Can Harvest Energy From Your Sweaty Fingers to Generate Power
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has designed a new device that uses sweat from your fingertips to generate energy. Similar in appearance to a Band-Aid, a user can wrap this flexible, thin strip around their fingertips, and the wearable starts converting human sweat into electrical energy that can then be utilised to c...
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Every MCU Phase 4 Movie, Series Marvel Announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019
Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is official. At San Diego Comic-Con 2019 on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced 10 films and TV shows, including Black Widow, Eternals, Shang-Chi, Doctor Strange 2, and Thor 4.
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Marvel’s What If...? Casts Jeffrey Wright, Reveals Extended MCU Voice Cast, to Release in Summer 2021 on Disney+ — San Diego Comic-Con 2019
Marvel’s What If...?, the first animated series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has cast Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher. Over a dozen MCU stars from Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, and Ant-Man will lend their voices to the Disney+ series, out in summer 2021.
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Regardless Of Trump's Wall Talk, The Border's Always Been Blurry To These Architects
On the wall of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman's design lab at the University of California at San Diego, there's a giant map made by a group of former students. The map shows an unnamed region fronted by a broad seaboard and bisected by a perfectly straight line, rendered by the students as a length of yarn.
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North Korea's Latest Launch Designed To Cause Maximum Mayhem, Minimal Blowback
North Korea's latest missile launch seemed, as Stephan Haggard of the University of California at San Diego described it, "perfectly calibrated to create political mischief."
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US University's Invitation To Dalai Lama Triggers Uproar
The decision of an university in California to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese students who see the choice as an affront.
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Indian-Origin Chancellor Rejects Chinese Students' Call Not To Invite Dalai Lama
A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics.
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Using Facebook May Help You Live Longer: Study
Using Facebook may help you live longer, but only when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties, a new study of over 12 million social media users has found.
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Indian-Origin Professor Caught In Sting Operation While Trying To Meet A 14-Year-Old Boy
The footage accuses the professor of attempting to meet someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy for sexual activity.
-
NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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New Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment, Custom App to Monitor Blood Pressure at User’s Fingertip
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone's camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego, US, works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents (Rs. 5.6) to make.
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Google's AI Chatbot Bard Fails To Answer Basic US College Exam Questions: Report
Bard scored 1200 points, a score that would get a student into the likes of Howard University, San Diego State University and Michigan State University.
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NASA's Mars InSight Lander Data Reveals Surprising Results About Possibility of Life on the Red Planet
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of California San Diego, Mars' subsurface has little to no evidence of water. The surprising results were derived after studying the seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath ...
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Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Could Help EVs in Cold Climates to Travel Further on a Single Charge
New lithium-ion batteries have been developed by researchers that are capable of performing well at both cold and hot temperatures, in what could prove useful for batteries used in electric vehicles. According to the study, these new batteries could help EVs improve their mileage in cold climates while cutting down the need for cooling systems to r...
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Autism-Linked Gene Mutation Reversed Using Lab-Grown Brain Experiment
The researchers studied the progress of tissues of the lab-grown brain and compared them against tissues from more typical TCF4 genes to identify the difference.
-
This Wearable Can Harvest Energy From Your Sweaty Fingers to Generate Power
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has designed a new device that uses sweat from your fingertips to generate energy. Similar in appearance to a Band-Aid, a user can wrap this flexible, thin strip around their fingertips, and the wearable starts converting human sweat into electrical energy that can then be utilised to c...
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Every MCU Phase 4 Movie, Series Marvel Announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2019
Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is official. At San Diego Comic-Con 2019 on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced 10 films and TV shows, including Black Widow, Eternals, Shang-Chi, Doctor Strange 2, and Thor 4.
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Marvel’s What If...? Casts Jeffrey Wright, Reveals Extended MCU Voice Cast, to Release in Summer 2021 on Disney+ — San Diego Comic-Con 2019
Marvel’s What If...?, the first animated series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has cast Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher. Over a dozen MCU stars from Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, and Ant-Man will lend their voices to the Disney+ series, out in summer 2021.
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Regardless Of Trump's Wall Talk, The Border's Always Been Blurry To These Architects
On the wall of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman's design lab at the University of California at San Diego, there's a giant map made by a group of former students. The map shows an unnamed region fronted by a broad seaboard and bisected by a perfectly straight line, rendered by the students as a length of yarn.
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North Korea's Latest Launch Designed To Cause Maximum Mayhem, Minimal Blowback
North Korea's latest missile launch seemed, as Stephan Haggard of the University of California at San Diego described it, "perfectly calibrated to create political mischief."
-
US University's Invitation To Dalai Lama Triggers Uproar
The decision of an university in California to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese students who see the choice as an affront.
-
Indian-Origin Chancellor Rejects Chinese Students' Call Not To Invite Dalai Lama
A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics.
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Using Facebook May Help You Live Longer: Study
Using Facebook may help you live longer, but only when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties, a new study of over 12 million social media users has found.
