Calangute: The Calangute panchayat on Sunday held a special gram sabha to discuss a proposal to carry out a scientific study of the carrying capacity of the village.Get breaking news anytime, anywhere ...

In recent years, marine heat waves have been taking an ever-greater toll on the world's oceans and their ecosystems. Amplified by increasing global warming, these events are occurring more frequently ...

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A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

Researchers at the Center for Brain Health at The University of Texas at Dallas tracked a group of nearly 4,000 participants — from ages 19 to 94 — over the course of 3 years. They found that targeted ...

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A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating ...

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A new study put ChatGPT to the test by asking it to judge whether hundreds of scientific hypotheses were true or false—and the results were far from reassuring. While the AI got it right about 80% of ...