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In spite of its location midway down the eastern seaboard of the continent of South America, Uruguay's brief history is a blur of European conflict, shaped by the colonial interests of Spanish, British, and Portuguese powers.  What is starkly missing are voices from prehistory, of indigenous cultures that called the land's rolling hills and temperate plains home for thousands of years.Echoes of that lost past are finally being heard thanks to the efforts of researchers from the University of the Republic, Montevideo, in…

As air pollution decreases in the western Northern Hemisphere, several new climate simulations suggest tropical cyclones in the Atlantic may increase. The forecast is troubling, though not necessarily a surprise.  When tiny aerosols like dust, soot, and sulfates are airborne, they create smog that can dim sunlight and cool Earth's atmosphere and surface.Broadly speaking, that's opposite to the impact of greenhouse gasses, which trap energy from the Sun in our atmosphere and warm our planet. Given the competing tug-of-war…

For the convenience of the passengers, North Western Railway has now decided to extend the operation of Dehar Ka Balaji (Jaipur) - Tirupati - Dehar Ka Balaji (Jaipur) Summer Superfast Weekly Special by 2 trips.The North Western Railway has decided to extend the operation of the summer special train for the pilgrims visiting the Tirumala Lord Balaji temple. With this decision, the North Western Railway has provided a big relief to the pilgrims who want to visit the revered temple in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.The North…

Several celebrities have given innovative, ingenious names to their babies, and abandoned the traditional ones. This assumes significance because the trends set by a celebrity are followed by a large number of their admirers. Keep scrolling to see some of these unique names. 1. Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas`s daughter `Malti Marie` Surrogacy gave Priyanka Chopra and her husband, musician Nick Jonas, a baby girl. While it is unclear why the couple chose the name Malti (which could be related to Priyanka`s mother`s name),…

Cretaceous oysters of the genus Pycnodonte investigated in the new study. These specimens were collected in San Miguel County, Colorado (top left), Kane County, Utah (top right), Big Horn County, Wyoming (bottom left), and Natrona County, Wyoming (bottom right), with a penny for scale. Photo credit: Matt Jones. A new University of Michigan study that used fossil oyster shells as paleothermometers found the shallow sea that…

The US Treasury Department announced on Friday that it’s sanctioning Blender.io, essentially cutting the Bitcoin mixer off from the US financial system (legally speaking, anyway). The department alleges that the service, which lets people obfuscate the record usually kept by the blockchain, was used by North Korea to “support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency.” According to the Treasury’s press release, Blender.io was used by the Lazarus hacking group to launder $20.5…

New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of humanity since our African origins around 300,000 years ago, by analyzing our living and fossil DNA.  Replete with the ghosts of African and Eurasian populations of the deep past, these have been resurrected only through the ability of science to reach into the world of the minuscule by studying biomolecules.Now, digital…

Electric vehicle (EV) charging network platform Statiq on Friday announced that it has recently partnered with leading electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy to enhance the combined network in north India.With this alliance, Statiq and Ather Energy are set to share EV charging locations in the north.“The EV industry is collaborative in nature and requires leading players to partner together to propel it forward into the future," Raghav Arora, co-founder of Statiq, said in a statement.“The brand name of EV maker Ather…

NASA's Juno mission has spotted “pepperoni” storms on Jupiter. The space agency released the news on National Pizza Day, making the Jupiter storms all the more interesting for us. NASA released a video of the north pole of the giant planet on its Instagram handle. There we can see a dense formation of storms in red and yellow hues. NASA explained the colour of the storms and the occurrence in the caption. Adding quirk to the post, the space agency wrote, “National Pizza Day? How about Interplanetary Pizza Day? Our Juno…

North Korea will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide real-time information on military actions by the US and its allies, state media on Thursday reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying.While inspecting North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration, Kim said "a lot" of military reconnaissance satellites would be put into sun-synchronous polar orbit in the period of a five-year plan announced last year, state news agency KCNA reported."He noted that the purpose of developing…