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IT services company Birlasoft, part of the diversified CK Birla Group, has appointed Manjunath Kygonahally as chief executive officer for the ‘rest of the world’ (RoW) region, effective January 2. He will be based in the UK.Kygonahally will be responsible for the company’s business and strategic growth initiatives in the RoW region, which comprises all regions outside of the Americas.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science…

Left: Satellite image of the submerged northwest shelf region. Right: Drowned landscape map of the study area. Credit: US Geological Survey, Geoscience Australia For much of the 65,000 years of Australia's human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square kilometers, an area one-and-a-half times larger than New…

(a) Visible (VIS) light photography of the selected panel at the "Carrefour" ranging from the facing Reindeers 11 and 12 at Font-de-Gaume cave (credit: Anne Maigret, C2RMF) and (b) corresponding false color infrared photography (FCIR) image of the facing reindeer evidencing the underlying black horse figure with the indicated analytical pXRF and micro-Raman point analyses. Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47652-1…

China launched a modified version of their largest rocket in a very secretive manner, and without much fanfare. Because of the level of secrecy that was maintained prior to the launch, the US military and intelligence believes that the rocket may have been carrying a military spy satellite…

Archaeologists working at the site of Chorrillo Grande 1, with visible archaeological trenches. Credit: J. Belardi A large international team of archaeologists, geologists, historians, and anthropologists has found that people living in what is now Argentina's Patagonian region had learned to raise, ride, and eat horses as early as 1600. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their…

Surface mining extents for 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 draped on 2020 Landsat 8 OLI natural color imagery. Credit: Remote Sensing (2023). DOI: 10.3390/rs15184597 As the demand for rare earth elements increases world-wide, so too do the mining activities associated with rare earth element extraction. Rare earth elements are listed as 15 elements on the periodic table constituting what is known as the lanthanide series, ranging…

Forecast for rainfall from November 2023 through January 2024. Credit: Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) The Amazon is facing an unprecedented drought that is projected to continue affecting the region at least until mid-2024. The lowest water levels in 121 years of river-level records have been recorded in the city of Manaus. Vast areas of the Amazon River's bed have been exposed, and more than 150 dolphins died in a lake…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now has reached 25000 light-years away from Earth at the star-forming region called Sagittarius C. The telescope has yet again given researchers a surprising view of deep space with extraordinary details and never-seen features. The region consists of a massive amount of protostar which is still in the formation stage and gaining mass at the same time. Check out what researchers are saying about the new discovery and image captured by the powerful telescope.James Webb Space Telescope's…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dr. Sonia Hernández, professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University, has published an article in the September issue of the Journal of American History. Her article, titled "Gendering Transnational State Violence: Intertwined Histories of Intrigue and Injustice along the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1913," explores the complex histories of violence, gender and power dynamics in…

Grave goods from the Copper Age cemetery of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The copper and gold objects are considered the oldest in the world. Credit: Kalin Dimitrov Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement of people, also culture, technical know-how, language and social practices were often…