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Seven caveats in the claim about turning mercury into gold with nuclear fusion ✍️ @1amnerd
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Seven caveats in the claim about turning mercury into gold with nuclear fusion: mrf.lu/2HXpX

Seven caveats in the claim about turning mercury into gold with nuclear fusion

Seven caveats reveal why Marathon Fusion’s mercury-to-gold claims, tied to fusion, are unverified, potentially misleading, and scale-infeasible.

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India needs to train its clinical staff before erecting data shields ✍️ C. Aravinda
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India needs to train its clinical staff before erecting data shields: mrf.lu/2Hvhq

India needs to train its clinical staff before erecting data shields

User data is routinely commoditised today, and passing a law assuming compliance and waiting for complaints or litigation will not suffice. As the DPDP Act comes into effect, the government must...

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Remembering Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his bridge to India ✍️
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Remembering Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his bridge to India: mrf.lu/2Hb_p

Remembering Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his bridge to India

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji had many connections with India, including acknowledging the work of a little-known scientist who had died three decades before Cohen-Tannoudji won the Nobel Prize.

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Award-winning theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has focused on string theory ✍️ @1amnerd
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Award-winning theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has focused on string theory: mrf.lu/2Hmpg

Award-winning theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has focused on string theory

Ashoke Sen wins 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, first Indian laureate, for groundbreaking string theory and quantum gravity contributions.

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Science Snapshots: October 25, 2026 ✍️ @1amnerd
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Science Snapshots: October 25, 2026

Three key science updates in one minute: Starry Night’s dawn matched to Jul 22, 1889; cold boosts lifespan via BH2/BH4; cluster similar-buildings cools cities.

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Ariel, Umbriel and the man who made them real ✍️ Ganesh AS
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Ariel, Umbriel and the man who made them real: mrf.lu/2HNGz

Ariel, Umbriel and the man who made them real

The discovery of Ariel and Umbriel — two of Uranus’ many moons — took place 175 years ago on October 24, 1851. It was an amateur astronomer, William Lassell, who discovered these two satellites and...

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Why is glass transparent? ✍️ @1amnerd
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Why is glass transparent?: mrf.lu/2vL4h

Why is glass transparent?

Explains why ordinary glass is transparent to visible light but opaque to UV, due to energy gaps and its disordered structure.

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Musk punishes Ukraine: how exposed is India to foreign tech? | Explained ✍️ @1amnerd
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Musk punishes Ukraine: how exposed is India to foreign tech? | Explained: mrf.lu/2vLqh

After Musk punishes Ukraine, how exposed is India to foreign tech?

Elon Musk’s reported restrictions on satellite services to Ukraine highlights the risks implicit in India’s dependence on foreign-controlled technologies, from satellite navigation to banking.

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Scientists unearth new instance of ‘contagious cancer’ in animals ✍️ D.P. Kasbekar
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Scientists unearth new instance of ‘contagious cancer’ in animals

Researchers studied melanoma in the brown bullhead catfish, a resident of Lake Memphremagog, between Quebec in Canada and Vermont in the U.S. The finding is interesting because it could reveal clues...

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Indian scientists identify Martian analogue sites ✍️ Sarath Babu George
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Indian scientists identify Martian analogue sites

Kerala researchers identify Martian analogue sites in Tamil Nadu and Atacama Desert via hydrous sulfates, aiding Mars paleoenvironments study.

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