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Most of the ocean floor is a mystery, but this technology could help map it

Loknath Das

The numbers are startling: According to even the most generous estimates, more than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are totally unmapped. The average ocean depth is nearly two and a half miles, and oceans cover 70 percent of the planet. Do the maths and, in terms of total volume, 99 percent of Earth’s biosphere is essentially unknown. We think we’ve explored our planet, but those statistics are sobering. Topographically, we know more about the moon than we do about Earth. The math is about to get a little brighter,…

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Mystery Zika case in Utah may have been spread via tears or sweat

subhadip

Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the US who appears to have caught the virus at his father’s hospital bedside. Miami Beach protests against use of Naled to fight Zika-carrying mosquitos Read more Until now it was thought that Zika was only transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and, in rare instances, via semen and from pregnant women to their foetuses. A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine,…

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A peak at London’s mystery garden’s

subhadip

mystery gardens even as the Chelsea Flower show gets maximum of the fame, London’s annual Open garden Squares Weekend (taking region this 12 months from 18 to 19 June) is a lesser-acknowledged alternative that opens more than 2 hundred non-public green areas to the public. starting from a vegetable lawn on a skyscraper roof to a pass lawn in Kings go, we were given a sneak peek to seize the scene before the crowds arrive. (credit score: Olivia Howitt) The green line The Underground isn’t called being particularly green. but…

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