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1 This year’s astronomy story of the year was the total solar eclipse of April 8, which carved a path across central and eastern Canada that encompassed Niagara Falls, Montreal and Fredericton among ...

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1 What hidden message was encoded in the parachute design of NASA’s Perseverance rover, as revealed when the spacecraft touched down on Mars last February?

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Name this hydrocarbon. It’s the reason “one bad apple spoils the bunch”: as an apple ripens, it releases more of this compound, which causes nearby fruit to ripen faster.

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Kanpur: Manu, a Class 8 student of Bhouti Khera vidyalaya, and Sakshi won top places in a science model exhibition and quiz event held at an exhibitio.