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Bihar: Over 100 students faint due to heat; schools closed till June 8 | Education

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Bihar: Over 100 students faint due to heat; schools closed till June 8 | Education

More than 100 students, including some teachers, fainted due to intense heatwave conditions during classes and assembly prayers at separate schools in different districts of the state, as the government schools reopened on May 16 after summer vacation. The matter has taken heavy political overtones. Bihar: Over 100 students faint due to heat; schools closed … Read more

Time in space is bad for the bones. N.S. prof’s research could help humans on Earth

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Time in space is bad for the bones. N.S. prof’s research could help humans on Earth

For two decades, Tamara Franz-Odendaal has been studying how space travel affects the human skeleton. Because of the absence of gravity in space, astronauts experience bone loss when they get back to Earth. “We always think of it as just the scaffold that kind of keeps the body together, but it’s a really dynamic tissue,” … Read more