Titan’s magic islands are actually snow, study claims

A new analysis of floating “magic islands” found on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may actually be glacier-like snow, a new report says. The islands were initially spotted in 2014 by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft as it observed the orange haze that surrounds Titan. Despite being discovered nearly ten years ago, it has taken almost a decade …

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The biggest technology failures of 2023

Plastic proliferation Plastic is great. It’s strong, it’s light, and it can be pressed into just about any shape: lawn chairs, bobbleheads, bags, tires, or thread. The problem is there’s too much of it, as Doug Main reported in MIT Technology Review this year. Humans make 430 million tons of plastic a year (significantly more …

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F&O stock strategy: How to trade Titan, HDFC Life shares on Wednesday

After ending Tuesday’s session 89 points higher, Nifty was trading range-bound with a marginal positive bias on Wednesday. Nifty faces substantial resistance in the range of 19800-19900, and a breakthrough of these levels could trigger a swift upward movement, prompting an unwinding on the call side and potentially propelling the Nifty to the 20000–20200 zone, …

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Hot Stocks: Brokerages view on Titan, Nykaa and 2 other stocks

A host of important triggers are likely to have an impact on Titan Company, FSN E-Commerce Ventures, Dabur India and Gravita India. After Q2 updates, Morgan Stanley took an Equal Weight stance on Titan while Nomura maintained a neutral view on the Lifestyle-focused consumer technologies platforms FSN which operates Nykaa. Macquarie has a ‘Neutral’ stance …

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Small-Caps: just volatile, or are they also risky?

Indian markets have had a fantastic run during the last quarter, particularly due to a spectacular performance from the Small Cap Index that delivered around 20% returns. It is interesting that 46% of stocks have run up more than 20% during the last quarter—underlining the broad-based euphoria. With this kind of performance, it’s natural to …

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