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Realme has announced its P-Series Carnival sale in India. This special sale brings discounts and deals on Realme’s P3 series smartphones across the company website and Flipkart. Realme is offering up to Rs. 4,000 discount for the purchase of the P series handsets and this includes bank offers and exchange offers. There are no-cost EMI options as well. Latest models like Realme P3 Pro 5G, Realme P3, and Realme P3 Ultra are confirmed to see price cuts during the sale.

Realme P-Series Carnival Offers Discounts on These Models

The Chinese smartphone brand has kicked off its P-Series Carnival sale in India and the sale is already live on the company’s India website and Flipkart. As part of the sale, Realme is providing Rs. 4,000 bank offer or Rs. 3,000 exchange offer for the Realme P3 Pro 5G. This would bring down the price of the phone to Rs. 19,999, down from the original Rs. 23,999 for the base 8GB RAM + 128GB storage variant.

The 8GB + 256GB version of Realme P3 Pro 5G is priced at Rs. 20,999, instead of the retail price of Rs. 24,999 while the 12GB + 256GB RAM can be purchased for Rs. 22,999, instead of the original price of Rs. 26,999. This offer is valid today (April 21). The offer also includes no cost EMI option for three months.

Similarly, by applying the Rs. 1,000 bank offer, the 6GB RAM + 128GB storage model of Realme P3 can be bought for Rs. 15,999, down from Rs. 16,999. The 8GB RAM variant of the phone with 128GB and 256GB storage is listed with Rs. 2,000 bank discounts. The 128GB and 256GB storage variants have an effective price tag of Rs. 15,999 (down from Rs. 17,999) and Rs. 17,999 (down from Rs. 19,999), respectively. This offer can be availed between April 22 and 24.

The Realme P3 Ultra 5G is also listed with up to Rs. 3,000 bank offers. The price of the phone starts at Rs. 26,999 for the 8GB + 128GB option. Similarly, last year’s Realme P2 Pro 5G, which has a starting price tag of Rs. 21,999 for the 8GB + 128GB option, is listed with up to Rs. 5,000 off.

Gemini Advanced — the AI service that’s bundled with the Google One AI Premium plan — will be free for a year for college students in the US. Students can now claim 15 months of access to Gemini Advanced, as the company seeks to compete with rival OpenAI’s recent decision to provide two months of ChatGPT Plus for students in the US. As part of the promotion, users will also have access to 2TB of storage for Google products on their personal account, along with other Gemini AI features.

Google’s Gemini Advanced Offer is Limited to US Students

According to details on a microsite on the Google Gemini website, the company will allow users to claim free access to Gemini Advanced for a 15-month period. Users who live in the country and are enrolled at a college can avail of the offer until June 30. 

If a student has already subscribed to Google One AI Premium, they will need to cancel their subscription and claim the offer after the current billing cycle. Google charges US customers around $20 (roughly Rs. 1,700) per month for a Google One AI Premium subscription.

In order to claim the free Google One AI Premium offer, students must have an email address that ends with ‘.edu’. These email addresses are granted by colleges in the US, which is how Google is verifying that a user is eligible for the promotion.

Students who avail of the offer will gain access to Gemini Advanced (with Gemini 2.5 Pro), Notebook LM Plus (research), Whisk (image and animation generation), and Veo 2 (video generation). They will also get access to Gemini features across Google Workspace apps.

These benefits, along with the 2TB of cloud storage, will be activated on a user’s personal Google account after they have signed up and claimed the offer using the email address provided by their college. These tools will remain available until “spring 2026”, according to the company.

Google’s rival OpenAI recently announced that students in the US and Canada could sign up for free access to ChatGPT Plus for two months, as part of a limited promotion. In comparison with OpenAI’s offer, Google offers access to Gemini advanced for a much longer duration, but is only accessible to students in the US.

It is observed that about half of the matter cannot be occupied just by stars and galaxies. Scientists say that hydrogen gas clouds could unveil it. Missing matter of the universe may have finally been detected. It is reported by the astronomers that the stuff revealed and not dark matter accounts for only 15 percent of the total mass of the universe. For years, scientists have rushed into a problem, and they have not been able to find even about half of the normal matter in the galaxies, stars, and other space structures that can be seen.

Research and Discovery

At present, a large international team of researchers led by Simone Ferraro from the University of California, Berkeley, concluded that the hydrogen gas cloud that surrounds most galaxies is more extensive than previously realised by scientists. The extensiveness is so high that it could even be responsible for most of the universe’s missing matter, according to the study, which is published in the online pre-print journal arXiv.

The hunt for the Missing Matter

The researchers used data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for the investigation. With this instrument, the team piled images of approx. 7 million galaxies for measuring the mild halos of ionised hydrogen gas at the edges of the galaxies, which cannot be observed by normal methods. So the team analysed the remaining radiation from the Big Bang that is widespread throughout the cosmos. If these faint halos connect the other galaxies, there will be a cosmic web spanning far and will account for the undetected matter in the past.

Black Holes on Duty

This discovery may also change the perspective on the black hole behaviour. Scientists at first thought that blackholes forced out a high volume of gases early in their life cycle. At present, the study says that these black holes are much more frequent in action than earlier thought. Boryana Hadzhiyska, an astronomer, said in the statement that one of the hypothetical theories is that the black holes switch on and off in their duty cycle.

Future Scope

The next step is to use new measurements in existing universe models. Hadzhiyska said, there are many people interested in using our measurements for doing a thorough analysis, including this missed gas.

An expert team of biologists practising at the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, a research museum in the Netherlands, has recently discovered evidence of the incorporation of microplastics into caddisfly casings. However, what’s even more interesting is that the use of these microplastics for building the casings has been progressing from as far back as the 1970s. This breaks the traditional understanding of how far back the impact of microplastics goes. If the research is to be believed, microplastics began damaging the environment half a century ago.

What is a Caddisfly?

As per a study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, this team of biologists exemplified the discovery of microplastics in larval casings at the museum. A caddisfly is a moth-like insect that is found near freshwater habitats like lakes and streams. These are found in most countries across the world. Caddisflies make their home near freshwater streams and deposit their eggs in the form of jelly. Once the larva hatches, cladissfly begin to incorporate materials from their surroundings to protect themselves from predators.

How was the Discovery made?

The discovery commenced when something colourful was witnessed on one larva casing by one of the team members of the biologists. Further investigation confirmed that the colourful component on the larva was microplastic. With this discovery, the biologists decided to observe the other 549 casings from their collection over several decades. As a result of their study, many casings were found to have microplastics on them.

To elaborate further, one of the casings from the year 1986 had multiple blue colored microplastics. Likewise, another casing, dated back to 1971, possessed yellow plastic.

The Researcher’s Perspective

Post-discovering microplastics on cladissfly casing, the researchers suggest that the contamination of the environment has been going on for at least half a century. Significantly, they have proposed the possibility of other species being impacted by the same.

The microplastics present on the casings are compromising the safety of claddisflies as they increase visibility, which raises the chances of getting noticed by the predators. Natural materials used in building casing are being dominated by these microplastics. These factors are putting these creatures at great risk of being found and eaten by fish and birds.

The awaited Lyrid meteor shower is back! Skywatchers can catch a glimpse of these beautiful meteors streaking across the sky. Lyrids radiate from the Lyra constellation, lying near the star Vega. There are some dramatic meteors lying farther away that streak the sky. It can be seen with the naked eye, without using a telescope; in fact, using it can hinder your vision. These are one of the oldest known meteor showers, recorded back around 2700 years. These Lyrids will astonish sky observers with bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour.

What Is the Lyrid Meteor Shower?

According to reported by Space.com ,Lyrids are caused by the debris from Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1) orbiting the Sun after every 415 years. This shooting star effect is created by the particles hitting the atmosphere at high speed during the passing of Earth through the trail of dust left by the comet. Though these meteors are not the flashiest, they still create a striking moment.

When Can You See These Lyrids?

These are active from April 15 to 29, but the best show will be observed in the early morning hours of April 22. The peak hours for the meteors will be between 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., just before dawn. Escape the city lights and move to the rural region in a park, mountain, or beach trail. Keep in mind to stay safe and inform someone where you are moving. However, you can also take your friends together instead of going alone. Adjust your eyes to the dark for half an hour, and try to use red light for night vision.

The waning moon won’t be seen until after 3:30 a.m. local time, so there won’t be any outshining of the faint meteors by the moon. You can see around 15 to 20 metres under a dark sky if you are fortunate enough.

Lyrids are known for their rare surprise outburst, therefore, it is worth waiting to watch them in the sky. It brings spring to the northern hemisphere. So the wait is over, make yourself ready for this shower on April 22!