Wednesday, September 30, 2020

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A team of US astrophysicists has produced one of the most precise measurements ever made of the total amount of matter in the Universe, a longtime mystery of the cosmos.

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Sunday, September 27, 2020

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Famously referred to as the flying dragons of the animal kingdom, these magnificent, yet cryptic creatures are not your conventional gliders. The goal of this research was to understand the mystery behind their effortless and well-choreographed gliding behaviour, and the a collection of drones, GoPros, and DSLRs, were the key to unlock this mystery.

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Saturday, September 26, 2020

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Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbour? That's what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023.

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Friday, September 25, 2020

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After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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An international team of scientists said Monday it had joined forces to combat the spread of anti-Semitism online with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday improvements to be unveiled at the electric-car maker's "Battery Day" event would not reach "serious high-volume production" until 2022, knocking its shares lower.

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Apple chief Tim Cook said Monday he views the recent increase in fires, hurricanes and floods as strong proof that climate change is real.

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Monday, September 21, 2020

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NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion (roughly Rs. 2,05,787 crores), $16 billion (roughly Rs. 1,17,592 crores) of which of which would be spent on the lunar landing module.

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

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Camera traps and motion sensors help to identify and examine spatial and temporal patterns in how wild ungulates in Kanha used waterholes. But they also show the wackier side of wildlife along the way.

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Friday, September 18, 2020

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A hospital in India has deployed a customer-service robot called Mitra to patrol its wards, connecting coronavirus patients to friends and relatives.

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Thursday, September 17, 2020

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Scientists have created first gene-edited livestock that can serve as viable "surrogate sires" – males that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals – an advance that they say could improve food production for a growing global population.

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China has successfully sent nine satellites into orbit in its first commercial launch of a rocket from a platform at sea, state media reported on Wednesday.

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Elon Musk is hailed as an innovator and disruptor who went from knowing next to nothing about building cars to running the world's most valuable automaker in the space of 16 years.

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Nearly two thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives, mostly to improve health, according to research commissioned by Kaspersky. .

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Astronomers have discovered a planet the size of Jupiter closely orbiting the smouldering remains of a dead star, the first time that an intact exoplanet has been discovered travelling around a white dwarf, according to research published Wednesday.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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Scientists have created first gene-edited livestock that can serve as viable "surrogate sires" – males that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor animals – an advance that they say could improve food production for a growing global population.

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China has successfully sent nine satellites into orbit in its first commercial launch of a rocket from a platform at sea, state media reported on Wednesday.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

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The atmosphere of Venus contains traces of phosphine gas – which on Earth can be attributed to living organisms – scientists said on Monday, in a fresh insight into conditions on our nearest planetary neighbour.

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Sunday, September 13, 2020

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"Surveying dozens of villages, it becomes very difficult for us to write down all the information on a data sheet. Maintaining hundreds of sheets is a problem, and data loss is the biggest issue. We lost some valuable data to rain, abnormal weather conditions, sheets getting torn, and some random accidents that are inevitable while using paper. Things changed once we ...

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Friday, September 11, 2020

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Dark matter, mysterious invisible stuff that makes up most of the mass of galaxies including our own Milky Way, is confounding scientists again, with new observations of distant galaxies conflicting with the current understanding of its nature.

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Asteroid 2020 QL2 that could be up to 120 meters (393 feet) in diameter is expected to safely fly past Earth on September 14, as per NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

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The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff.

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Engineers have developed a robot that can detect whether people are wearing a mask to guard against COVID-19 and, if not, politely remind them to put one on.

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NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to pay companies to scoop out the dirt, take a photo, and then have it ready for collection by a future mission.

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

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Asteroid 2020 QL2 that could be up to 120 meters (393 feet) in diameter is expected to safely fly past Earth on September 14, as per NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

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The Apple Face Mask is the first created in-house by the Cupertino, California-technology giant for its staff.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

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Russian research and development enterprise Zvezda has started manufacturing of space suits and personal flight equipment for Indian cosmonauts undergoing training in Russia to be part of India's first manned space mission Gaganyaan, Glavkosmos said on Monday.

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Sunday, September 6, 2020

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China’s experimental reusable spacecraft that was launched into orbit has successfully returned to a designated site on Sunday, marking a breakthrough that could lead to cheaper round-trips to space.

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Friday, September 4, 2020

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Techniques to genetically-edit human embryos should not be used until they are proved to be reliable and safe, an international commission said Thursday, in the wake of a scandal over gene-modified babies in China two years ago.

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Thursday, September 3, 2020

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Scientists announced Wednesday the discovery of a black hole -- the oldest ever detected -- that shouldn't even exist according to the current understanding of cosmic monsters so dense not even light can escape their gravitational pull.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

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As every new parent knows, sleep can go out the window after the arrival of a newborn. According to a recent study, new mothers lose an hour of sleep per night on average and it can take them up to six years to regain pre-pregnancy sleep levels.

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