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Researchers have named a new ancestral human species Homo Bodoensis that lived in Africa around half a million years ago.

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An intense X1-class solar flare is scheduled to hit the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, October 31, NASA has said.

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Twitter, which regularly tests new features ahead of their official rollout, has created a new way for some people to check out these new features before everyone else.

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As global companies prepare pledges to help stop climate change, one of the first problems they face is quantifying their emissions. The second is understanding if their solutions work.

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Researchers at TCS in India have come up with a new technology called DeepDraper that will allow consumers to virtually drape clothes on their 3D avatars to see how it wil look on them.

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The General Index, created by American archivist Carl Malamud, was released on October 7 and is free to use. The index holds over 355 billion sentence fragments and words listed next to articles in which they appear.

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More than a year after NASA launched the Perseverance rover for Mars, the space agency is bringing the focus back on how its precise landing spot was decided or who chose where it should land. In an Instagram post, NASA said that the rover made the decision moments before it touched down on the surface on February 18 this year.

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China has launched a military satellite that will test its “space debris mitigation technology," the state media reported earlier this week. The satellite was launched on Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan province, Southwest China.

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Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has faced a new glitch and scientists have pulled it onto "safe mode". NASA says it is working to fix the problem.

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NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has found hints of what could be the first planet discovered outside our Milky Way galaxy. The possible signal discovered is located in the Messier 51 galaxy, some 28 million light-years away from Earth.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialise the cosmos heats up.

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After studying the fossils, found in a sag basin in southern Patagonia (Argentina, South America), scientists concluded that the occurrence of many fossils of dinosaurs at different life stages within a square kilometre suggests they lived in herds nearly 190 million years ago (the fossils have been dated to 192 million years ago).

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Major cities in India have been installing outdoor air purifiers in an effort to curb the air pollution issue in India. But research points out that the air quality in the country has been steadily decreasing. Gadgets 360 talked to air quality researchers and manufacturers of outdoor air purifiers to find out why.

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NASA has announced that it was now targeting to launch the Artemis 1, an uncrewed mission that will return the American space agency to the Moon after decades, in February 2022. The rescheduling of the launch has delayed the mission by at least three months as the ambitious programme was initially set to take off in November.

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NASA has shared a stunningly colourful image that shows a region in outer space where newborn stars are taking shape. It is splattered with hues of red and yellow, with twinkling stars dotting the region like diamonds and sparkling as the sun's rays pass through them. The American space agency said that this colourful star-forming region looks a bit like a seasonal co...

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Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.

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NASA said on Friday that it plans to launch the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 — the first step in US's plan to return humans to the Moon — in February 2022.

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NASA has shared an incredible image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two galaxies tied in sort of a cosmic dance.

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Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University have developed PeLEDs that can make stretchable phone displays possible.

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Radiant's new technology is expected to enable people in remote and disaster areas with rapid supply of electricity as needed. The microreactors can be monitored remotely and centralised fueling, maintenance enable microgrids without any permanent impacts.

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What if a rock big enough to cause large-scale damage, say an asteroid, were to hit Earth? NASA asked one of its experts the question. Dr. Kelly Fast said it's important to find the asteroids “before they find us.” She, however, added there's no known threat to Earth.

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An augmented reality (AR) professional 3D-printed a full-scale Velociraptor for his daughter and went on to bring it to life (virtually). A video shared by Florent Germain on Twitter shows the results of this fun experiment.

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Vaping e-cigarettes may not be useful in helping people quit smoking, a recent research suggests. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had earlier suggested that smokers could switch from puffing cigarettes to vaping e-cigarettes if they were unable to quit smoking.

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Astronomers have observed an accreting white dwarf abruptly lose and gain its brightness for the first time. White dwarfs are stars that have run out of their basic fuel: hydrogen. Usually, researchers have observed white dwarfs losing their brightness over days or months. Astronomers were studying the white dwarf binary system, TW Pictoris, and the white dwarf in it ...

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NASA never stops surprising us with stunning images from outer space. In a new Instagram post, the space agency has released a new photo of Milky Way on October 19. The colourful image is a panorama of the Milky Way's galactic centre.

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Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.

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A meteorite, that pierced through the roof of a home in British Columbia, Canada narrowly missing a sleeping woman, has the potential of unravelling mysteries about our solar system.

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NASA's highly anticipated mission Lucy is scheduled to launch today at 0934 GMT (15:04 IST). The spacecraft leaving for Jupiter's Trojan asteroids will be on a 12-year journey to understand planetary origins.

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Virgin Galactic said it is delaying its commercial space travel service to the fourth quarter of 2022 and will not conduct another planned test flight this year.

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A moderately strong solar storm of G2 category hit Earth recently and created a spectacular light show for people in the US and other regions.

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European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a video clip on Instagram of an astronaut aboard ISS running on a treadmill in zero gravity. He used bungee ropes for keeping himself from flying away from the treadmill.

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NASA has introduced AstroBee robots to the world in a new post. These 'free-flying' robots help with the maintenance of the ISS and do chores that save astronauts time and energy.

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Mars is quite similar to Earth, as per a NASA scientist. In a video interview, astrobiologoist Dr. Becky McCauley Rench said that the Red Planet wasn't as dry always, as we see it today. As per NASA's own website, “Mars, like Earth, has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons, and weather.”

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A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have come up with a bipedal robot that performs the twin function of walking and flying. Named Leonardo, the part-walking robot, part-flying drone is built in such a way that it can balance itself on a slackline, hop around, or even ride a skateboard.

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William Shatner — Star Trek’s Captain Kirk — did it for real, becoming at age 90 the oldest person in space aboard a rocketship flown by billionaire Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin, an experience the actor called profound.

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A moderately strong solar storm of G2 category hit Earth recently and created a spectacular light show for people in the US and other regions.

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European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a video clip on Instagram of an astronaut aboard ISS running on a treadmill in zero gravity. He used bungee ropes for keeping himself from flying away from the treadmill.

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Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin is set to take William Shatner of Star Trek fame to space and back safely on October 13. Though the launch was pushed back by a day due to anticipated winds in Texas, it isn't holding Shatner's fans back from gearing up for the liftoff.

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The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 1,600 feet (500m) deep, 25 miles (40km) wide crater.

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Singapore now has robots on its streets to carry out safety-related surveillance of citizens. The patrol robots, named Xavier, have been programmed to roam around the streets of Singapore and detect “undesirable social behaviour.”

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Indian Space Association (ISpA), an industry body aspiring to be the voice of the country's space sector.

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Blue Origin announced it was delaying an upcoming flight set to carry actor William Shatner to space due to anticipated winds.

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NASA's upcoming mission to explore asteroids in order to learn about the earliest era of our solar system is ready to launch. The spacecraft named Lucy is expected to take off this week on a mission that is estimated to take 12 years.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually launch the Indian Space Association (ISpA) at 11am today, October 11. He will also interact with representatives of the space industry on the occasion.

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Chinese lunar mission Chang'e-5 brought back remnants of solidified lava that were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions, suggesting the moon cooled down later than thought.

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Chinese lunar mission Chang'e-5 brought back remnants of solidified lava that were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions, suggesting the moon cooled down later than thought.

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SpaceX has now become the second most valued private company with a valuation of over $100 billion. It trails TikTok parent company ByteDance that is reportedly valued at over $140 billion.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the US won the for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction.

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NASA will launch a mission this November to strike an asteroid that may pose a threat to Earth. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will be launched in order to prevent a hazardous asteroid from striking Earth.

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A Russian crew of two cosmonauts, a movie director, and an actress blasted off for the International Space Station to shoot the first movie in space, the latest twist in decades of Russia-US space rivalry.

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Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy for climate models and the understanding of physical systems.

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Researchers have now been able to reconstruct the faces of three men who lived in Egypt more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the DNA data extracted from their mummified remains, the researchers have created 3D models of the mummies' faces that show how they would have appeared at the age of 25 years.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has put a special Barbie doll — modelled after European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti — in zero-gravity at a base in Germany to prepare it for the environment before heading off to space.

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SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew carried out medical research during their space mission, talked to their family back on Earth, and enjoyed the company of a xenomorph, like those seen in Aliens. But they also took time out to capture the breathtaking views of the Earth through the huge glass dome named “cupola” on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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A giant comet is heading toward the solar system. The comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), was discovered earlier this year and will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 10 years from now, around 2031.

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ISRO's commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), has announced its first "demand-driven" satellite mission.

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Google-owned DeepMind has developed an AI-based weather forecasting system that can more accurately predict rain up to two hours ahead.

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