technology: 2022

Saturday, December 31, 2022

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will turn its focus on science experiments in 2023 with dedicated missions to the Sun - Aditya - and the moon - Chandrayaan-3 - even as the nascent start-up sector is set to soar in the space applications segment.

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Thursday, December 22, 2022

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NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission was over when two co...

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

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Hyderabad police were among the first local police forces in the country to use a mobile application to issue traffic fines and take pictures of people flaunting mask mandates, as police expanded the use of the technology beyond solving murders and catching armed robbers. Here's how the city of Hyderabad is using facial recognition and the challenges it faces.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

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Friday, December 16, 2022

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Oppo revealed three new products at its annual Oppo Inno Day 2022 event, showcasing the Air Glass 2 assisted reality glasses, the OHealth H1 family health monitor, and the MariSilicon Y audio chip. The health monitor is capable of taking six different types of health readings, including heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen levels and more.

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NASA completed its Artemis I inaugural Moon mission on Sunday, as the Orion capsule returned to Earth. The US space agency is on track for the next Orion flight around the moon that is targeted for 2024 with four astronauts, followed by a two-person lunar landing by 2025 and, ultimately, a sustainable Moon base.

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Nothing Ear 2 has reportedly appeared on the Bluetooth SIG listing with model number Nothing B155. The device is expected to launch soon. It will come as a successor to the Nothing Ear 1, which was launched last year. The listing also suggests that the new earbuds will support Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity.

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Redmi Note 12 Pro 4G is reportedly in the works. Ahead of the official confirmation, the handset has been spotted on Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) website with model number 2209116AG. The listing indicates that Redmi will likely launch the Redmi Note 12 Pro 4G in markets in different monikers.

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Xbox’s Countdown Sale 2022 brings steep discounts on popular titles such as FIFA 23, Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring, NFS Unbound, Gotham Knights, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and more. Despite what the name suggests, the promotional sale will continue to run a little after new year — ending on January 2, 2023.

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Oppo Find N2 and Oppo Find N2 Flip were launched on Thursday at the Oppo Inno Day annual event in China. They run on Android 13-based ColorOS 13.0 and feature 120Hz refresh rate displays.

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working to provide its Starlink satellite broadband internet directly to smartphones. The company received a go-ahead to launch 7,500 new Starlink satellites over the next 10 years, expanding its satellite fleet in low-Earth orbit to over 10,000.

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Dust devils, known to appear on Mars since the 1970s, have been observed both from the ground and from orbit. Thanks to a new study led by Naomi Murdoch of Toulouse University in France, we now know what these dust devils sound like. Here's everything you need to know about dust storms on Mars and what they sound like.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

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Friday, December 9, 2022

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Neuralink's mistakes in its animal testing program has drawn the attention of US lawmakers who are seeking greater scrutiny of Elon Musk's brain chip firm. The company faces an investigation over potential animal-welfare violations, as well as internal staff complaints that its testing on animals is being rushed.

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Monday, December 5, 2022

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Elon Musk' Neuralink, which is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralysed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments, is facing a US federal probe along with internal staff complaints over its animal tests. The probe is said to focus on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs how researchers treat and test some animals.

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

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Neuralink is expected to begin human trials in six months, Elon Musk said on Wednesday. The brain chip interface is running behind schedule, and is said to have repeatedly missed internal deadlines to gain US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to start human trials. Over a year ago, Neuralink demonstrated its technology on a monkey with a brain chip that play...

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Friday, November 25, 2022

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NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its web site.

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Thursday, November 24, 2022

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ISRO announced on Wednesday that the launch of its versatile sounding rocket, the RH200, has been conducted successfully for the 200th consecutive time. The successful flight of RH200 took off from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Indian sounding rockets are used to carry out experiments on meteorology, astronomy and similar branches of space ph...

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Monday, November 21, 2022

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ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will launch spacetech startup Pixxel’s third hyperspectral satellite – Anand –from the Sriharikota spaceport on Saturday. Anand is a hyperspectral microsatellite weighing less than 15 kg but having more than 150 wavelengths that will enable it to capture images of the earth in greater detail than today’s non-hyper...

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ISRO plans to launch PSLV-C54/ EOS-06 mission with Oceansat-3 and eight nano satellites, including one from Bhutan, the space agency said on Sunday. The launch is scheduled at 11:65am on November 26, from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. Last week, ISRO revealed that the payload capability of India's heaviest LVM3 rocket has been enhanced by up to 450kg wi...

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Sunday, November 20, 2022

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Researchers are developing skin-like electronics that could work with artificial intelligence (AI) to potentially detect problems such as heart disease, cancer or multiple sclerosis before obvious symptoms appear. They have developed a skin-like neuromorphic "chip" that consists of a thin film of a plastic semiconductor combined with stretchable gold nanowire electrod...

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The government will host a meeting of science ministers from G20 Member nations at Coimbatore in July 2023, with the theme ‘Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Growth’. Meanwhile, science administrators will also host the Research Innovation Initiated Gathering (RIIG) on the theme Research and Innovation for Equitable Society, according to the govern...

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Friday, November 18, 2022

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Vikram-S, the first privately developed rocket in India, blasted off from ISRO's Sriharikota launch pad on Friday. The 545-kg rocket developed by space startup Skyroot, has the capability of reaching Mach 5, five times the speed of sound, and carrying a payload of 83 kg.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

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SpaceX employees who were fired after have filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board, after they were fired for circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behaviour in June. details The complaint details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, call...

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

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NASA's Artemis I was on course Wednesday for a crewless voyage around the moon and back hours after blasting off from Florida on its debut flight, half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era. The 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:47am EST (12:17pm IST), piercing the blackness over Cape Ca...

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NASA on Wednesday successfully launched its Artemis I Moon rocket, the first step in an an ambitious plan by the US space agency to send humans back to the Moon. NASA hopes to build a sustained presence -- including a lunar space station -- to help prepare for an eventual mission to Mars.

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Monday, November 14, 2022

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NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is scheduled to launch on November 16, and the countdown for the maiden flight of the orange and white behemoth has begun at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without astronauts, represents the first step in the US space agency's plan to build a lasting presence on the Moon, and taking lessons from there to pre...

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SpaceX has bought an advertising package on Twitter for its satellite internet service Starlink, said Elon Musk, who owns the rocket company and the social media platform that is seeing an exodus of advertisers. Companies including General Motors, General Mills, Mondelez International and Volkswagen AG paused advertising on the platform after Musk acquired it last mon...

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Friday, November 11, 2022

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India's first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S — is set for a November 15 launch on a sub-orbital mission with three payloads, Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace announced on Tuesday. The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry payloads of two Indian and one foreign customers and is set for launch from ...

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Elon Musk, who heads five companies including Tesla and Twitter, said in a tweet on Friday that his companies will be well positioned in 2023 despite the possibility of a tough economy. Musk's tweet comes a day after he raised the possibility of Twitter going bankrupt.

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NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket endured fierce winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Nicole on Thursday, days ahead of the expected launch of the spacecraft. Sustained winds of 136.8kmph tested the design limits of the 32-story-tall rocket and posing added risks to a spacecraft already beset by technical glitches. The Artemis I Moon rocket sustained minor damage after fac...

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The Indian Space Research Orgnisation (ISRO) has for the first time supplied a rocket system to support a private launch vehicle built in the country. Chennai-based space technology startup Agnikul Cosmos received its first flight termination system (FTS) on November 7 from ISRO.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite and the NASA test payload lifted off on Thursday from California. JPSS-2 was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

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ISRO's heaviest LVM3 rocket has been enhanced by up to 450 kg with a successful engine test, the Indian space agency said on Thursday. The LVM3 rocket, a three-stage vehicle with two solid motor strap-ons, a liquid propellant core stage, and a cryogenic stage, is capable of launching a four-tonne class of satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

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ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is set to conduct the first runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of Reusable Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), the space agency said on Tuesday. According to ISRO Chairman S Somanath, the agency is monitoring weather conditions ahead of the test of the reusable launch vehicle technology.

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Vikram S, the country's first private developed rocket, is set to launch between November 12 and 16, space startup Skyroot Aerospace said on Tuesday. With this mission, the firm is set to become the first private space company in the country to launch a rocket into space, bringing in a new era for the space sector which was opened up in 2020 to facilitate private sect...

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The last lunar eclipse for three years is set to take place today. Viewers can observe the last Blood Moon until March 14, 2025, as the Moon darkens and acquires a reddish hue on Tuesday. Here's how to watch the lunar eclipse 2022 online.

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Monday, November 7, 2022

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to move the operational activities to its marketing arm NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the space agency's chairman said on Monday. The Indian space agency will focus on research and development in the area of advanced space technologies in the coming years, he said, adding that the "connection" between the ISRO and scie...

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ISRO, the country's space agency, will team up with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for sending a lunar rover to explore the permanent shadow region of the moon, the space agency has announced. The success of the lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 was crucial as it would be used again in the mission with JAXA, according to ISRO.

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Sunday, November 6, 2022

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India and the US have “a natural synergy” and similar aspirations and it is important for them to work together in the field of science and technology not only for the welfare of their own people but also to solve global problems, a top American scientist has said. “(Through) global collaborations, we can then devise solutions that can be global, but also applic...

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As India eyes setting up its own space station by 2035, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has proposed to the industry to collaborate with it in developing a reusable rocket capable of carrying heavier payloads into orbit. Dubbed as the Next-Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the space agency was working on the design of the ro...

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Friday, November 4, 2022

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NASA rolled out its largest-ever rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to blast off on a much-delayed uncrewed mission Artemis I to the Moon. After two launch attempts were scrubbed this summer because of technical problems, the rocket returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from H...

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

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Brain chip implant developer Synchron has created a device called 'Synchron Switch' that allows patients to control an iPhone or iPad using their brain. Synchron’s technology could lead to major advances and would change the day-to-day lives of people with severe disabilities.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

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Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday said that thousands of businesses would fail to meet pledges to combat climate change, if they did not train employees on sustainability. While Microsoft itself has grown its sustainability headcount to about 250 employees from only 30 largely in the past three years, having the right workforce to deliver on its carbon-reduc...

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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China's Mengtian module docked with its new, permanent Tiangong space station on Tuesday. After Mengtian’s arrival, an additional uncrewed Tianzhou cargo craft is due to dock with the station, with another crewed mission scheduled for December. Crews for these missions could overlap, as the country's space station has sufficient room to accommodate six astronauts.

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Monday, October 31, 2022

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SpaceX is targeting early December to launch its giant Starship rocket system into orbit for the first time, a pivotal demonstration flight as it aims to fly NASA astronauts to the moon in the next few years, a US official said on Monday. Further ground tests with the rocket and regulatory reviews could delay the debut orbital mission beyond December.

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The aftermath of a large star's explosive death is seen in an image released on Monday by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense filaments of brightly shining gas that was blasted into space during the supernova. Before exploding at the end of its life cycle, the star is believed to have had a mass at least eight times greater than our sun. It was located ...

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Friday, October 28, 2022

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India's maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which will carry astronauts into the...

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

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Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The larger of the two strikes churned out boulder-size slabs of ice, which may help researchers look for ways future astronauts can tap into Mars’ natural resources.

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ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the moon, in June next year with a more robust lunar rover onboard which is crucial for future inter-planetary explorations. The space agency has also lined up the first test flight of the 'abort mission' for Gaganyaan, the country's first human spaceflight, early next year.

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Europe will commission two rocket launches from Elon Musk's SpaceX after the Ukraine conflict barred access to Russia's Soyuz, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed on Thursday. The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, a follow-up mission to NASA's DART spacecraft which last month succeeded in altering the path of a moonlet in the first ...

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

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Apple on Tuesday asked its suppliers to decarbonize operations related to the production of iPhones and other products, while announcing fresh investments to set up solar and wind projects in Europe. The iPhone maker will now require its supply partners to report on progress on carbon neutrality goals, specifically, Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions reductions, related to...

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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A partial solar eclipse began on Thursday, as the moon began to cover the solar disc. This is the last solar eclipse expected to take place this year, and is being observed in various parts of Srinagar where 55 percent of the solar disc has been obscured. In Delhi, the eclipse began at 4:29pm and is expected to cover 43 percent of the solar disc today.

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The researchers say that the small size of the rodents, excellent sense of smell together with their adventurous spirit makes them the perfect animal to help in such disasters.

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Monday, October 24, 2022

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OneWeb on Sunday announced the successful deployment of 36 satellites launched by ISRO's commercial arm NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Bharti Global is the largest investor in OneWeb, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company.

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Saturday, October 22, 2022

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ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organisation, is set to launch 36 OneWeb broadband satellites on October 23, which will be flown into orbit by the agency's heaviest rocket, the LVM3-M2. Sunday's launch assumes significance as the LVM3-M2 mission is the maiden dedicated commercial mission for NewSpace India Ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO.

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Friday, October 21, 2022

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Shortly after Friday midnight, the countdown will begin for the launch of 36 broadband communication satellites on board ISRO's heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) from Sriharikota spaceport. The launch of 'LVM3 - M2/OneWeb India-1 Mission' is scheduled at 0007 hours IST on October 23 (midnight of October 22). OneWeb is a private satellite communications comp...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape the iconic Pillars of Creation where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are far more permeable.

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NASA researchers, along with a team from IIT-Madras, have studied the interactions between microbes in the International Space Station (ISS). The study would help devise strategies for the disinfection of space stations to minimise any potential impact of microbes on the health of astronauts.

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced new renders of the Pillars of Creation, revealing the colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust in new detail with greater depth, clarity and colour. The image was first captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, and is rendered in the near-infrared spectrum with even greater translucency, bringing many mor...

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its satellite internet unit's foray into in-flight WiFi services with the rollout on Wednesday of Starlink Aviation, offering customers a $150,000 (nearly Rs. 1.2 crore) airplane antenna amid mounting competition for airborne connectivity. Starlink, SpaceX's growing network of thousands of internet satellites, will charge customers seek...

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Space technology startups have seen a fall in venture capital investment, as investors evaluating their investment strategies and focussing on companies with viable products in the market. Investments have fallen as VC backers turn to safer bets due to the current economic turmoil caused by decades-high inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and the Ukraine war.

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Friday, October 14, 2022

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ISRO's heaviest rocket LVM3 will launch British start-up OneWeb's 36 broadband satellites from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota on October 23, marking the launcher's entry into the global commercial launch service market.

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The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA departed the orbiting outpost on Friday to begin their flight back to Earth, capping a science mission of nearly six months. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three US NASA astronauts and an Italian crewmate from the European Space Agency undocked from t...

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Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot "indefinitely" fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousand more terminals after a report suggested that his rocket company had asked the Pentagon to pay for the donations.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of WR140, a distant extreme star system back in July, but the picture has stumped astronomers. WR140 is what’s called a Wolf-Rayet star. These are among the most extreme stars known. In a rare but beautiful display, they can sometimes emit a plume of dust into space stretching hundreds of times the size of our enti...

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

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SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long journey.

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Japan's Epsilon rocket was sent a self-destruct order on Wednesday, following a failure to launch, the Japanese space agency said. Designed to launch in three stages, the unmanned rocket was set to take several satellites into orbit on its sixth space mission. Epsilon's failure to launch was Japan's first unsuccessful rocket launch since 2003.

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NASA has announced that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission that crashed a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos successfully altered its orbit around parent asteroid Didymos by 32 minutes. According to the US space agency, the target of the test was a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data sho...

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

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Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated a method to detect the vibrations of a mobile phone's earpiece, which can be used to decipher what the person on the other side of the call was saying. The process reported up to 83 percent accuracy.

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During the Diwali festival on October 25, there will be a partial solar eclipse which will be visible from the city as well as from most parts of the country, astrophysicist Debi Prasad Duari said. The eastern metropolis, however, will be able to witness the partial solar eclipse, the second in 2022, for a very small duration.

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Monday, October 10, 2022

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The Indian startups would soon launch space satellites as well as satellite constellations and try their rockets, the Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said. He added that the space reforms have unleashed the innovative potentials of startups.

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Saturday, October 8, 2022

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Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) spectrometer has mapped a large amount of sodium on the Moon for the first time, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement on Friday. The moon orbiter's CLASS spectrometer provides clean signatures of the sodium line thanks to its high sensitivity and performance, while a study finds that...

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Friday, October 7, 2022

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NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased adoption of such vehicles, the US space agency said. Reducing the charging time for electric vehicles to five minutes — an industry goal — will require charging systems to provide current at 1,400A.

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SpaceX's four-member Crew Dragon team reached the International Space Station on Thursday, ahead of a five-month science mission. The team includes a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit. The inclusion of Anna Kikina, the lone female cosmonaut in active service with Russian space agency Roscosmos, was a sign of continued US-Russian coope...

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

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SpaceX successfully carried the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut into orbit on Wednesday. The launch of the rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, is the first spaceflight with a Russian launched from U.S. soil in two decades. Kikina, who had trained in the United States for the f...

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022

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Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX ship on Wednesday, alongside one Japanese and two American astronauts. Kikina is the only female Russian cosmonaut in service and is part of the Crew-5 mission. Ensuring the operation of the ISS has become one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between the US and Rus...

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Monday, October 3, 2022

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Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched an advanced Green War Room to monitor air pollution 24X7 in the national capital and ensure effective implementation of winter action plan to curb it. This war room will work from the seventh floor of the Delhi Secretariat where a 12-member team comprising environment scientists and other officials will be deploy...

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India's Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country's maiden interplanetary mission Mangalyaan may have finally completed its long innings. The Rs. 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into ...

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Friday, September 30, 2022

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Meta has launched a new AI system called Make-A-Video that will allow users to generate short 5 second video clips by entering text of the desired scene. The company has also released a research paper on the generative technology behind the model and also plans to release a demo experience soon.

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NASA on Thursday announced that it had reached an agreement with SpaceX to study the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope to a higher orbit in order to extend the lifespan of one of Earth's most valuable instruments in scientific history. The Hubble Space Telescope has no on-board propulsion to counter the small but still present atmospheric drag, and it...

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

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Cosmicflows-4, a new catalogue of 56,000 galaxies, is the largest ever compilation of distances between the collections of stars, dust, and gas across the universe. Astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy used eight different methods to measure the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The catalogue is also being used to study ho...

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

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NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid was successful on Tuesday. The US space agency is attempting to deflect the asteroid Dimorphos off its trajectory. Here's what the images shared by NASA after the impact with the asteroid can tell us about the successful DART mission, which is part of the agency's plans to de...

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NASA on Tuesday said it will be "difficult" to make its third attempt at launching its Artemis I Moon rocket in October. The US space agency said that the next possible launch windows are from October 17 to 31, then from November 12 to 27. Meanwhile, NASA has also moved the powerful SLS rocket to its storage hangar in order to protect it from the approaching Hurricane...

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission to deflect the asteroid Dimorphos could help the world prepare for a possible asteroid Armageddon similar to the one that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. Dimorphos orbits a larger 780-metre asteroid called Didymos. Unlike the 10-kilometre diameter dinosaur-killing asteroid that hit Earth, both asteroids do not...

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The Adani Group plans to invest $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,14,200 crore) in renewable energy and data centres, according to company Chairman Gautam Adani. The group plans to interconnect data centres through a series of terrestrial undersea cables drawn at its ports. It also plans to build consumer-based super-apps that will bring hundreds of millions of Adani's B2C ...

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NASA on Monday successfully crashed into an asteroid in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, as the US space agency continues to work on technology to prevent potential meteorite collisions with Earth, that could threaten life on the planet. The DART spacecraft was launched by a SpaceX rocket in November 2021, and made most of its voyage under the gui...

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Monday, September 26, 2022

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ISRO's Mars orbiter completed eight years in orbit around the Red Planet on Monday, as the space agency's interplanetary mission surpassed the planned lifespan of six months. The Indian space agency has organised a 'National Meet on Eight Years of India's Mars Orbiter Mission' mission at its headquarters on Tuesday, and Space Commission members K Radhakrishnan and A S...

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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will attempt to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, on September 26. The US space agency is set to create history when it crashes a spacecraft into the asteroid, attempting to deflect it from its trajectory. A tiny moon of the asteroid Didymos, the asteroid Dimorphos is an ideal target for NASA to test an import...

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The search for alien life just got more interesting as a team of scientists recently discovered new evidence suggesting that Saturn's moon Enceladus has oceans that have all the basic requirements and materials needed for life to survive.

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Saturday, September 24, 2022

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Elon Musk has deployed his satellite-based Starlink service in Iran amid internet usage restrictions following widespread protests in the country. US State Secretary Antony Blinken earlier announced about advancing internet freedom and the free flow of information for the Iranian people.

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crash into asteroid Dimorphos at 24,000 kilometres per hour on September 26. Launched from Earth in November 2021, DART is about the size of a bus and was created to test and prove our ability to defend the Earth from a dangerous asteroid.

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Friday, September 23, 2022

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NASA’s Artemis 1, which faces challenges while earlier liftoffs due to technical snag, might again face a delay for its scheduled launch on Tuesday. The challenge may come as a storm gathering in the Caribbean. The storm has not yet been assigned a name.

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A water drop discovered on specks of dust from Ryugu, an asteroid close to Earth, has offered new support for the theory that life on the planet was seeded from outer space. The sample of the asteroid retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 probe has already showed that some of the building blocks of life on Earth, amino acids, may have been formed in space. The research publishe...

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

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Astronomers said Thursday they have spotted a hot bubble of gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at "mind blowing" speeds. The detection of the bubble, which only survived for a few hours, is hoped to provide insight into how these invisible, insatiable, galactic monsters work.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first image of Neptune. The most striking feature in the image is the crisp view of the planet's rings. This comes a few days after James Webb Telescope captured its first images of Mars.

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The European Space Agency on Wednesday announced the names of seven astronauts that would be trained by the agency to embark on NASA's Artemis II moon mission. Astronauts from France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, and the UK will train for the US space agency's upcoming 'Lunar Gateway' orbiting module, and three astronauts will be selected for the mission. However, only on...

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Cyborg cockroaches that can be remotely controlled and powered by solar cells could help locate survivors of earthquakes trapped under rubble in the future, a new breakthrough by Japanese researchers suggests. The research involves equipping cockroaches with a flexible solar film while sending directional signals into sensory organs on the bug's hindquarters.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will join Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday as the trio blast off for the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian space agency said. Rubio is set to be the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Soyuz rocket since Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24. Me...

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new pictures of our neighbouring planet, Mars. The telescope clicked its first images and spectra of Mars on September 5. The James Webb Space Telescope, an international collaboration between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), was launched in December 2021.

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The experiment has also proved that a theory shared 70 years ago - the Schwinger effect - was correct.

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NASA announced on Monday that its InSight Mars lander had detected space rocks as they impacted the surface of the Red Planet. The robotic InSight lander tracked one space rock landing in 2020 and the other three in 2021, and all four were relatively modest in size, according to the US space agency. Researchers expect to find more data from the lander, going back to 2...

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Monday, September 19, 2022

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The experiment has also proved that a theory shared 70 years ago - the Schwinger effect - was correct.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

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NASA has updated the Eyes on the Solar System website weeks before its Artemis I mission launches.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

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India’s first human space-flight mission Gaganyaan is expected to launch in 2024, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said. The government had planned the space flight for 2021, but the schedule got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Blue Origin rocket has failed mid-flight shortly after its lift-off a day ago. This has caused the rocket to abort its cargo capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert. The rocket aimed to send NASA-funded experiments and other payloads to the edge of the space. The booster crashed within the designated hazard area.

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Monday, September 12, 2022

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An important repair for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been completed by NASA. The leaky seals on the SLS were replaced by engineers last week. One of the fuel lines to the SLS started leaking earlier this month forcing the space agency to halt its attempt to launch Artemis I.

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

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NASA may attempt to launch its Artemis I Moon rocket for the third time on September 23. The US space agency could launch the Artemis I SLS-Orion spacecraft on either September 23 or on September 27, according to a report. It previously halted the launch of the rocket for the second time, due to a fuel leak on September 3.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured in-depth details of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. Webb’s recent image displays several never-before-seen young, with galaxies in background. The picture also reveals the composition of the nebula’s gas and dust.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

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The apparel line uses NASA-funded Outlast technology to maintain its ability to regulate body temperature.

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Monday, September 5, 2022

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The next Rocket that ISRO builds after the GSLV-MK3 could be a reusable rocket, said ISRO Chairman S Somanath. The space agency has been working on various technologies including the Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD). By combining the new technologies, the space agency would like to join hands with industry, startups and its commercial arm NewSpace India Limit...

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

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NASA on Saturday stated that its next Artemis I SLS-Orion spacecraft launch may not take place this month. While the current launch window ends on September 6, the next possible launch window is September 19 to October 4. If NASA is unable to make a third attempt at launching the rocket by then, the next window will be October 17 to October 31.

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Friday, September 2, 2022

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Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad-based space startup said on Friday that it raised $51 millon (roughly Rs. 400 crore) in funding from GIC, a Singapore-based capital investment firm. The startup is looking to use the funding to build the country's first private space launch vehicles and launch heavy payloads into low-Earth orbit by mid-2023.

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After the Artemis I launch was halted on August 29, NASA rescheduled the launch to the Moon for September 3. The launch event will be livestreamed via NASA’s official YouTube channel, and also via various social media platforms. The launch coverage will begin at 5:45am EDT or 3:15pm IST with tanking operations. Here’s how you watch the Artemis I live stream onlin...

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Thursday, September 1, 2022

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A piece of digital artwork that won first place in a fine art competition has prompted discussion on social media about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist.

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NASA has announced to award five new missions to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). These five crewed missions by SpaceX to ISS will be launched by the end of the decade. NASA has signed a $1.4 billion (nearly Rs, 11,140 crore) contract with SpaceX for these missions.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

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A team of researchers have developed a method to help explore the darkest areas of the Moon that never receive sunlight. These are some of the coldest locations on the Earth's only natural satellite, and could contain ice which could be useful for future space missions. Researchers used a deep learning-driven post-processing tool and produced high-resolution and high-...

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NASA's JWST has captured an image of a star located around 5,600 light-years away in detail, which shows the celestial body surrounded by large concentric circles of light. The pair, known as colliding wind binary, consists of an extremely rare Wolf-Rayet star called WR 140 and a hot and massive O-type star companion, which is also a rare object.

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A team of researchers at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel have developed nanometric diamond particles that could be used for medical and cosmetic remedies through the skin. The researchers also claimed the development of a safe laser-based optical method, which is capable of quantifying nanodiamond penetration into the various layers of the skin.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is set to make its second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket this Saturday. The uncrewed mission which is dubbed Artemis 1 will bring the United States closer to returning astronauts to the Moon after five decades.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

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The oldest visible planetary nebula has been discovered by astronomers inside a 500-million-year-old galactic open cluster. These planetary nebulas are glowing shrouds ejected from dying stars, which present a spectacular sight. Believed to be of high astrophysical value, the rare celestial jewel has been discovered inside a cluster called M37 and is said to have a ki...

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Greenland's ice sheet is reportedly losing ice faster than previously estimated. A new report claims that it is destined to lose over 100 million metric tons of ice before re-establishing balance with the prevailing Arctic climate.

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Researchers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) telescope to peer into the spectacular Phantom Galaxy, also known as M74. The galaxy is located around 32 million light-years away and could help us understand the origin and structure of galactic spirals.

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Astronomers from Guangzhou University in China have used data from a range of X-ray observatories while covering a time period of 200 days. They tried to identify the high-energy signatures that are expected to be detected in a close supermassive black hole binary or a decaying orbit.

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A new study suggests that the nature of gravity has remained constant for the entire history of the universe. To make things clearer, researchers from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration have used the Cerro Telolo Inter-American Observatory's Victor M. Blanco 4-metre telescope in Chile and observed galaxies up to 5 billion light-years away.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

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A technology to move and levitate objects using just sound waves has been developed by researchers. The technique was demonstrated on small polystyrene balls that were lifted off a reflective surface without any physical contact. The reseachers fine-tuned the so-called acoustic tweezers using an adaptive algorithm and further miniaturisation, to make the technology mo...

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Scientists are using data sonification, the process of converting data into sound, to understand space at a deeper level. Its use as a tool in science is still in its early stages, but astronomy groups are leading the way. A new paper, published in Nature Astronomy, discusses the current state of data sonification in astronomy and other fields, and provides an overvie...

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Robotic IVC thrombectomy is a highly safe and effective alternative approach, according to a study by researchers at the Mays Cancer Center and Department of Urology at UT Health San Antonio. The surgical alternative to the open IVC process, involves the removal of cancer from the vena cava vein. Patients whose surgery was carried out using the robotic method develope...

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Researchers have discovered an image of a black hole in the M87 galaxy contains a photon ring that was not previously visible. The first-ever picture of a black hole was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2019. When a beam of light passes close to the black hole, it tends to change its direction due to the warping of spacetime. The blurry image of the...

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A team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde have discovered a method to mould matter into complex shapes that involves the usage of “twisted” light. The new technique builds on the temperature-sensitive property of atoms. When atoms are cooled till, or close to, the absolute zero temperatures (-273 degrees Celsius), they stop behaving like particles an...

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently shared an "intriguing" daylight sight of a bright dot in the middle of a desert on Earth.

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Saturday, August 27, 2022

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Artemis I will launch on August 29. The combined SLS-Orion spacecraft will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to send an uncrewed capsule around the Moon and back to Earth on a six-week test flight called Artemis I.

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NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope has discovered more water on the Moon's surface. The fresh findings of water have been made in the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon. The team have discovered water in the Moretus Crater region, which is close to the Moon's Clavius Crater, where the original findings were made.

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A new study, by researchers at the University of California, attempted to measure the dream during REM sleep through the electrical activity of a sleeping brain. It proved that eye movements during REM sleep may disclose gaze shifts in the virtual world of dreams, providing a window into the cognitive processes happening in the dream.

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Friday, August 26, 2022

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A new study suggests that even if we achieve the goal set up by the Paris Agreement, tropics and subtropics regions will experience dangerously sweltering temperatures during most days of the year by 2100. The countries in these regions include India, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. The evidence has been spotted on the exoplanet WASP-39 b, which was discovered in 2011.

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Scientists have developed synthetic mouse embryos from stem cells. The model embryos feature beating hearts and even foundations for the brain and other organs of a mouse's body. The achievement is likely to help researchers unravel why some embryos successfully develop into a foetus while others fail to do so.

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In its latest discovery, the NASA's Perseverance rover has found that the floor of the crater, which once hosted a lake billion years ago, is made up of volcanic rocks rather than sedimentary rocks, as believed earlier. The rover started examining the floor in the spring of 2021, after which scientists studied the data. It was found that the floor was formed by two ty...

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T-Mobile plans to use Starlink satellites to give mobile users Internet access in remote parts of the United States. The US wireless carrier plans to connect users’ smartphones directly to the satellites in the orbit thereby cutting out the need for cell towers.

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

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Researchers have discovered the fossil of a new species of mosasaurs named Thalassotitan atrox. Mosasaurs were like giant marine lizards that could grow up to 12 metres in length. They were distant relatives of modern monitor lizards and iguanas and looked similar to a Komodo dragon.

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An engineer, from the US space agency NASA, has developed a tiny yet high-powered laser that can help locate water sources on our Lunar neighbour. This laser can be used to develop an instrument called a heterodyne spectrometer, which would be capable of zooming in on particular frequencies and confirming the presence of water on the surface of the Moon.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

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A team of researchers have recently discovered a planet about 100 light years away from Earth that they believe could be completely covered in water. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the planet - called TOI-1452 b - is believed to be 70% larger than Earth and is located in a "Goldilocks zone," where temperatures are neither too ho...

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Astrophotographers have captured one of the most detailed images of the Moon so far. Both astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and planetary scientist Connor Matherne, spent over 9 months editing the image, after clicking over 2 lakh photos of the Moon and meticulously stitching thenm .

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A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), have created a simulation engine capable of creating photorealistic environments to train AI for autonomous vehicles (AVs) which can be used for very realistic locations used to train the AVs.

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Scientists have utilised data collected over a decade by NASA and the ESA to generate a water map of the Red Planet. The high-resolution map reveals locations of aqueous minerals, whil providing hints at ancient traces of water on Mars. It could also help plan future mars missions

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

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Artemis I is being readied for launch on August 29, as NASA prepares the for its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center. The US space agency is readying for the next generation of space travel, as it prepares to send humans to the Moon after its Apollo missions.

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Researchers from the CUNY Graduate Center's Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences (ITS) have looked for ways to decompose the arrow of time by observing specific parts of the system and the interactions between them. The study sheds light on the concept of the arrow of time, which defines the unidirectional flow of time.

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A team of researchers have demonstrated that water splits into two different liquids under low temperatures. This new kind of phase transition in the water was first proposed in a study 30 years ago, and has now been demonstrated in a new study by a team from the University of Birmingham that used a computer simulation to show the high-density and low-desity liquid ob...

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To reveal the unique memory property of the compound, the team conducted experiments and observed that VO2 could memorise the entire history of previous stimuli. The team noted that VO2 was capable of storing some kind of information in the recently applied current for at least three hours. According to Matioli, it could store the information for longer but the team l...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured some intriguing photos of Jupiter. Apart from powerful winds and giant storms, the new images also feature some magnificent auroras on the gas giant. The pictures offer some intricate details of Jupiter that scientists think may shed more light on its inner life.

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Monday, August 22, 2022

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An electrochemical sensing device has been developed to monitor lithium levels in patients, which could help keep track of patients' medication intake. The sensor uses a water-based gel containing glycerol to detect charged particles of lithium in the sweat which usually is present in minute amounts. The results showed that the measurement fell were close to those der...

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Hawaii has introduced legislation to protect the sacred Mauna Kea summit future generations that also says science must be balanced with culture and the environment. The mountain that is sacred to Native Hawaiians is also one of the finest places in the world to study the night sky. A new authority to govern the use of the land may offer a first-in-the-world test case...

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Friday, August 19, 2022

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Elon Musk has approached brain chip implant developer Synchron about a potential investment as his own company Neuralink plays catch-up in the race to connect the human brain directly to machines, according to four people familiar with the matter.

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Hair growth in the human body can be stimulated with a new molecule, according to a team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine. A signalling molecule that stimulates and acts as an activating agent contributing to hair growth has been discovered.

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Researchers have discovered a method of breaking down PFAS or perfluoroalkyl chemicals, also known as "forever chemicals" that have been in use as a waterproofing and nonstick agent for more than 70 years. The new technique could be used to successfully degrade 10 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) and perfluoroalkyl ether carboxylic acids (PFECAs).

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A team of researchers have created a 3D model of a megalodon, one of the believed to be the largest shark that ever roamed the Earth's waters. For the modeling, a team of researchers in collaboration with the University of Zurich (UZH) used the specimen of an individual megalodon which was discovered back in the 1860s. It was believed to have died in Belgium's Miocene...

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A study has discovered that cutting salt intake by 1 gram daily is enough to prevent roughly 9 million cases of heart attack and stroke, saving four million lives by 2030. According to World Health Organization, one must keep the daily salt consumption below 5 grams to keep such diseases at bay, but some regions like China have a daily average intake of 11 grams of s...

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Researchers have uncovered evidence of anti-vaccine groups thriving on Facebook and other social media platforms, as the tech industry struggles to keep disinformation in check. Law enforcement and extremism researchers say there’s evidence that far-right groups are using scepticism about COVID-19 and vaccines to expand their reach.

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A provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting and building signs to save energy, official announcements said, as the area battles a power crunch triggered by record-high temperatures.

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

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R136a1, a massive star with a mass around 150 or 200 times the Sun, has been observed in great detail, along with other stars in the cluster. The images from Gemini South's Zorro instrument have provided scientists with the clearest images of the star so far, which suggest it may not be as massive as previously thought.

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A mysterious asteroid impact crater have been spotted on the seafloor which is believed to have formed at the same time when dinosaurs were wiped out from the planet. This could mean that not one, but two asteroid impacts were behind the extinction of dinosaurs.

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A team of researchers has produced a new plasma-based method through which the resources available in the Martian environment can be utilised to make oxygen. The method would not only allow astronauts to breathe on the planet during future Mars missions, but could also help make fuel, building materials, and fertilisers there.

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A NeuRRAM chip, or a neuromorphic chip, has been created by scientists in order to run AI applications by performing computations directly in memory. The chip does not require a network connection to the cloud to do so and consumes a small amount of energy. The newly discovered chip may allow for AI usage across a range of edge devices.

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

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The researchers used 10 atomic ions of an element called ytterbium, that were pulsed with laser sequence based on Fibonacci numbers to create a new phase of matter that acts like it has two dimensions. The research could help in the development of quantum computers that are capable of holding data for a long time without distortion.

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A team of space medicine experts investigating the possibility of a human landing on Mars, have proposed a mathematical model that could be used to predict if an astronaut can safely reach Mars and carry out missions. The researchers simulated the impact of prolonged exposure to zero gravity on the cardiovascular system through the model.to study whether a human body ...

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NTPC Limited announced on Wednesday that it had achieved 69454 MW of group installed and commercial capacity. The country's largest integrated energy company commissioned its 56 MW Kawas Solar PV Project at NTPC Kawas, Gujarat on Monday. The Ministry of Power in a statement said that NTPC is steadily lowering its carbon footprint by reducing greenhouse gas emissions t...

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Last year in August, a group of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California conducted a landmark experiment that yielded more than 1.3 megajoules of energy. It was confirmed to be a nuclear fusion reaction that was energetic enough to sustain itself. However, since that day, the team has been busy conducting a series of experiments in a bid ...

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In s new study, researchers have tried to unravel what the signal from aJupiter-like planet be like. They have developed a model of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and applied it to a planetary system called HD 189733. They have simulated the interaction between the star's stellar wind and the planet's magnetic field and performed calculations around the planet's radio sig...

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

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Scientists in China have broken all previous records, to generate the strongest steady magnetic field in the world. The record was set at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in the Chinese city of Hefei. The system relies on a hybrid magnet that was developed in 2016. Scientists have been working on the magnet, gradually making it stronger, from its origi...

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Nuclear conflict could wipe out over 5 billion people due to starvation if a modern full-scale war were to occur between two superpowers. Researchers at Rutgers University calculated the amount of soot that would be injected into the atmosphere due to the detonation of nuclear weapons. Here's what the study discovered about the threats to humankind posed by nuclear wa...

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Russia's space agency Roskosmos on Monday unveiled the first physical model of what a planned new Russian-built space station will look like. This has further fueled speculations about Russia’s decision to abandon the International Space Station (ISS) and going solo. The model of the planned space station, dubbed "ROSS" by Russian state media, was unveiled at a mili...

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Asteroids from the outer edges of the solar system may have brought water to Earth, claim scientists after analysing rare samples collected on a six-year Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2. The researchers are scrutinising material brought back to earth in 2020 from the asteroid Ryugu.

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The heatwaves will now be given male and female names alternately and weather experts will go in the reverse alphabetical order for this. Hence, Zoe is the first name to be chosen.

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In an in-depth analysis conducted by a team of Japanese researchers at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), it is found that the Ryugu samples brought on Earth in December 2020 by the Japanese aircraft Hayabusa-2 are the most “uncontaminated” samples. This will help scientists get a crystal-clear insight into the chemistry of the particl...

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Saturday, August 13, 2022

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Researchers have used a new CRISPR technology that enables them to control these microglia cells. This, according to the team, can lead to a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The team geared up to detect the genes that were responsible for specific states of the microglial activity. With this, they could switch the genes on and off and put the disl...

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Researchers from Duke University have created the first gel-based substitute for natural cartilage, which, according to them, is more durable than the original. The hydrogel material is made of water and absorbing materials, and can effectively resist wear and tear up to three times more than the natural cartilage.

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In a new study, scientists have discovered a long-hidden secret that might now help in making plants survive even using less water. They have noted that when the humidity level dropped outside the leaf, the relative humidity in the air space inside also witnessed a decline, which was sometimes as low as 80 percent. However, it was also observed that despite the drop i...

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According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of California San Diego, Mars' subsurface has little to no evidence of water. The surprising results were derived after studying the seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath the landing site.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched new batch of Starlink satellites into low-orbit Earth on Friday. The Falcon 9 rocket launched with 46 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The new satellites are part of Group 3, which orbits in a shell that might be prone to debris "squalls" from a Russian anti-satellit...

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In a new study, a research team used the artificial womb to grow natural mouse embryos (fertilised from sperm and eggs), which lived for 11 days. The lab-created womb, or external uterus, was a breakthrough in itself as embryos could not survive in petri dishes. scientists started with collections of stem cells. The conditions created by the external uterus triggered ...

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Friday, August 12, 2022

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Betelgeuse, an aging star that lost a chunk of its visible surface in 2019, is healing with time, astronomers say. The star will eventually explode into a supernova. The recent observations give a glimpse into how red stars lose mass in the later years of their lifespan.

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a human-made analog synapse that can run 1 million times faster than the biological ones in the human brain. The researchers used programmable resistors in repeating arrays to create a complex layered network of artificial neurons and synapses, which executed computations just like ...

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A recent study has suggested that the Moon may have inherited some noble gases, such as neon and helium, deep from the Earth's mantle. The discovery was made by analysing lunar meteorites found in Antarctica. Upon analysing the glass particles, the team found chemical fingerprints or isotopic signatures of the solar gases in them.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX and European Space Agency (ESA) have begun preliminary technical discussions to temporarily use the company’s launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access to Russia's Soyuz rockets. The final decision depends on the still unresolved timetable for Europe's delayed Ariane 6 rocket.

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A new project by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) aim sat peering into the most elusive galaxies in the universe. This is likely to help astronomers paint a clearer and more comprehensive picture of the universe's history of star formation. The instrument will also help detect those galaxies that are too dim and are obscured by cosmic dust.

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A research team led by UCL has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) programme that can identify minute brain anomalies that lead to epileptic seizures. The algorithm reports the locations of abnormalities in cases of drug-resistant focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a major cause of epilepsy.

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A new study has suggested that the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the world over the past 43 years. This means the Arctic is on average around 3 degree Celsius warmer than it was in 1980. The Arctic sea ice is covered in a bright layer of snow which reflects around 85% of incoming solar radiation back out to space.

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Thursday, August 11, 2022

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The first of the small satellites to be used in NASA's SunRISE, or Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, have been completed at Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL). The SDL has been contracted by the American space agency to build, test, and commission all six satellites for the mission to detect and track hazardous explosive space weather even...

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

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Rocket parts that are often left in orbit during space launches may have a six to 10 percent chance to injure or kill humans in the next decade, claims a study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada. If the leftover rocket parts have a low enough orbit, they can re-enter the atmosphere in an uncontrolled way.

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Phytoplankton are an important part of the food web, and are widely considered the foundation of all life on the planet. Scientists have now incporporated the day/night (diel) light cycle to understand how they get their energy at the base of the food web, in order to better understand the interactions of the rest of the global ocean food web.

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Iran has dismissed the US claims suggesting that the country launched Khayyam satellite with an intent to spy. According to the US, Russia's growing cooperation with Iran should be viewed as a "profound threat". Iran earlier said that Khayyam satellite is designed and built to meet the needs of the country in crisis and urban management, natural resources, mines, and ...

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are conducting biology experiments aimed at studying how skin heals in space. The study could benefit both astronauts in space, and human life on Earth. The US space agency's Expedition 67 mission began in March this year and is aimed at conducting research and investigations that will facilitate human spaceflight bey...

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NASA will send a tiny surgical robot to space for a test mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014. The robot named MIRA or miniaturised in vivo robotic assistant has been in the making for nearly 20 years by the researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Thunderstorm lighting can also strike upwards from the clouds and the phenomena are called the gigantic jets. Unraveling this, scientists conducted a detailed 3D study of the massive Oklahoma electrical discharge that took place on May 14, 2018. It is considered to be the most powerful gigantic jet studied so far.

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Three workers at a Google Data Centre in Iowa, the United States, were injured in an explosion, according to a report in Newsweek. The three workers - all electricians - were transported to the local hospital after suffering severe burns, the outlet further said.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2022

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The space prediction centre of American agency National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has spotted a fresh geomagnetic storm on the Sun's surface that will have some effect on life on Earth.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a region of colourful dust and gas clouds encircling an HH 505 or a Herbig-Haro object in the Orion Nebula. Herbig-Haro objects, which are bright regions surrounding young stars, are created when stellar winds or jets of gas emitted by these stars collide violently with neighbouring gas and dust.

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American Space Agency NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of a comet disintegrating as it approached the Sun.

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Researchers have discovered a mechanism through which hydrogen peroxide can be generated from rocks under the Earth's surface during the movement of geological faults. The oxygen source could have influenced the early evolution of life on Earth when photosynthesis wasn't there, according to the researchers.

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Experts are divided on the climate change's impact on sea turtle species' survival. The sea turtles' sex is influenced by the sand's temperature where the eggs are buried. Male sea turtles are already a minority, outnumbered by about 10 to 1. And as the sand heats up, fewer and fewer males begin to grow.

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Russian space agency Roscosmos has launched Soyuz-2.1b Rocket Carrying Iranian Satellite Khayyam. The Russian mission control has also confirmed its subsequent entry into orbit. The development comes amid controversy that Moscow might use the satellite to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine.

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Monday, August 8, 2022

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The length of a day on Earth is increasing, according to atomic clocks and precise astronomical measurements. Scientists have no idea why days are getting longer on the planet, a phenomenon that could impact not just timekeeping but also technology like GPS. Over millions of years, Earth’s rotation has been slowing down due to friction effects associated with the ti...

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A Singapore-based research team has developed a methodical and effective 3D food printing technique to solve issues with the food supply. Alternative proteins may eventually replace animal proteins as the primary source of protein consumed by humans, according to a researcher from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The study found a way to c...

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NASA's Curiosity rover launched on November 26, 2011, and made its descent on the Martian surface on August 5, 2012. The rover has so far covered 29 kilometres and ascended 625 metres on the Gale crater, where it landed.

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In a study led by the University of Bonn and the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland), astronomers suggest that the dark matter halos are absent from the dwarf galaxies in the Fornax Cluster, the second closest galaxy cluster to Earth. The findings were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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A recent study found only 10 per cent of current wearable technologies for autistic people addressed their needs. Emotional regulation technology in smartwatches that detect physiological stress signals and prompts users to start coping techniques can be more beneficial to people who suffer from autism.

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Sunday, August 7, 2022

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) on Sunday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota. However, the rocket places satellites into an elliptical orbit instead of a circular one. According to the ISRO, the satellites are no longer usable.

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Saturday, August 6, 2022

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A study, by bioengineers at the University of Notre Dame, talks about a new strategy that can restore damaged stem cells, and enable them to grow new tissues again. Under the new strategy, each damaged stem cell is given a nanoparticle backpack.

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Scientists had attributed the fall of several ancient civilizations including the Akkadian Empire, the Old Kingdom of Egypt, to factors like climate change and shifting allegiances. However, a new study proposes that this could be due to some extinct pathogens.

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Fusing wearable technology with artificial intelligence, researchers, at the University of Chicago, have developed a flexible stretchy device that records heath data and processes by mimicking the functioning of a human brain.

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A mysterious object from space crashed into the ocean off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014. Called the CNEOS 2014-01-08, the meteorite has still kept scientists puzzled about its origin but initially, it was speculated that it could be an interstellar object. Now, researchers are chalking up plans to scan the ocean floor for the object.

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Friday, August 5, 2022

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Researchers have found a way to capture millimetre-wavelength light originating from a collision of a neutron star with another star. The flash emerging from this collision was among the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed, according to the researchers.

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Stem cells can be used to create a "synthetic embryo" without using a sperm, eggs, or a womb, according to scientists. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science were able to create an artificial embryo using only stem celll from mice. These synthetic embryos grew normally until day 8.5 when the early organ progenitors are formed such as heartbeat, blood stem ce...

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Scientists at Caltech have discovered four exoplanets — TOI 560b, TOI 1430.01, TOI 1683.01, and TOI 2076b – that appear to be shrinking in size and losing their atmosphere gradually. The rate at which this change is taking place suggests that these celestial bodies, called mini-Neptunes, will eventually lose their atmosphere completely to become a terrestrial plan...

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

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Twitter on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk's claims in a Delaware court filing that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was "implausible and contrary to fact."

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Reseachers have developed a nanostructured high-entropy alloy that is far more ductile and stronger than other state-of-the-art additively manufactured materials. Created by researchers at from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Georgia Institute of Technology, the material could pave way for building higher-performance components used in aerospace, energ...

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NASA and the White House are said to have drawn up plans to deal with contingencies related to Russian participation on the International Space Station since late last year. The US space agency which is involved with firms like Boeing, SpaceX and Northrup Grumman, is also juggling its relationship with Russia in space, amid the ongoing Ukraine crisis.

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The next full moon and the last supermoon of this year will appear on Thursday, August 11, reaching its peak at 9:36pm EDT, as per Space.com. Accordingly, in India, it will be visible on Friday, August 12.

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A recent study has revealed that warmer water in the ocean is moving towards the East Antarctic ice sheets and is likely to accelerate the rise in global sea level. This, according to experts, will damage the marine life and threaten human coastal settlements.

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The Perseid meteor showers are set to occur on August 12 and August 13 this year, according to NASA. However, the brightness of the full Moon may affect visibility of the Perseids this year, the space agency says. Here's everything you need to know about the celestial phenomenon ahead of their appearance this month.

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Just hours into Lucy's 12-year journey in October 2021, the first-ever Trojan asteroids mission met an unexpected challenge. Data showed that one of Lucy's solar arrays, which is intended to unfold like a hand fan and power the spacecraft's systems, hadn't fully expanded and locked. To troubleshoot the issue, teams from NASA and Lucy mission partners promptly gathered...

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A SpaceX debris has been found at an Australian sheep paddock by a local farmer. The Australia's space agency has confirmed the debris had come from one of Elon Musk's missions and told locals to report any further finds to SpaceX. The piece is believed to be a part of a trunk jettisoned by the earlier Crew-1 capsule when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere in 2021.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

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The Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano that erupted in the South Pacific in January injected 1,60,900 tonnes of additional water vapour into the stratosphere, according to researchers. The excess water vapour could heat up the planet for several years, a new study reveals.

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A new study, based on cocaine-seeking in rats, discovered that inhibiting certain acetylcholine receptors made it more difficult to resist cocaine-seeking urges. These receptors are located in the lateral habenula (LHb), a region of the brain that balances reward and aversion. The study was carried out by the National Institutes of Health under the National Institute ...

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In a new study, researchers have applied the first principle of quantum chemical calculations to predict the mid-infrared signatures of the ionised forms of fullerene. The team has noted that some positively charged fullerenes have strong emission bands that substantially match with the position of key astronomical UIE emission features at 11.21, 16.40 and 20-21 micro...

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A geomarnetic storm, or solar storm, is headed towards Earth and is predicted to hit the planet today. It has been classified as G1, which means it is mild, the geomagnetic storm is unlikely to cause any damage to life on Earth. However, it can still affect power grids and impact some satellite functions such as those used for GPS systems and mobile devices.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, the US soace agency said in a joint statement with the European Space Agency on Tuesday. The Cartwheel gained its shape during a spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, and is located around 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor.

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Researchers looked at the makeup of the dark matter that surrounds galaxies as they appeared 12 billion years ago, to observe dark matter from the farthest reaches of the universe. Distant galaxies are observed as they existed billions of years in the past, due to the finite speed of light.

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Researchers have developed a method to image atoms 'swimming' in liquid, using a technique called transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The process usually requires high vacuum conditions, but the scientists were able to develop a method to image these atoms in situ in liquid and gaseous environments.

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NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an intriguing picture of Mars. Taken near the centre of the Gamboa Crater on the Red Planet, the image features some blue ripples on the planet with red surface. According to NASA, the picture is called a false-colour image that helps scientists learn about the weather and geology.

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James Webb Space Telescope have identified a galaxy 35 billion light-years away from the Earth. Researchers speculate that this galaxy, a far-off red blob, might be the furthest ever spotted. According to the research, the CEERS-93316 galaxy originally appeared barely 235 million years after the Big Bang, an event that created the universe's first stars and galaxies 1...

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NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charon's winter hemispher...

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ISRO is all set to launch its new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on August 7. The launch, scheduled for 9:18am IST is open for the public to witness through ISRO's Launch Viewers gallery. The ground testing of the newly developed solid booster stage (SS1) was carried out on March 14.

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A new study conducted by UCL researchers has found that using smartphones, smartwatches and other digital devices can improve the memory skills of a person. For the test, the team developed a memory task for 158 volunteers aged between 18 and 71. It was found that using a digital device as external memory helps people to remember the information saved, as well as unsa...

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Monday, August 1, 2022

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Researchers have developed a battery that is cheap to assemble, biodegradable and made of renewable materials. The new battery is water-activated, disposable, and could significantly reduce the amount of electrical trash produced by single-use devices, including those used in the medical and industrial sectors.

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A team of researchers from the University of Washington developed a tool that can design a passive gripper that is 3D-printed and can determine the most effective way to pick up an object. The gripper could help robots in factories easily pick up various kinds of objects without altering their shape, like the tongs on a forklift, to reduce costs.

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Research by a professor emeritus in Japan has revealed that mass extinctions increase in proportion to climate change. The evidence revealed by the study shows a high correlation between the size of mass extinctions and historical fluctuations in the Earth's temperature.

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Researchers have developed a new pressure sensing technology for robotics systems that could one day help transform prosthetics and robotic limbs. The new project to create innovative sensors for use in robotic systems, with accurate pressure sensors capable of delivering more tactile ability to allow robots to function to their full capacity.

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A robot created at Standford University in the United States is diving down to shipwrecks and sunken planes and allowing its operators to feel like they’re underwater explorers too.

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Sunday, July 31, 2022

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The Chinese rocket Long March 5B fell back to Earth on Saturday, while social media users in Malaysia shared a video of what appeared to be rocket debris falling from the sky. According to NASA, the rocket had re-entered over the Indian Ocean, but said that China had failed to share "specific trajectory information" and referred questions about "reentry’s technical ...

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Friday, July 29, 2022

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SpaceX has sought permission from the US FCC to add a modular payload to Starlink satellite constellation in order to provide high-speed internet to mobiles phones in near future.

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Researchers from the Oregon State University have revealed that the damaging effects of the blue light emanating from bright displays worsen as one gets older. To reach the conclusion, the team conducted an experiment on Drosophila melanogaster or the common fruit fly.

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Scientists have worked out how to turn dead spiders into "necrobotic spiders" that can mechanically grip objects.

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NASA is planning to launch two helicopters to collect 30 Martian rock samples and bring them back to Earth. The lander carrying helicopters is planned to launch in 2028 and land on Mars in mid-2030. Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover has so far collected 11 samples as part of its hunt for signatures of ancient life.

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Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered a new set of chemical reactions that can produce the building blocks of life. They have found a set of chemical reactions that can produce amino acids and nucleic acids — the building blocks of proteins and DNA — by using cyanide, ammonia, and carbon dioxide.

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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have aimed to solve the issue of limited access to bulky ultrasound machines. They developed a small sticker that sticks to the skin and provides ultrasound imaging continuously for 48 hours. Currently, this is done using sophisticated and heavy equipment that requires specialised technicians.

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered a phenomenal picture of the Jupiter surface. The shot features fascinating vortices or hurricane-like spiral wind patterns forming near Jupiter's north pole. The Juno mission flew past close to Jupiter on July 5 this year. It clicked the striking photo using its JunoCam instrument.

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A debris from China's Long March 5B rocket is heading towards Earth. However, the experts are yet to determine the landing site. The object may enter Earth's atmosphere next week on July 31. The remnants of the rocket are less likely to cause any damage in case they hit Earth.

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Analogue deep learning, a new branch of artificial intelligence, could help the development of faster, more energy efficient computation for AI. A multidisciplinary team of researched at MIT attempted to push the speed limits of a type of human-made analogue synapse that they had previously developed, by using a practical inorganic material in the fabrication process....

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