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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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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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Researchers from the University of Rochester, New York, have analysed ancient rock crystals to reveal two important dates in the history of the inner core of Earth. The first was 550 million years ago, when the magnetic field began to rejuvenate. The second important date was found to be 440 million years ago, when the structure of the growing inner core changed.

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Researchers at National University of Singapore have implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography which would make the encryption immune to hacking. In the new study, scientists conducted an experiment where they used two mechanically entangled rubidium atoms. They excited both particles with a laser pulse and after which they fell into their ground state whil...

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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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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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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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Google's former chief executive Eric Schmidt recently compared artificial intelligence (AI) to nuclear weapons. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, Mr Schmidt discussed his role at Google and the developments that were happening 20 years ago.

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The United States voiced regret over Russia's announcement to exit the International Space Station after 2024. NASA too plans to retire the ISS after 2030.

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General Motors has lost lost $500 million (INR value) on Cruise during the second quarter, soon after the company started charging for rides in San Francisco. The company has lost nearly $5 billion since 2018 while working towards building a robotaxi business in San Francisco.

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Researchers have recently observed a collapsed dense neutron star shredding and devouring its stellar companion to become one of the heaviest neutron stars ever spotted. The star has a mass 2.35 times that of the Sun and spins at a speed of 707 rounds per second. The finding may now give astronomers an insight into the weird quantum state of matter inside such dense o...

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Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a molecular electric motor made of genetic material that can convert electric energy into kinetic energy. The team used the DNA origami method to create the nanomotors which can self-assemble and whose motion can be controlled.

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Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method that to help multiple robots work together using artificial intelligence (AI) and complete tasks. Using multi-agent reinforcement learning, individual agents like drones and robots can often work together collaborate and complete a task when communication lines are open. The new AI techn...

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Russia will quit the International Space Station (ISS) "after 2024", the country’s newly appointed space agency chief said on Tuesday. Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998. Former deputy prime minister Yury Borisov, the new head of Roscosmos, said the country would put together a Russian orbital station...

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Space debris has been known to cause injury and damage to property, even though no one is known to have died from an accident involving “space junk”. However, with the increasing number of satellites, rockets and probes being launched into space, researchers have investigated the risk of someone being killed by space debris. Here’s what they discovered about the...

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Scientists at Rice University in the United States have figured out how to hack the brains of fruit flies in order to make them remote-controlled. This breakthrough represents the "holy grail" of neurotechnologies as the science could be used in everything from treating diseases to developing brain-machine interfaces, the researchers said. 

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Scientists have uncovered why Jupiter does not have rings like its neighbouring planet Saturn. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, ran a computer simulation of both Jupiter's orbits and the four main moons that surrounded it to understand why the giant gaseous planet is missing the hoops. 

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During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, delivering COVID-19 home testing kits have helped to reduce the spread of the virus. However, delivering these kits could also carry a certain level of risk. Researchers at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health have come up with a method for drones to deliver COVID-19 testing kits aboard trucks, which could help cut the...

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Chinese astronauts boarded the country’s space laboratory, Wentian, hours after it docked with the under-construction space station on Sunday. The country has succeeded in sending its largest-ever spacecraft into Earth's orbit to become part of the space station named Tiangong, while the Mengtian module will be launched in October, and the three astronauts who were ...

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A unique mattress and pillow system that uses heating and cooling to trick the human body into sleeping has been developed by engineers in the United States. The team has a patent for the cooling-warming mattress and pillow technology and is seeking partnerships with companies to commercialise it. 

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India's space sector startups are looking forward to the new space policy for easier access to finance and clarity on issues related to liability in case of untoward incidents.

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An Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) study has come out with a model using facial recognition technology for stray cows to link them with donors to achieve "Gai Aadharit Unnati (GAU)," or cow-based development.

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Computers could be trained using artificial explosion signals, to help them better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions. Infrasound is at a frequency too low to be heard by humans and travels farther than high-frequency audible waves. As explosions haven't occurred at every location on the planet and the atmosphere constantly chang...

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China launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, on Sunday. Wentian, the second module after Tianhe, weighs 23 tons and was launched on the back of the country’s most powerful rocket, the Long March 5B. China began constructing the space station in April 2021 with the launch of the Tianhe module, the main living quarters, in the first of 11...

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Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a method that allows detecting light from the earliest stars by peering through clouds of hydrogen. Astronomers have aimed to detect a signal that would be a thousand times weaker than other radio signals. Here, using a radio telescope to trace the signal would result in distortions in the observation.

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James Webb telescope was constructed by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp and was launched to space for NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts in December 2021.

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In what may lead to the development of new treatments for heart diseases, researchers have created a novel artificial intelligence (AI) technique that can detect plaque erosion in heart arteries. The technique uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) images to monitor arterial plaque.

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Researchers, at McMaster University, have successfully reconstructed the first ancient genome of E.coli by using the gallstone of a 16th-century Italian mummy. The team analysed the mummy of one of the nobles who is believed to have died in 1586 at the age of 48.

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The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has captured images of portions of the Martian Valles Marineris, the largest system of canyons in the Solar System. Valles Marineris, like many other geological features on the red planet, dwarfs all terrestrial analogues.

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After capturing the deepest and sharpest infrared picture of the distant universe, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has inspired some captivating photos, formed using its data.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX on Friday broke its record for the number of rockets launched in a calendar year, topping last year's slate of 31 missions amid a whirlwind campaign to launch its own internet satellites into orbit.

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A new study reveals that new surveys are increasingly detecting new Near-Earth objects, including asteroids, that were previously hidden due to the glare of the Sun. These telescopic surveys are braving the Sun’s glare and searching for asteroids toward the Sun during twilight, unlike previous surveys that had a 'blind spot' for these celestial objects.

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Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a method that allows detecting light from the earliest stars by peering through clouds of hydrogen. Astronomers have aimed to detect a signal that would be a thousand times weaker than other radio signals. Here, using a radio telescope to trace the signal would result in distortions in the observation.

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Northvolt will partner with forestry company Stora Enso to develop batteries from a forestry byproduct called lignin, according to the firms. The material, which is a part of wood binding tree fibres together that would previously be burned, it could be turned into new products. Northvolt plans to turn an old Swedish paper mill it bought from Stora and turn it into a ...

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NASA has chosen engineering Draper Labs of Massachusetts for delivering Artemis science investigations to the far side of the moon in 2025. Draper will be using its SERIES-2 lander to carry the load. It has been tasked with end-to-end delivery services that include payload integration, delivery from Earth to the Moon, and payload operations.

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James Webb telescope was constructed by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp and was launched to space for NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts in December 2021.

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Taking inspiration from Octopuses, researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a special glove that allows to securely grip objects underwater. Holding things underwater with our land-dwelling fingers is not easy and while we are equipped with instruments like neoprene suits to protect our bodies underwater, our hands lack any such tool that gives us good grip over sl...

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A video has surfaced on YouTube where a massive prominence can be seen on the Sun. It is so big that many users say the Sun appears to be breaking apart. The video also shows the prominence in motion along with an eruption of solar flare.

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The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope by NASA, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has suffered massive damage from an asteroid strike in May. 

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An image of a gravitationally lensed galaxy was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It featured a mirror image of the galaxy in the centre, caused by gravitational lensing that takes place when huge celestial bodies, like a galaxy cluster, causes the light passing though it to bend. Here's how gravitational lensing can lead to the formation of multiple im...

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Deep beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, researchers, from Lehigh University, have discovered a high-temperature off-axis hydrothermal vent field on the floor of ocean. It has been found at the depth of 2,550 metres and is likely to help scientists understand the impact of such vents on the life and chemistry of the oceans of the Earth.

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On the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, NASA announced on Wednesday that it’s shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon mission, Artemis I. NASA will attempt the more than month-long lunar test flight with three mannequins, but no astronauts, as early as August 29.

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Scientists from TU Vienna, INRIM Turin and ILL Grenoble, have managed to develop a neutron interferometer that can use two separate crystals. The team of researchers have managed to achieve this feat that has been eluding physicists since the 1990s, using a high-precision tip-tilt platform for the crystals' alignment.

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A mobile app culturally tailored to the needs of members of the African American community can have a positive impact on their heart health, according to a new study. The researchers have found that an app developed as part of the Fostering African American Improvement in Total Health (FAITH) program to improve heart health among African Americans in faith communities...

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American Space Agency NASA has selected Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) to launch their new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, from California which will explore dark matter and other subjects, according to a release by the agency on Wednesday.

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In a new study, researchers found substantial variations in the movement pattern of those with mild impairment or Alzheimer's disease when compared to people with normal cognition. This included variation in activity during waking hours and more fragmented activity during afternoons in participants with Alzheimer's.

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American space agency NASA on Tuesday announced that it will delay the launch of its water-hunting VIPER Moon rover by a year in a bid to allow more time to develop a landing vehicle for the mission. 

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A Neuralink executive who helped launch the firm six years ago is said to have left the company. Paul Merolla, who worked on Neuralink’s chip design program was one of eight people who helped set up Neuralink, including Elon Musk. The reason for his departure is currently unknown. Another founder was Neuralink’s former president Max Hodak, who also worked with Mus...

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In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.

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Taking inspiration from Octopuses, researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a special glove that allows to securely grip objects underwater. Holding things underwater with our land-dwelling fingers is not easy and while we are equipped with instruments like neoprene suits to protect our bodies underwater, our hands lack any such tool that gives us good grip over sl...

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An image of a gravitationally lensed galaxy was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It featured a mirror image of the galaxy in the centre, caused by gravitational lensing that takes place when huge celestial bodies, like a galaxy cluster, causes the light passing though it to bend. Here's how gravitational lensing can lead to the formation of multiple im...

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Deep beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, researchers, from Lehigh University, have discovered a high-temperature off-axis hydrothermal vent field on the floor of ocean. It has been found at the depth of 2,550 metres and is likely to help scientists understand the impact of such vents on the life and chemistry of the oceans of the Earth.

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A Bengaluru university will build a student satellite "Ramaiah Sat" that will be launched in August to commemorate 75 years of Indian independence. he M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences (MSRUAS) will build the satellite under the monitoring of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and with the help of Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA) to develo...

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The Perseid meteor shower, often considered as the best meteor shower of the year, is underway and will provide the best viewing opportunities for stargazers in America next month, according to the American Meteor Society.

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Astronomers have identified a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star, in a galaxy adjacent to the Milky Way. Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so intense not even light can escape. Deemed a cosmic "needle in a haystack", the newly discovered ‘dormant’ black hole...

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A video has surfaced on YouTube where a massive prominence can be seen on the Sun. It is so big that many users say the Sun appears to be breaking apart. The video also shows the prominence in motion along with an eruption of solar flare.

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The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope by NASA, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has suffered massive damage from an asteroid strike in May. 

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In a new experiment, researchers have rearranged atomic bonds in a single molecule for the first time. The team began their experiment with a substance called 5,6,11,12-tetrachlorotetracene (with the formula C18H8Cl4). It is a carbon-based molecule that has a row of four honeycomb-shaped cells with four chlorine atoms on each side, hovering like hungry bees.

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China is also developing a new monitoring and defence system which will be tested by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope sent back breathtaking photos of our universe last week, including ones that give us a chance to see faint distant galaxies as they were more than 13 billion years ago. The JWST photos also raise interesting points about how the expansion of the Universe factors into the way we calculate distances at a cosmological scale. Here’s h...

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Saudi Arabia has signed the Artemis Accords as part of the kingdom’s commitment to safe, sustainable, and responsible space exploration, a move welcomed by the US. The NASA-led Artemis program will put the first woman and first person of colour on the Moon and prepare the way for a human mission to Mars. So far, 21 countries have signed the Artemis Accords, and Saud...

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Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, governments are attempting to further innovation to drive economic recovery. However, attempts to accelerate existing or emerging industry clusters have been more successful, instead of building new industry clusters is also incredibly costly, which could take decades to pay dividends. Here’s how governments could help build up...

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A coalition of AI researchers has launched a new large language model that can serve as an antidote to systems such as GPT-3, which are considered close systems. BLOOM, for the BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model, can work across 46 languages, including Arabic, Spanish and French — unlike most systems that are focused on English or ...

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These images were taken by engineers when the James Webb Space Telescope's instruments were being tested

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Through an extensive study of the cells inside melanoma brain metastases, researchers have unravelled details about the condition which could lead to the development of new therapies. In the study, published in Cell, researchers from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center began by sourcing frozen metastatic tumours from dozens of melanoma patients. The techniqu...

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The comet named C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) or K2 went past Earth this week, and could be seen through large amateur telescopes, as reported. However, considering its distance from us, it did not offer a bright show despite its massive size. The comet is next expected to make an approach towards the Sun in December this year.

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In a study, published in Nature, the team from Imperial College London have used an external laser to heat up a Janus particle, which was coated with light-absorbing material on one side. The microparticle clusters gathered around the coating and the lasing thus created could be turned on and off by tweaking the intensity of the external laser.

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A SpaceX resupply spacecraft has left for the International Space Station (ISS) carrying science experiments that will help carry out climate science research in space. This is SpaceX's 25th commercial resupply services mission to the ISS for NASA. Launched on the Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Cargo Dragon spacecraft is transporting ...

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In a recent observation, it was established that during a tidal even called AT2019qiz, a black hole not only ripped apart the star and stretches its material, but also threw some intense wind flowing outward, sending the star's material out into space. While black holes are known to engulf the cosmic bodies, this research is crucial for understanding the existence of ...

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A team of researchers from Australia's Curtin University studied the chemical and physical properties of the Black Beauty meteorite to determine the location of its origin on Mars. The chemical composition of Black Beauty suggested that Mars also had volcanic activity like Earth. The team concluded that the meteorite originated from one of the oldest regions of Mars c...

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The United States' NASA said on Friday it would resume flights to the International Space Station with Russia, despite its attempts to isolate Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine. NASA said that astronaut Frank Rubio would fly with two Russian cosmonauts on a Soyuz rocket scheduled to launch on September 21 from Kazakhstan, with another astronaut, Loral O'Hara, taking...

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In a new study, published in Science, researchers have detected a cosmic ray offshoot called a neutrino or ghost particles. These parties are considered so evasive that they interact with anything but as they travel, they don't come in contact with the atoms. Neutrinos are like small particles messengers that have spawned a new field of astronomy called multi-messenge...

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NASA’s SpaceX CR-25 Dragon spacecraft has set off towards the International Space Station (ISS), after many delays. The Dragon capsule, which will dock with the ISS on Saturday, is carrying studies of the immune system, Earth's oceans, soil communities, and cell-free biomarkers. It is also taking mapping the composition of Earth's dust and testing an alternative to ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful space telescope, has generated wonder among scientists and lay people with the first deep space images that were released earlier this week. According to a photographer, the images from the telescope serve as a reminder that the divide between science and art is artificial. Here’s how the James Webb Deep Field i...

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NASA recently revealed stunning images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) earlier this week. Now the space agency’s most powerful space telescope will help scientists uncover the mysteries of the universe. Here’s how two projects, one studying the early history of the universe and another looking for life outside our solar system, will benefit from ...

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A VR application trial has shown promising results in reducing common phobias in participants. Patients afraid of either heights, flying, needles, spiders, or dogs were studied using a headset and a smartphone application treatment programme. The trial consisted of a combination of virtual reality 360-degree exposure therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in order...

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Researchers in Japan have recently unveiled new plans for an artificial space habitat and inter-planetary train system connecting the Earth, Moon and Mars.

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Paving the way for the construction of massive and much more scalable quantum computers, researchers at Simon Fraser University, Canada, have marked a major breakthrough in the development of quantum technology, paving the way for scalable quantum computers and a ‘quantum internet’ to connect them.

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Researchers at Japan's Nagoya University have used the data from the Tonga volcanic eruption and disturbances in the Earth's atmosphere to track the airwaves that led to the tsunami. The findings are now likely to help in predicting future giant waves and tsunamis.

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Researchers have uncovered the role of a protein called tau, which is a critical factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. A study by Flinders University provides hope for preventing the tau transformation process from happening, so that there is no toxic effect on brain cells. The research also provides a new mechanism to explain how the tau gets progressiv...

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The space scientists in China have proposed a new standard for keeping time across the solar system that, unlike existing systems, does not based on Earth - or religion. It is a new global timekeeping system that they believe will make more sense for a spacefaring civilization, Newsweek reported.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s most revolutionary findings may turn out to be accidental discoveries or answers to questions yet to be asked, according to astronomers. Experts say that the observatory's most consequential discoveries may well be those they have yet to even imagine. The JWST is 100 times more sensitive than its 30-year-old predecessor, the sti...

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The Starship rocket booster SpaceX plans to use for an inaugural flight to orbit will "probably" return to its launch mount in Texas next week following a testing explosion on Monday, the company's chief executive, Elon Musk, told Reuters.

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In a new study, researchers have experimented on mice with inflamed paws and exposed them to different types of sounds. These included a pleasant piece of classical music, an unpleasant rearrangement of the same sound, and white noise. The researchers noted that all three types of sounds eased the pain in the mice when played at low intensity. However, when high inten...

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The "Buck" supermoon will be visible on July 13, after the moon is at its closest to the Earth for the year 2022 at 2:30pm IST on Wednesday. The moon will approach a perigee distance of 357,264 kilometres away from Earth. With July 13 also being the date of a full moon, people across the planet will be able to see the biggest supermoon of the year tonight. Here's ever...

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Tesla battery supplier Panasonic Energy is working on increasing battery energy density by 20 percent by 2030, according to the company. A one-fifth increase in battery energy density could improve the driving range of Tesla’s vehicles — or allow for lighter electric vehicles, without affecting driving range.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has been designed to capture the faintest of light so that deep secrets of the universe can be revealed.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected signs of water and evidence of clouds and haze, in the atmosphere of WASP-96 b, located roughly 1,150 light-years away in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, and one of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way. The most detailed observation of its kind to date, it demonstrates Webb's unprecedented abil...

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Researchers in New York have transplanted pig hearts into two brain dead people to study the effects of animal organ transplants in humans. The attempts to use pig hearts in humans follows the failed attempt to transplant one in a dying Maryland man, before scientists make another attempt on a living person.

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Twitter sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,50,290 crore) deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 (roughly Rs. 4,300) per Twitter share.

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In a new study, researchers analysed how noradrenergic drugs, used in ADHD patients, can also be used for treating Alzheimer's. These drugs tend to target the noradrenergic system which has locus coeruleus, a small part of the brainstem.

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Paving the way for the fabrication of artificial hearts, bioengineers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have successfully created a biohybrid model of human ventricles.

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A group of scientists have identified that the fossil records of yunnanozoans, an extinct creature that lived 518 million years ago in the Cambrian Period, are the oldest known stem vertebrates. Stem vertebrates refer to creatures that were vertebrates, i.e. possessing a spinal column, but have now gone extinct though have closely related living vertebrates.

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While scientists believed that asteroid Bennu had a smooth and plain surface, they were recently astonished to learn the true nature of its exterior. An analysis of the data gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft revealed that Bennu's surface consists of loosely packed particles that resemble a pit filled with plastic balls. 

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NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant gas planet. The US, European, and Canadian space agencies are gearing up for a big reveal on July 12 of early observations by the $10 billion (roughly Rs. 79,330 crore) observatory, the successor to Hub...

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Twitter employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social media company in what could be the start of months of legal wrangling.

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Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,060 crore) deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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Twitter employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social media company in what could be the start of months of legal wrangling.

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Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,060 crore) deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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While scientists believed that asteroid Bennu had a smooth and plain surface, they were recently astonished to learn the true nature of its exterior. An analysis of the data gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft revealed that Bennu's surface consists of loosely packed particles that resemble a pit filled with plastic balls. 

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NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant gas planet. The US, European, and Canadian space agencies are gearing up for a big reveal on July 12 of early observations by the $10 billion (roughly Rs. 79,330 crore) observatory, the successor to Hub...

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Twitter employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social media company in what could be the start of months of legal wrangling.

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Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,060 crore) deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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While scientists believed that asteroid Bennu had a smooth and plain surface, they were recently astonished to learn the true nature of its exterior. An analysis of the data gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft revealed that Bennu's surface consists of loosely packed particles that resemble a pit filled with plastic balls. 

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NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant gas planet. The US, European, and Canadian space agencies are gearing up for a big reveal on July 12 of early observations by the $10 billion (roughly Rs. 79,330 crore) observatory, the successor to Hub...

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Twitter employees expressed disbelief and exhaustion on Friday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was terminating a deal to buy the social media company in what could be the start of months of legal wrangling.

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Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,49,060 crore) deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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An international team of researchers have spotted traces of an organic class of molecules at the centre of the Milky Way which are precursor to molecules essential for life. It is believed that originally life was based on only RNA (ribonucleic acid) on Earth while DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and protein enzymes evolved later. RNA is capable of performing both functio...

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A new study has revealed the common trait that is conducive to sand cloud development on the planets. The study was led by researchers at the Western University who observed brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are celestial bodies having size larger than a planet but smaller than a star.

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Researchers further said that the system could be valuable for those who lack manual dexterity to clean their teeth effectively.

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Elon Musk took it to Twitter to say that he was helping combat falling birth rates and underpopulation crisis. The tweets come a day after Musk was reported to welcome twins last year with an executive at Neuralink. Meanwhile, one of his children recently filed a petition in a California court to change her name and stated the wish not “to be related to my biologica...

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NASA has shared a teaser photo ahead of the release of its first deep-space images from the James Webb Telescope. The JWST is an instrument powerful enough to look back into the origins of the universe, all the way back to the Big Bang that occurred 13.8 billion years ago. According to NASA, the first fully formed images are the result of 72 exposures over 32 hours th...

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Scientists may be closer than ever to solving the problem of creating easily recyclable and reusable plastics. A group of researchers have created a new bioplastic that can disintegrate into its derivative components upon a disintegrate “command”. The derivatives can then be reused to make high-quality biopolymers for various uses.

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An asteroid the size of a small bus will whizz past the Earth at 90,000 kilometres away today. Estimated to measure between 5.5 and 12.5 meters, the asteroid 2022 NF was discovered only on July 4. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the asteroid will safely pass the planet, and astronomers will be able to watch Asteroid 2022 NF, when it flies by Earth today.

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crew members of Expedition 67 are now preparing for their next spacewalk at the International Space Station. The crew members have been exploring how humans and plants adapt to the zero-gravity conditions of space. As part of their study, NASA Flight Engineers Jessica Watkins and Bob Hines together analysed the effects of living in space on dexterous manipulation. The...

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Detroit airport in the United States recently added a futuristic information board that shows travellers personalised information about their flight. The “Parallel Reality” board, currently in its beta stage, has been developed by Misapplied Sciences in collaboration with Delta Airlines.

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In a remarkable finding, scientists have developed a nanotechnology platform that could pave way for new treatments for degenerative bone diseases. In their study, the scientists developed a technology that involves the use of iron nanowires. These nanowires bend in response to magnetic fields. Scientists grew bone-forming stem cells on the mesh of the nanowires which...

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A team of researchers, led by a University of Minnesota Twin Cities faculty member, have developed a new technique that gives scientists a window into RNA synthesis in the brain of a mouse while it is still alive. Scientists can now image mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice, as part of a technique that could be used by neurobiologists for various experiments a...

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Space travel company Virgin Galactic announcement an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new air launch carrier aircraft for its spaceships. The first of the new aircraft is due to enter service by 2025. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

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Researchers have found unique carbon crystals having unusual shapes in the grains of preserved meteorite dust. The dust was the result of a space rock explosion that took place over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013.

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Scientists have discovered an ozone hole in the earth’s lower stratosphere that is comparable in depth — but seven times larger — to the springtime Antarctic ozone hole. The large, all-season ozone hole has been detected over the tropics, which make up half of the Earth's surface area and are home to about half the planet’s population. The observation of the o...

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In a study led by scientists from Edith Cowan University, Australia, it was discovered that those suffering from severe cases of asthma have a distinct biochemical profile in their urine when compared to individuals suffering from mild or moderate asthma and healthy individuals.

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Scientists working with the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three subatomic particles never seen before as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe. They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into composite particles.

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a design framework to build next-generation analog computing chipsets. These are said to be faster than digital chips and will require less power.

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Dogs often manage to locate a particular toy they are obsessed with from a pile of other objects. A new study has suggested that this may be due to their ability to form a multi-modal mental image of familiar objects. Researchers tried to understand how pooches visualize their favourite objects while thinking of them, while testing their ability to locate objects in ...

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The Large Hadron Collider will begin its third run today, as it begins to smash protons together at an unprecedented energy level of 13.6 trillion electronvolts. The world's largest and most powerful particle collider will run around the clock for four years after a three-year break for upgrades. The newly upgraded collider will look at the Higgs Boson, related to som...

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lucy spacecraft mission was successful in further deploying the solar panel array that will be powering the craft. The mission team successfully managed to deploy the unlatched solar array to between 353 degrees and 357 degrees open. The team behind the spacecraft remotely operated Lucy's array deployment motor in l...

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A recently discovered nova has broken all previous records by fading away from view just 24 hours after it became visible to the human eye. The galactic equivalent of a flashbang, a nova is a powerful explosion of light and energy visible for days before is vanishes. The V1674 Herculis nova was seen on the border of the constellation Hercules the Hero that it shares w...

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Thanks to advancements in machine learning, scientists have now been able to develop a computer model that can predict crime that is about to occur up to a week before it happens. Using public data, data scientists and social scientists at the University of Chicago have developed an algorithm that predicts future violent and property crimes with 90 percent accuracy.

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Researchers have identified nearly 1,000 new species of microbes in the frozen Tibetan Plateau. The scientists set out to identify and discover microorganisms in 21 Tibetan glaciers between 2016 and 2020, The Tibetan Plateau is considered one of the harshest environments on the planet. They identified and catalogued 968 species of microorganisms found in extreme envir...

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Scientists have identified the most enormous alcohol molecule ever found to date. A group of international researchers have identified the alcohol isopropanol for the first time in interstellar space – the alcohol is most commonly used in hand sanitisers. The discovery highlights the complex formation of alcohol that can be found in interstellar space.

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China has rejected a warning from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson that China might "take over" the moon as part of a military programme, calling it an irresponsible smear campaign. Nelson said China's space programme was a military one and that China had stolen ideas and technology from others, in an interview published in German newspaper Bild on Saturday.

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Researchers in Japan have developed a unique, gold-spun, ultra-thin sensor that can be placed directly on the skin without causing any irritation or discomfort to the wearer. The sensor can evaluate different biomarkers or substances to perform body chemical analysis. It relies on Raman spectroscopy, a technique where laser light aimed at the sensor is changed slightl...

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NASA's DART mission could completely deform the target asteroid upon impact, according to a new study. Based on direct evidence from space missions like the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe that shows an asteroid can have a very loose internal structure, researchers have performed new simulations on the ambitious mission to collide with an asteroid and to defle...

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A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night.

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World UFO Day is marked annually on July 2 to spread awareness about the existence of mysterious Unidentified Flying Objects. Recently, NASA announced to assemble a UFO for investigating "unidentified aerial phenomena" — commonly termed UFOs.

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FIFA has announced to use semi-automated offside technology at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar starting on November 21. The new technology will calculate the exact position of each player using 29 data points of individual player, 50 times per second.

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In a new study, researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have made use of the carbon atoms in the waste to create raw material for the production of plastics. The carbon atoms used in the study are usually burned up or dumped in landfills rather than being recycled.

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In a game-changing discovery in medical sciences, researchers have developed a flexible implant that can relieve pain in the patient. The implant can serve as an alternative to painkillers and can help obviate the need to use addictive medications. The implant is a biocompatible and water-soluble device that functions by wrapping around the nerves to provide cooling i...

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Dhruva Space has successfully tested its satellite orbital deployer in an important milestone that has cleared the way for launch of the homegrown space sector startup's satellite missions Thybolt-1 and Thybolt-2 onboard PSLV’s C54 mission. Dhruva Space plans to launch indigenously built satellites and intends to be part of every ISRO PSLV commercial mission, the co...

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In what could result in some magnificent auroras or Northern Lights, a spot on the surface of the Sun has been growing at a rapid pace and has become three times the size of Earth. The sunspot, Active Region 3038 (AR3038), has been found to be facing our planet and can probably emit some solar flares. The sunspot expanded more than double in size in just one day and i...

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A new study has found out why mosquitoes like to buzz around and bite some people more than others. Researchers discovered that infection from some viruses makes you smell tastier and attracts more mosquitoes, which increases the transmission of the disease.

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