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Global climate change leading to shorter, younger trees Says Researchers- Sentinelassam - The Sentinel Assam 03-Jun-2020

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Global climate change leading to shorter, younger trees Says Researchers- Sentinelassam - The Sentinel Assam Ongoing environmental changes are transforming forests worldwide, resulting in shorter and younger... More...

Astronomers confirm the existence of Earth Size Planet at Proxima Centauri - Jagran Josh 03-Jun-2020

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Astronomers confirm the existence of Earth Size Planet at Proxima Centauri - Jagran Josh The researchers found that the Earth-like planet Proxima b is 1.17 times the mass of the Earth which is smaller than the older estimate of 1.3 times. More...

High-Pressure Experiments Yield Discovery of New Forms of Feldspars - SciTechDaily 03-Jun-2020

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High-Pressure Experiments Yield Discovery of New Forms of Feldspars - SciTechDaily In high-pressure experiments, scientists have discovered new forms of the common mineral feldspar. At moderate temperatures, these hitherto unknown variants are stable at pressures of Earth's upper mantle, where common feldspar normally cannot exist. The disc… More...

Sheep’s eye reveals how much stressed out they are - Tech Explorist 03-Jun-2020

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Sheep’s eye reveals how much stressed out they are - Tech Explorist Thermal imaging can detect subtle changes in temperature in a sheep’s eye that help scientists understand the levels of stress it is feeling. More...

Solar Eclipse 2020: Annular solar eclipse to take pla.. June, likely to be visible from parts of north India - Firstpost 03-Jun-2020

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Solar Eclipse 2020: Annular solar eclipse to take pla.. June, likely to be visible from parts of north India - Firstpost This year, the annual solar eclipse will occur on 21 June. More...

Space X makes history: What entry of private sector into space means for business and future exploration - Times Now 03-Jun-2020

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Space X makes history: What entry of private sector into space means for business and future exploration - Times Now Space X's milestone mission has christened a new chapter in the space industry, as the race to make space tourism commercially viable heats up. More...

Warming pushes rainforests to edge - Telangana Today 03-Jun-2020

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Warming pushes rainforests to edge - Telangana Today As they photosynthesise and grow, tropical forests remove enormous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, reducing global warming. However, forests are also themselves affected by this warming. If it gets too hot or too dry, trees will grow less and may start… More...

NASA astronaut press conference from the International Space Station - FOX10 News 03-Jun-2020

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NASA astronaut press conference from the International Space Station - FOX10 News NASA astronaut press conference from the International Space Station More...

Gravitas: SpaceX Space Station mission | New era in space exploration - WION 03-Jun-2020

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Gravitas: SpaceX Space Station mission | New era in space exploration - WION SpaceX has made history with a manned mission to the International Space station. WION's Palki Sharma gets you a report on the many firsts this American aero... More...

Remote control for neurons could revolutionise human biology, medicine - THE WEEK 03-Jun-2020

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Remote control for neurons could revolutionise human biology, medicine - THE WEEK Remote optical stimulation could impact the future of human biology and medicine More...

Astronomers capture a pulsar 'Powering Up' - ANI News 03-Jun-2020

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Astronomers capture a pulsar 'Powering Up' - ANI News Melbourne [Australia], June 2 (ANI): A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full 12-day process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-Ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun. More...

Scientists propose using space rocks against asteroid threat - CGTN 03-Jun-2020

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Scientists propose using space rocks against asteroid threat - CGTN Chinese scientists have proposed a new solution to defend Earth from asteroid strikes, according to a study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. More...

SpaceX's new Starship prototype rocket exploded during ground tests, no injuries reported - Firstpost 03-Jun-2020

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SpaceX's new Starship prototype rocket exploded during ground tests, no injuries reported - Firstpost The Starship rocket stands at 120 metres and is designed to carry humans and 90,718 kgs of cargo to the moon and Mars. More...

The biggest solar flare since 2017 spotted by NASA — and there could be more to come as the Sun wakes up - Business Insider India 03-Jun-2020

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The biggest solar flare since 2017 spotted by NASA — and there could be more to come as the Sun wakes up - Business Insider India The Sun spit out its largest solar flare in the last 925 days, since October 2017. Scientists with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are More...

Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium - Nanowerk 03-Jun-2020

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Class of stellar explosions found to be galactic producers of lithium - Nanowerk Scientists have combined theory with both observations and laboratory studies and determined that a class of stellar explosions, called classical novae, are responsible for most of the lithium in our galaxy and solar system. More...

Discovery sheds new light on famed Einstein Ring - Catch News 03-Jun-2020

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Discovery sheds new light on famed Einstein Ring - Catch News The gravitational field of the closer galaxy warps space itself, bending and amplifying the light of the quasar in the background. More...

Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes - Nanowerk 03-Jun-2020

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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes - Nanowerk In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar gas, but also smaller stars as well. This helps to explain the large number of supermassive black holes observed today. More...

Scientists shed light on growth of black holes - Telangana Today 03-Jun-2020

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Scientists shed light on growth of black holes - Telangana Today California: Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI), have shed light on how black holes grow over time by developing a new model to predict if growth by accretion or by mergers is dominant. The stu… More...

Hubble telescope finds crucial clues about planet formation by studying star cluster Westerlund 2 - Firstpost 03-Jun-2020

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Hubble telescope finds crucial clues about planet formation by studying star cluster Westerlund 2 - Firstpost Stars that reside in the centre of a cluster would have lesser chances of forming planets while the chances of planet formation are higher in the outer layers. More...

Climate Change is So Bad That It's Making Trees Shorter and Younger - News18 03-Jun-2020

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Climate Change is So Bad That It's Making Trees Shorter and Younger - News18 According to the researchers, this is likely to have big implications for the services those forests provide, such as mitigating climate change. More...

A new, optimized model for studying the role of neutrophils - Tech Explorist 03-Jun-2020

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A new, optimized model for studying the role of neutrophils - Tech Explorist Scientists have developed a new, optimized model for studying the role of neutrophils in the context of disease. More...

Bennu and Ryugu Might Have Been Two Large Chunks From One Asteroid - Mashable India 03-Jun-2020

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Bennu and Ryugu Might Have Been Two Large Chunks From One Asteroid - Mashable India Astronomers from NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 missions think that asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu might originate from the same parent body that shattered on collision with other objects. More...

China To Start Hunting Alien Life From September With 500 Metre Radio Telescope - India Times 03-Jun-2020

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China To Start Hunting Alien Life From September With 500 Metre Radio Telescope - India Times Ever since humans have gotten serious about space, one big question has always been on our mind -- are we alone in the universe? And researchers have been constantly on a lookout for signs for aliens or extraterrestrials. And China’s newest telescope will att… More...

Astronomers found the exact location of four fast radio bursts - Tech Explorist 03-Jun-2020

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Astronomers found the exact location of four fast radio bursts - Tech Explorist Using a specially designed transient detector on CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in outback Western Australia, astronomers precisely localized the four fast radio bursts came from the outskirts of their home galaxies. More...

Strawberry Moon in Glasgow - what is it and when you'll be able to see it - Glasgow Live 03-Jun-2020

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Strawberry Moon in Glasgow - what is it and when you'll be able to see it - Glasgow Live Did you miss the Strawberry Moon last June? You'll get another chance this week. More...

Handheld ultraviolet light device may deactivate COVID-19 - Medical Dialogues 03-Jun-2020

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Handheld ultraviolet light device may deactivate COVID-19 - Medical Dialogues Researchers at Penn State, the University of Minnesota and two Japanese universities have found that ... More...

Mass extinction 215 million years ago - Studies dismiss climate change & asteroids - Republic World - Republic World 03-Jun-2020

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Mass extinction 215 million years ago - Studies dismiss climate change & asteroids - Republic World - Republic World New studies have found that the reason for mass extinction 215 million years ago did not happen on Earth due to climate change or asteroids. More...

Black holes indigestion 6 million years ago may have resulted in THESE Fermi Bubbles - Republic World - Republic World 03-Jun-2020

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Black holes indigestion 6 million years ago may have resulted in THESE Fermi Bubbles - Republic World - Republic World Black Hole "Sagittarius A" devoured a star millions of years ago. It is now forming 2 huge bubbles around the milky way now. Here is what you need to know More...

Scientists Mixed Squid DNA With Human Cells to Control Their Transparency in 'Revolutionary' Study - Newsweek 03-Jun-2020

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Scientists Mixed Squid DNA With Human Cells to Control Their Transparency in 'Revolutionary' Study - Newsweek The team were inspired by see-through sea creatures like squids. More...

Today's CO2 levels higher than past 23 million years: Study - Telangana Today 03-Jun-2020

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Today's CO2 levels higher than past 23 million years: Study - Telangana Today New York: Researchers have revealed that today's carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are actually higher than they have been for the past 23 million years. The research team from the University of Louisiana in the US utilised the fossilised remains of ancient plant t… More...

PR Newswire - Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on Milky Way's Black Hole - IT News Online 03-Jun-2020

PR Newswire - Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on Milky Way's Black Hole - IT News Online Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on Milky Way's Black Hole More...

June 2020 – The Daily Chronicle - The Daily Chronicle 03-Jun-2020

June 2020 – The Daily Chronicle - The Daily Chronicle More...

New theory over mysterious ‘cigar’ asteroid which visited our solar system - Yahoo India News 03-Jun-2020

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New theory over mysterious ‘cigar’ asteroid which visited our solar system - Yahoo India News The space rock named `Oumuamua was the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, and made headlines around the world in 2017. More...

How to See This Friday's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse - Universe Today 03-Jun-2020

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How to See This Friday's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse - Universe Today Eclipse season resumes on June 5th, with a fine penumbral lunar eclipse. More...

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Sample Caching System - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 03-Jun-2020

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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Sample Caching System - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Watch as NASA-JPL engineers test the Sample Caching System on the Perseverance Mars rover. Described as one of the most complex robotic systems ever built, t... More...

South Africa, NASA collaborate to support human missions to Moon, Mars and beyond - Deccan Herald 03-Jun-2020

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South Africa, NASA collaborate to support human missions to Moon, Mars and beyond - Deccan Herald South Africa has partnered with NASA to host a deep-space ground station, which will support human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. With this collaboration, South Africa became the fourth country after the US, Spain and Australia to host a d… More...

Scientists identify the cleanest air on Earth. Find out where - Hindustan Times 03-Jun-2020

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Scientists identify the cleanest air on Earth. Find out where - Hindustan Times The study suggests that the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica is one of very few places on Earth that has been minimally affected by anthropogenic or human activities. More...

Clue to a hot corona mystery - Telegraph India 03-Jun-2020

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Clue to a hot corona mystery - Telegraph India Astronomers discover a drumbeat of magnetic explosions across the face of the sun More...

Chandra Saw Two Black Hole Jets Gushing at 80% Light Speed - Interesting Engineering 03-Jun-2020

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Chandra Saw Two Black Hole Jets Gushing at 80% Light Speed - Interesting Engineering The Chandra X-ray Observatory captured images of a black hole gushing out ultra-hot material at greater than 80% of the speed of light, and formed the observations into a short movie. More...

Falcon 9 booster used to launch NASA astronauts arrives at Port Canaveral - WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando 03-Jun-2020

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Falcon 9 booster used to launch NASA astronauts arrives at Port Canaveral - WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando The SpaceX rocket booster used to launch NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on their mission to the International Space Station, making history by b... More...

Amdavadi gets in touch with SpaceX Crew Dragon men - Ahmedabad Mirror 03-Jun-2020

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Amdavadi gets in touch with SpaceX Crew Dragon men - Ahmedabad Mirror Adhir Saiyadh, 58, a ham radio enthusiast, was trying to get connected with ISS when he received a response from astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon More...

A dinosaur's last meal: A 110 million-year-old dinosaur's stomach contents are revealed - CNN 03-Jun-2020

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A dinosaur's last meal: A 110 million-year-old dinosaur's stomach contents are revealed - CNN A dinosaur with impressive armored plates across its back became mummified around 110 million years ago, and now we know what this nodosaur ate for its last meal, according to a new study. More...