What date is the solar eclipse in 2020? Everything you need to know - Wales Online An annular solar eclipse is coming with the moon blocking most of the sun aside from a spectacular ring of fire around the edge - so when are the next eclipses we can watch? More...

In this place you can find the cleanest air on Earth - Checkersaga The place with the purest fresh air on Earth is already known because researchers have focused on locating… More...

Of The 24 Satellites It Will Eventually Launch, Bengaluru Startup To Send The First By Year-End - India Times Last week, Elon Musk's SpaceX sent two astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station in a privately-funded spacecraft. This is the first time such a thing has happened.  AFPNow, joining the 'spacewagon,… More...

Ultrathin nanosheets separate harmful ions from water - EurekAlert An international research team, led by Monash University and ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), has created an ultrathin membrane with high porosity that can filter potentially harmful ions from water. More...

Astronomers may have found an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star - News-Daily.com Some 3,000 light years away from Earth, researchers believe they have found an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. More...

Explained: Asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth this month - The Indian Express A Near-Earth Object (NEO), the asteroid is called 163348 (2002 NN4) and is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA). More...

Offices with natural lighting help workers sleep more and perform better: Study - The Indian Express A new study conducted by a team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the US has found that office workers sleep more hours each night when exposed to more sunlight during the day. More...

'Whispering gallery' effect controls electron beams with light - Chemie.de When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul’s cathedral, the sound runs so easily around the dome that visitors anywhere on its circumference can hear it. This striking phenomenon has ... More...

How to take a virtual tour of the International Space Station - Digital Trends The Space Station has received renewed interest following the arrival last week of SpaceX astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on the Crew Dragon. More...

Canadian roboticists create third arm to pick up fruit - FreshPlaza.com Roboticists from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada have invented a waist-mounted remote-controlled hydraulic arm that can help pickers with gentle tasks like picking fruit, but: it also… More...

Newly identified gene reduces pollen number of plants - EurekAlert Producing less sperm cells can be advantageous in self-fertilizing plants. An international study led by the University of Zurich identified a gene in the model plant Arabidopsis that reduces the number of pollen. In addition to supporting the evolutionary th… More...

Earth's Forests Aren't Just Shrinking, They're Getting Younger - And That's a Problem - ScienceAlert The fate of Earth's forests remains uncertain. In the past few years, humans have removed more than 40 football fields of tree cover every single minute; altogether, it's an annual chunk of greenery roughly the size of the United Kingdom. More...

Indians searched for Covid-19 vaccine the most in May: Google - Daijiworld.com More...

Yokogawa technology arrives at the ISS | News - gasworld Yokogawa Electric Corporation technology set to be used in life science experiments has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). More...

Asteroid flyby: Asteroid 163348 flew past Earth; All you need to know - The Financial Express More...

SpaceX launch: NASA releases stunning image of Crew Dragon approaching ISS - Express.co.uk NASA has released a stunning image of SpaceX's Crew Dragon approaching the International Space Station (ISS) with a mesmerising backdrop of Earth. More...

Hubble Space Telescope Spots One Stunning Galaxy Among Millions - SciTechDaily Looking deep into the Universe, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral galaxy, known as NGC 2608. Appearing as a slightly stretched, smaller version of our Milky W… More...

Mars may have once been a ringed planet billions of years ago, say researchers - Firstpost Study authors state that the only possible explanation behind Deimos’s tilted orbit is for Mars to have had a ring billions of years ago. More...

Asteroid Impacts May Have Formed Life On Earth And Even Mars, Claims New Study - India Times Scientists and researchers are constantly trying to find the secret to the origin of our world. Of life itself, and how it came to be on our planet.Some say life evolved by something that came down from meteorites while some feel that life evolved from the ac… More...

Astronomers have finally measured the distance of first observed Einstein ring - Ars Technica The celestial object, a quasar known as MG 1131+0456, is 10 billion light years away. More...

Everything you wanted to know about Starlink (but were afraid to ask) - Inverse As Starlink takes flight, here's a comprehensive look at everything you need to know about getting your internet from Elon Musk. More...

Lockdowns may have averted 3 million deaths in Europe by curbing COVID-19 - study - TODAYonline LONDON — Lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19 have saved millions of lives and easing them now carries high risks, according to two international studies published on Monday (June 8). More...

Solar Eclipse 2020: date, time, and other important details - Jagran Josh The annual solar eclipse will take place on June 21, 2020. The eclipse will begin at 9.15 am IST in the morning and will continue for six long hours. More...

Physicists entangle 15 trillion hot atoms - Livescience.com More...

Scientists discover ‘mirror image’ of the Earth and the Sun 3,000 light-years away: Report - BusinessLine Scientists have recently discovered a new exoplanet-star pair which resembles our Earth-Sun system. The star Kepler-160 and the planet KOI-456. Are quite similar to the Sun and the Earth, more than an More...

Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust - ANI News Washington DC [USA], June 8 (ANI): Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them. More...

Industry News: New technique for engineering living materials and patterns - SelectScience New technique for engineering living materials and patterns More...

When cancer cells can't make their own fat, they eat more of it, study finds - Medical Xpress A switch in fat metabolism from production to import could be exploited for cancer treatment, researchers say. More...

Why a physicist wants to build a particle collider on the moon - Livescience.com More...

'Mole-bot' optimized for underground and space exploration - Tech Xplore Mole-bot, a drilling biomimetic robot designed by KAIST, boasts a stout scapula, a waist inclinable on all sides, and powerful forelimbs. Most of all, the powerful torque from the expandable drilling bit mimicking the chiseling ability of a mole's front teeth… More...

Oldest known animal: 425 million-years-old Millipede fossil discovered in Scotland - Republic World - Republic World Millipede Fossil is oldest bug specimen in history of paleontology is a category of arthropods which includes land-dwelling insects, arachnids, and centipedes. More...

Study on Hot Charge Carriers Could Optimize Energy Conversion and Storage - AZoCleantech Researchers from the University of Michigan, Purdue University, and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom have discovered how to measure the number of “hot charge carriers” (for instance, electrons with extra energy) in a metal nanostructure. More...

Binance to give away Tesla Cybertruck (again) and $28,000 - Decrypt Crypto exchange Binance will hand out one of Elon Musk’s famous Cybertrucks and a cash prize to its traders. More...

How Transparent Graphene Electrodes Could Aid Solar Cell Generation - AZoNano A new technique of manufacturing graphene could revolutionize solar power by enabling the creation of ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels. More...

3D Shape of the Human Genome Has Surprising Roles in Various Fundamental Processes in Life - SciTechDaily The three-dimensional structure of the human genome is essential for providing a rapid and robust inflammatory response but is surprisingly not vital for reprogramming one cell type into another, according to research published today in Nature Genetics. The f… More...

Why the Victoria Plate in Africa rotates: Weaker and stronger lithospheric regions cause the rotation of the Victoria microplate - Science Daily The East African Rift System is a newly forming plate tectonic boundary at which the African continent is being separated into several plates. According to GPS data, one of those, the Victoria microplate, is moving in a counterclockwise rotation relative to A… More...

Like humans, these big-brained birds may owe their smarts to long childhoods - Science Magazine Parenting may be linked to the evolution of larger brains and intelligence in corvids More...

NASA spacecraft swoops down low over asteroid Bennu to eye sampling site - Space.com More...

How Will Doing Science Change in India After COVID-19? An Interview. - The Wire An interview with Jyotsna Dhawan about the impact the current pandemic will have on the public view of science and scientists. More...

First global map of rockfalls on the Moon - Science Daily A research team counted over 136,000 rockfalls on the moon caused by asteroid impacts. Even billions of years old landscapes are still changing. More...

Expedition 63 InFlight Event with ABC and NBC - June 8, 2020 - NASA Video SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS DISCUSS COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO ISS Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 63 Flight Engineers Douglas Hurley and Robert ... More...

Chemists have induced uniform chirality - Science Daily Chirality is a fundamental property of many organic molecules and means that chemical compounds can appear in not only one form, but in two mirror-image forms as well. Chemists have now found a way to spontaneously induce chirality in crystalline, liquid-crys… More...

Monkeys Experience the Uncanny Valley Effect, Just Like Humans - SciTechDaily Monkeys Appreciate Lifelike Animation: New Realistic Avatar Can Overcome Uncanny Valley Effect Monkeys can overcome their aversion to animated monkeys through a more realistic avatar, according to research recently published in eNeuro. Humans feel more comfor… More...

Brilliant fireball lights up skies over Tennessee (video) - Space.com More...

Three New Views of Mars' Moon Phobos - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Taken with the infrared camera on NASA's Odyssey orbiter, the images reveal temperature variations aboard the small moon as it drifts into and out of Mars' shadow. More...

Ocean geoengineering tests violate UN convention: green groups - Phys.org Experimental geoengineering schemes to protect areas such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef are "distracting technofixes" that violate an international moratorium on the largely untested tech projects, a coalition of nearly 200 environmental groups said Monda… More...

Elon Musk reportedly tells SpaceX's 7,000 employees in email to shift their focus to the rocket designed to ev - Business Insider India Elon Musk told his employees in an internal email that SpaceX would focus on Starship as its primary goal, according to CNBC. The most recent Starship test More...

Shock waves created in the lab mimic supernova particle accelerators - Science Daily Scientists have found new details about how supernovas boost charged particles to nearly the speed of light. More...

First US woman to walk in space dives to Earth's lowest point - Filmy One Kathy Sullivan, who became the first American woman to walk in space in 1984, has reached a new low – becoming the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the lowest known point on Earth, according to reports. Kathryn Sullivan in 2014FilmMagic The former astron… More...

Great White Shark Diet Surprises Scientists - Newswise Understanding how sharks feed is vital for managing human interactions More...

Research team builds better rock models - EurekAlert Once you crush, cut or fracture a rock, there are no do-overs. It's a fact that means geoscientists have to be particularly careful about which rock samples they can sacrifice to physics experiments versus which ones should stay on the shelf. A team of geosci… More...

What causes Saturn’s strange polar cloud hexagon? - Ars Technica Simulation with deep convection points to hidden vortices. More...

NASA to Announce Selection of Company to Fly VIPER Rover to Moon - NASA NASA will announce the commercial provider selected to deliver NASA’s new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon during a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 10. More...

Scientists engineer one protein to fight cancer and regenerate neurons - Phys.org Our lungs, bones, blood vessels and other major organs are made up of cells, and one way our bodies keep us healthy is by using protein messengers known as ligands that bind to receptors on the surfaces of cells to regulate our biological processes. When thos… More...

Scientists Marry Two Powerful Techniques to Pinpoint Locations of Individual Molecules in Their Cellular Neighborhoods - Newswise Developed in the lab of Stanford University Nobelist W.E. Moerner, the technique combines cryoelectron tomography and low temperature single-molecule microscopy. It has potential to answer fundamental questions about the molecular machinery of viruses, parasi… More...

Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip - Phys.org MIT engineers have designed a "brain-on-a-chip," smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors—silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brai… More...