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What is a black hole made of, who discovered them and when was the first picture released? - The Sun 15-Jun-2020

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What is a black hole made of, who discovered them and when was the first picture released? - The Sun Scientists have called the release of the first picture of a black hole as a 'huge breakthrough for humanity' More...

NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes a Selfie on Mars — Here's How It Happened (Video) - Travel+Leisure 15-Jun-2020

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes a Selfie on Mars — Here's How It Happened (Video) - Travel+Leisure “Before I scaled the hill, I took this self-portrait.” More...

Projections for Sea Level Rise Exceed IPCC Estimates - The Maritime Executive 15-Jun-2020

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Projections for Sea Level Rise Exceed IPCC Estimates - The Maritime Executive An international study led by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has found that the... More...

This Summer, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars - Air & Space Magazine 15-Jun-2020

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This Summer, Three Countries Are Heading Off to Mars - Air & Space Magazine A mini-armada of landers and orbiters will descend on the Red Planet. More...

One Giant Leap for Quantum Science: Exotic Fifth State of Matter Created on Space Station - SciTechDaily 15-Jun-2020

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One Giant Leap for Quantum Science: Exotic Fifth State of Matter Created on Space Station - SciTechDaily NASA's Cold Atom Lab Takes One Giant Leap for Quantum Science A new study describes how the mission became the first to make a fifth state of matter in Earth orbit, and the advantages of studying atoms in space. This month marks 25 years since scientists firs… More...

Kathy Lueders to head NASA’s Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate - Hindustan Times 15-Jun-2020

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Kathy Lueders to head NASA’s Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate - Hindustan Times “Kathy Lueders has been selected to lead @NASA’s Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate,” NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced on Twitter. More...

When Cancer Cells Can't Make Their Own Fat, They Eat What is actually Around Them - Market Research News 15-Jun-2020

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When Cancer Cells Can't Make Their Own Fat, They Eat What is actually Around Them - Market Research News ] A button in cancer cells fatty tissue metabolic process coming from manufacturing to bring in may be capitalized on for treatment, scientists point out. More...

Scientists Create New 'Super' Natural Killer Cells To Fight Leukemia Better - International Business Times, Singapore Edition 15-Jun-2020

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Scientists Create New 'Super' Natural Killer Cells To Fight Leukemia Better - International Business Times, Singapore Edition Induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) were used to create 'super' Natural Killer (NK) cells, from whom a gene called CISH was deleted; they were effective against leukemia More...

Designer Biosensors to Probe the Activation of Important Drug Targets - Research by Prof Arun Shukla, Department of BSBE, IIT Kanpur - Yahoo India News 15-Jun-2020

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Designer Biosensors to Probe the Activation of Important Drug Targets - Research by Prof Arun Shukla, Department of BSBE, IIT Kanpur - Yahoo India News KANPUR, India, June 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cells in our body are surrounded by a lipid membrane structure, which works as the cell boundary. There are specific classes of protein molecules that are embedded in this membrane called receptors. These proteins … More...

Melting Glaciers Cool the Southern Ocean – Might Explain the Recent Antarctic Cooling and Sea Ice Expansion - SciTechDaily 15-Jun-2020

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Melting Glaciers Cool the Southern Ocean – Might Explain the Recent Antarctic Cooling and Sea Ice Expansion - SciTechDaily Research suggests glacial melting might explain the recent decadal cooling and sea ice expansion across Antarctica's Southern Ocean. Tucked away at the very bottom of the globe surrounding Antarctica, the Southern Ocean has never been easy to study. Its chall… More...

Space shock: Astronomers close in on 12-billion-year-old signal from 'dark age' of cosmos - Express.co.uk 15-Jun-2020

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Space shock: Astronomers close in on 12-billion-year-old signal from 'dark age' of cosmos - Express.co.uk ASTRONOMERS are closing in on a 12-billion-year-old signal from a time when the universe was starless, branding this era the 'dark age' of the cosmos. More...

Rocket Lab deploys satellites for NASA, NRO and UNSW Canberra on 12th Electron Mission - SatelliteProME.com 15-Jun-2020

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Rocket Lab deploys satellites for NASA, NRO and UNSW Canberra on 12th Electron Mission - SatelliteProME.com This launch is the first conducted by Rocket Lab since Covid-19 national restrictions were eased earlier this month. More...

Scientists Discover Massive Structures Deep Inside The Earth's Core - Sakshi English 15-Jun-2020

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Scientists Discover Massive Structures Deep Inside The Earth's Core - Sakshi English HYDERABAD: As a part of their discoveries on Earth, University of Maryland (UMD) scientists now have discovered vast structures beneath...... More...

Elon Musk's SpaceX Makes Mars Top Priority For Starship, With Human Landing By 2025 - India Times 15-Jun-2020

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Makes Mars Top Priority For Starship, With Human Landing By 2025 - India Times SpaceX has recently achieved what no other private space firm could in the space race history. While there is no doubt that the milestone was gigantic and one of critical importance for the generations to come, it was just a stepping stone for the firm’s ulti… More...

Meet the first female head of NASA’s human spaceflight program - The Indian Express 15-Jun-2020

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Meet the first female head of NASA’s human spaceflight program - The Indian Express Steve Stich will replace Kathy Lueders as the Commercial Crew Program Manager while Ken Bowersox returns to his role as HEO deputy associate administrator. More...

What’s out there? Deep space radio burst sending signals to earth every 157 days, study finds [WATCH] - Times Now 15-Jun-2020

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What’s out there? Deep space radio burst sending signals to earth every 157 days, study finds [WATCH] - Times Now FRBs are bursts of radio waves in space that last for a very short time, just a millisecond. More...

Butterfly Wings Conceal Hidden Structures That Destroy 'Deadly' Raindrops - ScienceAlert 15-Jun-2020

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Butterfly Wings Conceal Hidden Structures That Destroy 'Deadly' Raindrops - ScienceAlert For humans, getting whacked in the face by heavy raindrops is a mere annoyance. But for tiny and delicate organisms - like butterflies - drops of rainwater are the equivalent of a person being pummelled by bowling balls falling from the sky. Ouch. More...

Astronomers Track a Fast Radio Burst to Its Source—a Magnetar - WIRED 15-Jun-2020

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Astronomers Track a Fast Radio Burst to Its Source—a Magnetar - WIRED The origin of these explosions of radio waves has long been an astrophysics mystery. Now one has been traced to an ultra-dense spinning magnetized stellar core. More...

Scientists close in on 12 billion-yr-old signal from universe’s ‘dark age’ - Hindustan Times 15-Jun-2020

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Scientists close in on 12 billion-yr-old signal from universe’s ‘dark age’ - Hindustan Times The signal that the researchers are looking for is an electromagnetic wave given off by the neutral hydrogen that used to populate the universe before stars formed. More...

'Standard model' of cosmology called into question by new measurements - Space.com 15-Jun-2020

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'Standard model' of cosmology called into question by new measurements - Space.com More...

An Indian radio amateur says he contacted the SpaceX astronauts during his mission, is it possible? - Checkersaga 15-Jun-2020

An Indian radio amateur says he contacted the SpaceX astronauts during his mission, is it possible? - Checkersaga During their flight to the International Space Station, did SpaceX astronauts chat with an Indian radio amateur? NASA… More...

Space robotics company Astrobotic to transport NASA’s rover to the moon in 2022 - Digital Trends 15-Jun-2020

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Space robotics company Astrobotic to transport NASA’s rover to the moon in 2022 - Digital Trends NASA has announced that space robotics company Astrobotic has been awarded a $199.5 million contract to transport the agency's newest lunar rover to the moon. More...

Solar Eclipse 2020: check date, time, and everything you need to know - Jagran Josh 15-Jun-2020

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Solar Eclipse 2020: check date, time, and everything you need to know - Jagran Josh The solar eclipse will be visible from Earth on June 21, 2020. The eclipse will begin at 9.15 am IST in the morning and will continue for six long More...

SpaceX Starlink Launch Sets Elon Musk's Affordable Satellite Launch Goal in Motion - News18 15-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Starlink Launch Sets Elon Musk's Affordable Satellite Launch Goal in Motion - News18 SpaceX's SmallSat rideshare programme is aimed at offering small scale satellite companies deploy their spacecrafts into orbit, at a relatively low price. More...

New Integrated 3D-Circuit Architecture With Spiraling Memory for More Efficient AI - SciTechDaily 15-Jun-2020

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New Integrated 3D-Circuit Architecture With Spiraling Memory for More Efficient AI - SciTechDaily Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo designed and built specialized computer hardware consisting of stacks of memory modules arranged in a 3D-spiral for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This research may op… More...

The NASA spacecraft returns images of stars 4.3 billion kilometers away - techtoday19 15-Jun-2020

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The NASA spacecraft returns images of stars 4.3 billion kilometers away - techtoday19 New Horizons explores Pluto, ArrokothHave 3D glasses? You can see these stereo pictures revealing the distance of the stars from their background. On the More...

Chennai-based scientist claims connection between Covid-19 outbreak and solar eclipse on December 26 - Times Now 15-Jun-2020

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Chennai-based scientist claims connection between Covid-19 outbreak and solar eclipse on December 26 - Times Now Deducing a possible theory, Dr KL Sundar Krishna, Nuclear and Earth Scientist told ANI, "Since December 2019, coronavirus has surfaced to perish our lives. More...

An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar - Ars Technica 15-Jun-2020

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An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar - Ars Technica Archaeologists have found a monument, market, temple, bath complex, and water pipes. More...

Mysterious green glow seen shooting across Australian night sky - 9News 15-Jun-2020

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Mysterious green glow seen shooting across Australian night sky - 9News Night owls in Western Australia have captured a stunning green glow shoot across the evening sky. More...

Solar Orbiter: Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass - BBC News 15-Jun-2020

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Solar Orbiter: Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass - BBC News The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km. More...

Unprecedented Discovery Shows The Resilience of Aboriginal Culture in Australia - ScienceAlert 15-Jun-2020

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Unprecedented Discovery Shows The Resilience of Aboriginal Culture in Australia - ScienceAlert Trees marked by Aboriginal cultural practices are a distinctive part of the Australian landscape. More...

Social jetlag? Longer time in bed during lockdown has worsened sleep quality - Free Press Journal 15-Jun-2020

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Social jetlag? Longer time in bed during lockdown has worsened sleep quality - Free Press Journal People are sleeping for longer hours during lockdown and work from home scenario as they do not need to travel to workplaces but the quality of sleep has become worse in many, reveals new research. If the differences in sleep timing and duration between work … More...

The Mystery of Hidden Forces Behind Earth's Highest Mountains Could Finally Be Solved - ScienceAlert 15-Jun-2020

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The Mystery of Hidden Forces Behind Earth's Highest Mountains Could Finally Be Solved - ScienceAlert It's a process that can take billions of years, but mountains do indeed grow – and exactly what factors control that growth has been the subject of an ongoing debate between scientists. Now it looks as though we may finally have a definitive answer More...

'Tight-rope walking' croc may have stood on two legs: Study - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post 15-Jun-2020

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'Tight-rope walking' croc may have stood on two legs: Study - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post Ancient crocodiles -- long thought to have walked on all fours like their modern-day cousins -- may have got around on two legs. More...

NASAs New Horizons spacecraft sends back images of stars from its Parallax Experiment - Republic World - Republic World 15-Jun-2020

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NASAs New Horizons spacecraft sends back images of stars from its Parallax Experiment - Republic World - Republic World NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured pictures of nearby stars that appear from its unique vantage point - about 4.3 billion miles from Earth. More...