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The SpaceX Crew Dragon: This Ain’t Your Parents’ Space Shuttle - ENGINEERING.com 17-Jun-2020

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The SpaceX Crew Dragon: This Ain’t Your Parents’ Space Shuttle - ENGINEERING.com History-making private spacecraft opens up U.S.-based astronaut travel again. More...

Women's communication plays key role in household during lockdown - THE WEEK 17-Jun-2020

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Women's communication plays key role in household during lockdown - THE WEEK Partner communication is the most important factor linking the division of household More...

Hackers Have Found A Way To Spy On Conversations Using A Light Bulb - Ubergizmo FR 17-Jun-2020

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Hackers Have Found A Way To Spy On Conversations Using A Light Bulb - Ubergizmo FR In the past, we have heard of various attempts to spy on users through all kinds of methods, such as hijacking your computer’s webcam/microphone, smart speakers, and so on. However, it seems that hackers might have discovered a potentially new way to spy on p… More...

Loneliness makes it harder to quit smoking: Study - Sify News 17-Jun-2020

Loneliness makes it harder to quit smoking: Study - Sify News Bristol [England], June 16 (ANI): Researchers have found evidence for a causal link between the prolonged experience of loneliness and smoking in a recent study. More...

NASA New Horizons spacecraft returns stunning images of previously unseen 'parallax effect' - Firstpost 17-Jun-2020

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NASA New Horizons spacecraft returns stunning images of previously unseen 'parallax effect' - Firstpost The spacecraft has observed how Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 appear in different positions than when observed from Earth than deep space. More...

Footprints of Ancient, Walking Crocodiles Discovered In South Korea - The Swaddle 17-Jun-2020

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Footprints of Ancient, Walking Crocodiles Discovered In South Korea - The Swaddle Scientists believe that fossil footprints made more than a 100 million years ago belong to crocodile-like animals that "ran like ostriches." More...

Hubble took the unusual galaxy - The Times Hub 17-Jun-2020

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Hubble took the unusual galaxy - The Times Hub More...

KBR wins $570 million contract for NASA spaceflight operation - Times Now 17-Jun-2020

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KBR wins $570 million contract for NASA spaceflight operation - Times Now Under the contract, KBR will perform International Space Station payload operations and support the testing of NASA's flagship space launch system. More...

Explained: What is NASA’s Gateway lunar orbiting outpost? - The Indian Express 17-Jun-2020

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Explained: What is NASA’s Gateway lunar orbiting outpost? - The Indian Express NASA has described the Gateway as key to the new era of lunar explorations both in the orbit and on the surface of the Moon. More...

Wildfires change the types of songs sung by birds - Tech Explorist 17-Jun-2020

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Wildfires change the types of songs sung by birds - Tech Explorist Scientists found that song dialects tended to be isolated from each other within different forest types, but that in contrast, local song diversity increased with the amount of local fire and regional habitat. More...

Blue neon meteor flashes across the night sky in Australia - The Independent 17-Jun-2020

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Blue neon meteor flashes across the night sky in Australia - The Independent A meteor was spotted flashing across Australian skies. Footage captures the object leaving a neon trail in the remote Pilbara region. Like us on Facebook: ht... More...

Evidence for volcanic craters on Saturn's moon Titan - Telangana Today 17-Jun-2020

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Evidence for volcanic craters on Saturn's moon Titan - Telangana Today Washington: Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue for a day, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles … More...

How Elon Musk's Starlink Could Disrupt The Telecommunications Industry - Medium 17-Jun-2020

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How Elon Musk's Starlink Could Disrupt The Telecommunications Industry - Medium Starlink, of SpaceX, is a satellite constellation project being developed by Elon Musk and team to give satellite Internet go-to access for people in any part of the world. The heavenly body will… More...

Scientists have identified the fossil of pteridophytes plants age 350 million years as a new type - The Times Hub 17-Jun-2020

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Scientists have identified the fossil of pteridophytes plants age 350 million years as a new type - The Times Hub More...

When were the *very* first stars born? Earlier than we can see, even with Hubble - SYFY WIRE 17-Jun-2020

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When were the *very* first stars born? Earlier than we can see, even with Hubble - SYFY WIRE When you look up at the night sky, you can see thousands of stars. The fact that they're there at all implies they had a beginning, and we know stars can exist for billions of years. We see them die, and we see them being born. It's not a huge leap of logic t… More...

Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the sun - Phys.org 17-Jun-2020

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Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the sun - Phys.org ESA's sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometers to its surface, about half the distance between the sun and Earth. More...

Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female - Phys.org 17-Jun-2020

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Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female - Phys.org Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. More...

Solar Eclipse 2020: Total annular solar eclipse to ta..1 June in some parts of India, partial in other parts - Firstpost 17-Jun-2020

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Solar Eclipse 2020: Total annular solar eclipse to ta..1 June in some parts of India, partial in other parts - Firstpost In Kolkata, the partial eclipse will begin at 10.46 am and end at 2.17 pm, from 10.20 am to 1.48 pm in New Delhi, from 10.00 am to 1.27 pm in Mumbai, More...

Stunning images of SpaceX's latest Starlink satellite launch - Daily Mail 17-Jun-2020

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Stunning images of SpaceX's latest Starlink satellite launch - Daily Mail The images surfaced on social media as space fans took to their gardens to watch the 5:21 a.m. EDT (10:21 GMT) launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on June 13. More...

Research reveals how material defects influence melting process - India Education Diary 17-Jun-2020

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Research reveals how material defects influence melting process - India Education Diary In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory of how phase changes could occur in two-dimensional materials. Experiments soon showed that the theory… More...

Spacecraft detects strange green glow on Mars which has never been seen before - Yahoo India News 17-Jun-2020

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Spacecraft detects strange green glow on Mars which has never been seen before - Yahoo India News An orbiting spacecraft has detected a strange green glow on Mars which has only ever been seen on one planet - Earth. More...

The US coronavirus response is a national disgrace - Business Insider India 17-Jun-2020

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The US coronavirus response is a national disgrace - Business Insider India Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today. Please sign up here. QUOTE OF THE DAY If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, More...

Art students hold degree show... on Mars - CGTN 17-Jun-2020

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Art students hold degree show... on Mars - CGTN Undaunted by lockdown measures, artists from Liverpool John Moores University have held a virtual end-of-course showcase, which attracted 220,000 hits on its first weekend. More...

PR Newswire - Students from Across US to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station - IT News Online 17-Jun-2020

PR Newswire - Students from Across US to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station - IT News Online Students from Across US to Speak with NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station More...

Online popular lecture on 'Eclipse and its Types' to be held today | Bhopal NYOOOZ - NYOOOZ 17-Jun-2020

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Online popular lecture on 'Eclipse and its Types' to be held today | Bhopal NYOOOZ - NYOOOZ An online popular lecture on “Eclipse and its Types” based on Annular Solar Eclipse will be held on Wednesday. The Director of Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi ,Nandivada Rathnashree, will address the popular online lecture. She will be discussing about Annular S… More...

NASA says JWST won't be ready for launch in March 2021 - Spaceflight Now 17-Jun-2020

NASA says JWST won't be ready for launch in March 2021 - Spaceflight Now More...