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Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA - Futurism 19-Jun-2020

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Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA - Futurism These human stem cells "have Neanderthal DNA naturally inside them." More...

How Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon next year - Filmy One 19-Jun-2020

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How Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon next year - Filmy One Rocket Lab is known for launching tiny satellites into Earth, but the company has big plans to venture deeper into space, with its first mission to the Moon set for next year. Thanks to a contract with NASA, Rocket Lab will send a small spacecraft called CAPS… More...

SOLAR SPECTACLE: The Annular Solar Eclipse - Times Now 19-Jun-2020

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SOLAR SPECTACLE: The Annular Solar Eclipse - Times Now A solar eclipse happens when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth and blocks out the Sun's rays from reaching the Earth but what makes this one so special and maybe a bit unusual is that it is an ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE, instead of the fiery ring we usu… More...

From lab to space: Discovery of new organic molecule in interstellar molecular cloud - ANI News 19-Jun-2020

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From lab to space: Discovery of new organic molecule in interstellar molecular cloud - ANI News Washington D.C. [USA], June 17 (ANI): Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations conducted by the Italian Nat… More...

Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby - Yahoo India News 19-Jun-2020

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Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby - Yahoo India News Washington DC [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers discovered a remarkable neutron star known as Swift J1818.0-1607, which according to the new study is only about 240 years old -- a veritable newborn by cosmic standards. NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory s… More...

Mysterious Green ‘Fireball’ Seen Flying Over Australia - Nerdist 19-Jun-2020

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Mysterious Green ‘Fireball’ Seen Flying Over Australia - Nerdist A green "fireball" was captured flying over Australia, and experts mostly have guesses as to what the mysterious object may be. More...

New US-UK agreement boosts UK’s spaceport plans - Geospatial World 19-Jun-2020

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New US-UK agreement boosts UK’s spaceport plans - Geospatial World UK Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation, Christopher Ford, signed the US-UK Technology Safeguards Agreement, which will enable U.S. companies to participate in space launches from … More...

SpaceX Starlink is looking for beta testers located in "high altitude" areas for its satellite internet service - The Tech Portal 19-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Starlink is looking for beta testers located in "high altitude" areas for its satellite internet service - The Tech Portal SpaceX's satellite-powered internet platform, 'Starlink', is now officially looking for applicants to beta test its service. More...

Why pulsars shine bright, a five-decade-old mystery solved - Hindustan Times 19-Jun-2020

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Why pulsars shine bright, a five-decade-old mystery solved - Hindustan Times When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilisation. More...

NASA's Next Mars Rover Perseverance Honours Medical Teams Fighting Coronavirus - Gadgets 360 19-Jun-2020

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NASA's Next Mars Rover Perseverance Honours Medical Teams Fighting Coronavirus - Gadgets 360 NASA’s next Mars rover Perseverance is honouring all the medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle around the world. More...

Dark Matter Experiment in Italy predicts presence of axions underneath Italian Mountain - Republic World - Republic World 19-Jun-2020

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Dark Matter Experiment in Italy predicts presence of axions underneath Italian Mountain - Republic World - Republic World A team of scientists have conducted a dark matter experiment in Italy. The Xenon1T experiment points to the presence of axions underneath a mountain. More...

There are almost 6 billion earth-like planets present in our galaxy - Tech Explorist 19-Jun-2020

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There are almost 6 billion earth-like planets present in our galaxy - Tech Explorist For centuries, humans have wondered whether Earth is unique in the universe, or if similar planets exist out there. The planets considered Earth-like are More...

Youngest Known Magnetar Discovered 16,000 Light-Years Away From Earth - Gadgets 360 19-Jun-2020

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Youngest Known Magnetar Discovered 16,000 Light-Years Away From Earth - Gadgets 360 Astronomers have discovered the youngest known magnetar about 16,000 light-years away from Earth. It is being called Swift J1818.0-1607. A study explaining the discovery of this magnetar states it is about 240 years old which makes it quite new and young by c… More...

Scientists detected a new organic molecule in our galaxy’s molecular cloud - Tech Explorist 19-Jun-2020

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Scientists detected a new organic molecule in our galaxy’s molecular cloud - Tech Explorist Scientists have identified a new molecule called propargylimine in the molecular cloud known as G+0.693-0.027, close to the Galactic centre. More...

Mysterious Green 'Fireball' Streaks Through Skies in Australia, Leaving Viewers Baffled - News18 19-Jun-2020

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Mysterious Green 'Fireball' Streaks Through Skies in Australia, Leaving Viewers Baffled - News18 An unidentified green "glow" travelling across the sky in remote West Australia caught people by surprise. More...

Green glow detected in atmosphere of Mars: What does it mean for researchers? - Republic World - Republic World 19-Jun-2020

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Green glow detected in atmosphere of Mars: What does it mean for researchers? - Republic World - Republic World Scientists’ several years of quest finally ended when European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) detected glowing green oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars. More...

Elon Musk developing floating spaceports to take humans to Mars - Hindustan Times 19-Jun-2020

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Elon Musk developing floating spaceports to take humans to Mars - Hindustan Times Starship is the next-generation transportation system designed to take people to and from the moon, Mars and anywhere on Earth. More...

NASA Mission to Investigate One of the Solar System’s Most Unusual Worlds: Neptune’s Strange Moon Triton - SciTechDaily 19-Jun-2020

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NASA Mission to Investigate One of the Solar System’s Most Unusual Worlds: Neptune’s Strange Moon Triton - SciTechDaily One of four concepts being considered for a Discovery Program mission, Trident would investigate one of the solar system's most unusual worlds. When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune's strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary scie… More...

Astronomers detect first regular fast radio bursts with origins unknown - WION 19-Jun-2020

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Astronomers detect first regular fast radio bursts with origins unknown - WION FRBs are short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects. It has not been made clear by science as to what those objects might be. More...

X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days - ANI News 19-Jun-2020

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X-rays from newborn star hint at sun's earliest days - ANI News Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of the evolution of a star like our Sun. This discovery, made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, may help answer some questions about th… More...

SpaceX preps another Starlink mission in pursuit of new launch record - CNET 19-Jun-2020

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SpaceX preps another Starlink mission in pursuit of new launch record - CNET The company's broadband constellation is nearly big enough to start service. More...

Zooming-in to NGC 6302 - HubbleESA 19-Jun-2020

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Zooming-in to NGC 6302 - HubbleESA This video zooms into the planetary nebula NGC 6302, commonly known as the Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3800 light-ye... More...

Science News Roundup: Fossils from Mongolia, Argentina show some dinosaurs and Antarctica's 'deflated football' fossil is world's second-biggest egg - Devdiscourse 19-Jun-2020

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Science News Roundup: Fossils from Mongolia, Argentina show some dinosaurs and Antarctica's 'deflated football' fossil is world's second-biggest egg - Devdiscourse The embryo-containing eggs - leathery on the outside rather than hard and calcified like those of birds - belonged to a dinosaur from Patagonia called Mussaurus from about 200 million years ago and one called Protoceratops from the Gobi Desert from about 75 m… More...

A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will take place on Sunday — here's how to see it - Business Insider India 19-Jun-2020

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A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will take place on Sunday — here's how to see it - Business Insider India A rare ring of fire solar eclipse will take place on Sunday. This type of annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon is at the farthest point in its orbit More...

San Diego makes mark on Mars 2020 rover - ABC 10 News 19-Jun-2020

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San Diego makes mark on Mars 2020 rover - ABC 10 News San Diego makes mark on Mars 2020 rover More...

Football-sized fossil found in Antarctica is second-largest egg belonging to any known animal - Times Now 19-Jun-2020

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Football-sized fossil found in Antarctica is second-largest egg belonging to any known animal - Times Now The researchers said that the creature would need to be more than 200 feet long from snout to the end of its body, not including the tail, to lay an egg like this. More...