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Solar Eclipse to be visible in Mumbai on June 21; check out timings, DOs and DON'Ts - Mumbai Mirror 23-Jun-2020

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Solar Eclipse to be visible in Mumbai on June 21; check out timings, DOs and DON'Ts - Mumbai Mirror The eclipse of Sunday, June 21 will be the annular solar eclipse. Considering the earth as a whole, the partial phase of the eclipse will begin at 9:16 am and the annular phase will begin at 10:19 am More...

CERN approves plans for a $23 billion, 62-mile long super-collider - Engadget 23-Jun-2020

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CERN approves plans for a $23 billion, 62-mile long super-collider - Engadget CERN has approved plans to build a $23 billion super-collider 100 km in diameter (62 miles) that would make the current 27 km 16 teraelectron volt (TeV) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) look tiny in comparison. More...

New model challenges idea that Pluto started out frozen - Ars Technica 23-Jun-2020

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New model challenges idea that Pluto started out frozen - Ars Technica Surface images used to test “cold start” vs. “hot start” ideas. More...

Youngest hot Jupitar offers new clues to formation of exotic worlds - Business Standard 23-Jun-2020

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Youngest hot Jupitar offers new clues to formation of exotic worlds - Business Standard HIP 67522 b was identified as a planet candidate by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which detects planets via the transit method More...

Scientists provide new explanation for Moon's strange asymmetry - DNA India 23-Jun-2020

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Scientists provide new explanation for Moon's strange asymmetry - DNA India The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. More...

eROSITA Telescope Provides Deepest View of the X-Ray Sky With More Than One Million Objects - Interesting Engineering 23-Jun-2020

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eROSITA Telescope Provides Deepest View of the X-Ray Sky With More Than One Million Objects - Interesting Engineering This image from eROSITA is about 4 times deeper than the previous all-sky survey by the ROSAT telescope produced 30 years ago. More...

Two Suns Appear In US-Canada Border! - Sakshi English 23-Jun-2020

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Two Suns Appear In US-Canada Border! - Sakshi English Social Media is the platform where most of the folks share some of the interesting things. On the other hand,...... More...

Biologists unravel tangled mystery of plant cell growth - Phys.org 23-Jun-2020

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Biologists unravel tangled mystery of plant cell growth - Phys.org When cells don't divide into proper copies of themselves, living things fail to grow as they should. For the first time, scientists now understand how a protein called TANGLED1 can lead to accurate cell division in plants. More...

World's fastest Bose-Einstein condensate - EurekAlert 23-Jun-2020

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World's fastest Bose-Einstein condensate - EurekAlert New research published in Nature Communications can make elusive state of matter in record time More...

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope displays two stars going haywire; see pics - Zee News 23-Jun-2020

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NASAs Hubble Space Telescope displays two stars going haywire; see pics - Zee News The recent glimpses shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration s (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope shows how two planetary nebulae NGC 6032 and NGC 7027 are going haywire. More...

There could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy - Engadget 23-Jun-2020

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There could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy - Engadget The findings could have a big impact on future space missions. More...

ESA highlights protection for our planet ahead of Asteroid Day - Phys.org 23-Jun-2020

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ESA highlights protection for our planet ahead of Asteroid Day - Phys.org The United Nations' International Asteroid Day on 30 June highlights ESA's expanding efforts to secure our future by understanding and addressing risks posed by near-Earth objects that could impact our planet. More...

CERN Council endorses building larger supercollider - Phys.org 23-Jun-2020

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CERN Council endorses building larger supercollider - Phys.org The CERN Council has unanimously endorsed the idea of building a newer, larger circular supercollider, dubbed the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The group made the announcement on June 19. The move is the first step toward building a 100 TeV 100-kilometer ci… More...

Are We Going To See The Death Of The Open-Plan Office? - Qrius 23-Jun-2020

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Are We Going To See The Death Of The Open-Plan Office? - Qrius Not quite, but a revolution is in the air More...

Pluto May Have Started Hot And Contained An Ocean, According To New Discovery - WJZ 23-Jun-2020

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Pluto May Have Started Hot And Contained An Ocean, According To New Discovery - WJZ Today, the dwarf planet Pluto orbits the sun from the edge of our solar system and its surface temperature is an inhospitable negative 378 to negative 396 de... More...

SpaceX Is Inviting People To Test Internet Beamed By Its Starlink Constellation - Mashable India 23-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Is Inviting People To Test Internet Beamed By Its Starlink Constellation - Mashable India SpaceX’s Starlink constellation aims to provide high-speed broadband internet all over the world directly from space with of the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The company is launching another batch of Starlink along with the two Earth observation microsat… More...

Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthouses - Phys.org 23-Jun-2020

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Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthouses - Phys.org For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. Their lights swept across the water, cutting through fog and darkness, guiding mariners around dangerous obstacles and keeping them on the right path. In the future, space explorers may re… More...

Why the far side of the Moon so different from near side - National Herald 23-Jun-2020

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Why the far side of the Moon so different from near side - National Herald The composition of the Moon’s near side that is perpetually Earth-facing is oddly different from its far side which always faces away from Earth and scientists think they finally understand why More...

Water Softeners: The Benefits of Using Them and How to Do It - Chiang Rai Times 23-Jun-2020

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Water Softeners: The Benefits of Using Them and How to Do It - Chiang Rai Times If you’re living in a house with hard water running through the pipes, you’ll probably have to get a water softener to deal with the unsightly build-up all over your pipes and fixtures. If the hard water build-up is something that you have to deal with on a r… More...

Wildlife scientists examine the great 'human pause' - BBC News 23-Jun-2020

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Wildlife scientists examine the great 'human pause' - BBC News Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human activity. More...