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The most pristine air on earth can help solve a climate change mystery - Inverse 29-Jun-2020

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The most pristine air on earth can help solve a climate change mystery - Inverse Not all clouds are the same, and climate models have been predicting the wrong kinds of clouds over the Southern Ocean More...

Sky Shorts: Mars should get your attention soon - The-review 29-Jun-2020

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Sky Shorts: Mars should get your attention soon - The-review Showtime for MarsIf you have been watching Mars in the predawn sky, it continues to grow brighter and redder each month.By October, it will outshine More...

Mystery Of The Ninth Planet Could Be Solved | TechQuila | TechQuila - TechQuila 29-Jun-2020

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Mystery Of The Ninth Planet Could Be Solved | TechQuila | TechQuila - TechQuila The title of the Ninth Planet could go to a yet undiscovered distant cousin of our planet in the outer edges of the Solar System. More...

6 Exomoons Discovered In Deep Space, Study Reveals - International Business Times 29-Jun-2020

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6 Exomoons Discovered In Deep Space, Study Reveals - International Business Times A team of researchers claimed to have discovered six exomoons orbiting distant exoplanets. They were able to detect the cosmic bodies using data from NASA’s retired space telescope. More...

WATCH | NASA releases 10-year timelapse of the Sun - Moneycontrol.com 29-Jun-2020

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WATCH | NASA releases 10-year timelapse of the Sun - Moneycontrol.com The video captures the Sun over a period of 10 years into 61 minutes, compiling one photo per hour. More...

NASA announces ‘Lunar Loo Challenge’ to come up with best space toilet for its future lander - Firstpost 29-Jun-2020

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NASA announces ‘Lunar Loo Challenge’ to come up with best space toilet for its future lander - Firstpost The contest began on 25 June and the winner will get $35,000 in total prizes along with public recognition and a winner's certificate. More...

Astronomers observe light flare emerge from the collision of two black holes for the first time - Firstpost 29-Jun-2020

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Astronomers observe light flare emerge from the collision of two black holes for the first time - Firstpost The collision took place 7.5 billion light-years from Earth and the black holes were about the size of Long Island. More...

No asteroid to reportedly zoom past Earth on Asteroid Day: What is it and everything you need to know - Times Now 29-Jun-2020

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No asteroid to reportedly zoom past Earth on Asteroid Day: What is it and everything you need to know - Times Now An asteroid will fly past Earth both a day before and after Asteroid Day, but on June 30 there are reportedly no asteroid threats. More...

INNOVATION: Novel device creates electricity from snowfall - ETEnergyworld.com 29-Jun-2020

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INNOVATION: Novel device creates electricity from snowfall - ETEnergyworld.com The device designed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. More...

SpaceX Notches Next Step in Race With Boeing to Crewed Flights - IndustryWeek 29-Jun-2020

SpaceX Notches Next Step in Race With Boeing to Crewed Flights - IndustryWeek More...

Watch: The Bottom of an Antarctic Glacier - The Maritime Executive 29-Jun-2020

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Watch: The Bottom of an Antarctic Glacier - The Maritime Executive Researchers have taken the first-ever images of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, a glacier about... More...

See Hubble Telescope Pictures Taken on Your Birthday - Mental Floss 29-Jun-2020

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See Hubble Telescope Pictures Taken on Your Birthday - Mental Floss While your parents were snapping a photo of you covered in birthday cake, the Hubble was snapping one of a dust storm on Mars. More...

Archaeology horror: Skeletal remains of children amid 115 burials stun archaeologists - Express.co.uk 29-Jun-2020

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Archaeology horror: Skeletal remains of children amid 115 burials stun archaeologists - Express.co.uk ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the southeast of Poland were surprised by the discovery of a mass burial site of children, counting at least 115 graves. More...

SpaceX postpones launch of Starlink satellites indefinitely - MENAFN.COM 29-Jun-2020

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SpaceX postpones launch of Starlink satellites indefinitely - MENAFN.COM (MENAFN - Trend News Agency) US company SpaceX has postponed for an indefinite date the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket with the ninth group of Starlink satellites, the company said in a Twitter post, Trend reports citing TASS. Standing down from today's Starli… More...

Experiment Proves that We Can Extract Energy from a Black Hole - Webby Feed 29-Jun-2020

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Experiment Proves that We Can Extract Energy from a Black Hole - Webby Feed For the most time since the German physicist Karl Schwarzschild first theorized the existence of black holes in 1916, astronomers thought that these fabulous cosmic objects don’t release any energy.... More...

Scientists explain about second-most distant quasar, black hole growth - ANI News 29-Jun-2020

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Scientists explain about second-most distant quasar, black hole growth - ANI News Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Often described as cosmic lighthouses, quasars are luminous beacons that can be observed at the outskirts of the universe, providing a rich topic of study for astronomers and cosmologists. Now scientists have announced the… More...

Space agencies unveil site showing lockdown changes to Earth - ClickLancashire 29-Jun-2020

Space agencies unveil site showing lockdown changes to Earth - ClickLancashire More...

Scientists: saber-Toothed marsupial tigers could not be cruel, eating soft foods - The Times Hub 29-Jun-2020

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Scientists: saber-Toothed marsupial tigers could not be cruel, eating soft foods - The Times Hub More...

Exoplanet Orbits Star Once a Week; Is Bombarded by Flares - Best gaming pro 29-Jun-2020

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Exoplanet Orbits Star Once a Week; Is Bombarded by Flares - Best gaming pro Round 32 light-years away from Earth, virtually in our yard, lies a dramatic younger star named AU Microscopii or AU Mic for brief. This star is simply 20 to 30 million years previous. This may sound historic, however by star requirements, it’s a child — for … More...

Mother Nature serving up a trifecta of astronomical shows for July - Filmy One 29-Jun-2020

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Mother Nature serving up a trifecta of astronomical shows for July - Filmy One As if Mercury moving backward isn’t enough, July is going to get even wilder for sky watchers. Three more big astronomical happenings are coming up next month — dueling meteor showers and a lunar eclipse, CBS station WUSA9 reported. The lunar eclipse starts a… More...

Research reveals a nest of exceptionally small non-avian theropod egg fossils - HeritageDaily 29-Jun-2020

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Research reveals a nest of exceptionally small non-avian theropod egg fossils - HeritageDaily When most of us think of dinosaurs, we envision large, lumbering beasts, but these giants shared their ecosystems with much smaller dinosaurs, the smaller skeletons of which were generally less likely to be preserved. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News More...

Clouds the Likely Cause of Increased Global Warming in Latest Generation of Climate Models - SciTechDaily 29-Jun-2020

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Clouds the Likely Cause of Increased Global Warming in Latest Generation of Climate Models - SciTechDaily New representations of clouds are making models more sensitive to carbon dioxide. As scientists work to determine why some of the latest climate models suggest the future could be warmer than previously thought, a new study indicates the reason is likely rela… More...

In Roscosmos said about the insecurity of spacecraft Crew Dragon from SpaceX - The Times Hub 29-Jun-2020

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In Roscosmos said about the insecurity of spacecraft Crew Dragon from SpaceX - The Times Hub More...

NASA’s latest exoplanet discovery could help explain how planets evolve - ThePrint 29-Jun-2020

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NASA’s latest exoplanet discovery could help explain how planets evolve - ThePrint ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources. More...

NASA Wallops celebrates 75 years of Space Exploration and Technology Development - Republic World - Republic World 29-Jun-2020

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NASA Wallops celebrates 75 years of Space Exploration and Technology Development - Republic World - Republic World NASA Wallops Flight Facility celebrated the 75th anniversary of its first launch on Saturday. On June 27, 1945, Wallops conducted its first rocket launch More...

Asteroid Day, June 30, live from Luxembourg - EarthSky 29-Jun-2020

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Asteroid Day, June 30, live from Luxembourg - EarthSky The 6th annual Asteroid Day will be held as a digital event on June 30, 2020. It'll feature presentations with experts, panel discussions, and question-and-answer periods. Here's how to participate. More...

International Asteroid Day 2020: How And Why The Day Came to be Marked on June 30 - India.com 29-Jun-2020

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International Asteroid Day 2020: How And Why The Day Came to be Marked on June 30 - India.com The Earth has already witnessed a number of asteroids flying past it in the month of June itself. More...

#SpaceWatchGL Op'ed: Data of Space: Understanding the question - SpaceWatch.Global 29-Jun-2020

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#SpaceWatchGL Op'ed: Data of Space: Understanding the question - SpaceWatch.Global By Ralph "Dinz” Dinsley, Executive Director, Northern Space & Security From the timing signal provided by the Global Navigation Satellite System[1] to spectacular photographic observations of chan More...

Beyond Pluto: the hunt for our solar system's new ninth planet - The Guardian 29-Jun-2020

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Beyond Pluto: the hunt for our solar system's new ninth planet - The Guardian Scientists think a planet larger than Earth lurks in the far reaches of the solar system More...

Gorgeous NASA Simulations Show What Sunsets Would Look Like on Other Worlds - ScienceAlert 29-Jun-2020

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Gorgeous NASA Simulations Show What Sunsets Would Look Like on Other Worlds - ScienceAlert How would the Sun look as it dipped below the horizon on a long (17 hour) day on Uranus? Or what would a late-night sunset on Mars look like, when we finally get there? Thanks to some NASA computer modelling, these scenarios are now a little easier t More...

NASA will pay you a whopping $20,000 to design a toilet for moon - The Indian Express 29-Jun-2020

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NASA will pay you a whopping $20,000 to design a toilet for moon - The Indian Express In an attempt to encourage inventions from the younger lot, they have also announced a prize for the junior category as well. Innovators under 18 years of age will be eligible for the challenge. More...

The mystery of Earth’s vanishing crust solved - Tech Explorist 29-Jun-2020

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The mystery of Earth’s vanishing crust solved - Tech Explorist A team of geochemists has found new evidence that Earth has been consistently churning out crust since its formation 4.5 billion years ago and that some crust is made of ancient, resurfaced chunks. More...

'Mirror, Mirror In Free Fall...' NASA Astronaut Accidentally Drops Piece Of Mirror During Spacewalk - India Times 29-Jun-2020

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'Mirror, Mirror In Free Fall...' NASA Astronaut Accidentally Drops Piece Of Mirror During Spacewalk - India Times An astronaut has dropped a small mirror into space by accident.According to NASA, commander Chris Cassidy lost control of the mirror while he was leaving the International Space Station for a spacewalk to work on batteries. The mirror floated away at about a … More...

“Seriously Strange” New Extinct Family of Giant Wombat Relatives Discovered in Australian Desert - SciTechDaily 29-Jun-2020

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“Seriously Strange” New Extinct Family of Giant Wombat Relatives Discovered in Australian Desert - SciTechDaily A giant marsupial that roamed prehistoric Australia 25 million years ago is so different from its wombat cousins that scientists have had to create a new family to accommodate it. The unique remains of a prehistoric, giant wombat-like marsupial – Mukupirna na… More...

Lockdown improves air quality in Delhi, Mumbai, reveals NASA dashboard; details - The Financial Express 29-Jun-2020

Lockdown improves air quality in Delhi, Mumbai, reveals NASA dashboard; details - The Financial Express More...

More evidence that Europa’s ocean is habitable - EarthSky 29-Jun-2020

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More evidence that Europa’s ocean is habitable - EarthSky A new study shown by NASA scientists at the Goldschmidt conference this week provides further evidence that Europa's ocean is habitable and similar to Earth's oceans. More...

Vega rocket may attempt return to flight with 53-satellite launch tonight. Here's how to watch. - Space.com 29-Jun-2020

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Vega rocket may attempt return to flight with 53-satellite launch tonight. Here's how to watch. - Space.com Liftoff will be at 9:51 p.m. EDT (0151 GMT), weather permitting. More...

Digital poetry — 5 ways to combine human and computer languages - TNW 29-Jun-2020

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Digital poetry — 5 ways to combine human and computer languages - TNW Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social ... More...

Dolphins can learn from peers how to use shells as tools - Finance Brokerage 29-Jun-2020

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Dolphins can learn from peers how to use shells as tools - Finance Brokerage For some bottle dolphins, finding a meal may be about who you know. Dolphins often learn to hunt from their mothers. But when it comes… More...

Nasa's subsequent Mars rover will be referred to as Perseverance - Sprout Wired 29-Jun-2020

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Nasa's subsequent Mars rover will be referred to as Perseverance - Sprout Wired Image copyright NASA/JPL-CALTECH Impression caption Artwork: Perseverance appears to be like the identical as Curiosity but it signifies a step-up... More...

On the largest moon of Saturn discovered a mysterious structure - The Times Hub 29-Jun-2020

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On the largest moon of Saturn discovered a mysterious structure - The Times Hub More...

NASA will pay you to design a space toilet that works in lunar gravity - CNET 29-Jun-2020

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NASA will pay you to design a space toilet that works in lunar gravity - CNET Got an idea for the ultimate lunar loo? You could cash in by helping NASA design a toilet that works in microgravity and on the moon. More...

Could a black hole be the ultimate energy source? Maybe, if you keep feeding it - SYFY WIRE 29-Jun-2020

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Could a black hole be the ultimate energy source? Maybe, if you keep feeding it - SYFY WIRE Space might be where most powerful and just about limitless repositories of energy are lurking. We just don’t know how to harness it yet. Black holes are kind of like dragons guarding their lairs full of treasure. Sure, they’ll give you that thing you’re look… More...

Canadarm3 to support Lunar Gateway space station - NASASpaceflight.com 29-Jun-2020

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Canadarm3 to support Lunar Gateway space station - NASASpaceflight.com Canada is marching forward with its international partners to establish a permanent research installation near… More...

This Week at NASA: Spacewalk, New HQ Name and More - Space Ref 29-Jun-2020

This Week at NASA: Spacewalk, New HQ Name and More - Space Ref More...

How To Achieve Work Life Balance As You Get Back To The Office - Forbes 29-Jun-2020

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How To Achieve Work Life Balance As You Get Back To The Office - Forbes Set or re-set your work-life boundaries as you blend working from home with working from the office. Consider these 5 tips. More...

Scientists Have Demonstrated Quantum Entanglement on a Tiny Satellite Orbiting Earth - ScienceAlert 29-Jun-2020

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Scientists Have Demonstrated Quantum Entanglement on a Tiny Satellite Orbiting Earth - ScienceAlert In the strange field of quantum physics, quantum entanglement – what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" – stands out as one of the most intriguing phenomena. And now scientists just managed to successfully demonstrate it again, this ti More...

NASA video shows 10-year time lapse of Sun in 61 minutes - Telangana Today 29-Jun-2020

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NASA video shows 10-year time lapse of Sun in 61 minutes - Telangana Today Washington: In a stunning hour-long video, NASAs sun-pointing semi-autonomous spacecraft, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, has put together a time lapse of its 10 years of observing the Sun. Over the past 10 years, the spacecraft has gathered 425 million high-… More...

Black Holes Merge In A Brilliant Show Of Light | TechQuila | TechQuila - TechQuila 29-Jun-2020

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Black Holes Merge In A Brilliant Show Of Light | TechQuila | TechQuila - TechQuila A recent study of Black Holes by astronomers has allegedly confirmed the findings of a LIGO detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two Black Holes. More...

Staring at deep red light may significantly improve declining eyesight - Medical Dialogues 29-Jun-2020

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Staring at deep red light may significantly improve declining eyesight - Medical Dialogues Looking at red light may improve age related decline in eyesight. Short bursts of longwave light... More...

China's lunar rover travels about 463 meters on moon's far side - CGTN 29-Jun-2020

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China's lunar rover travels about 463 meters on moon's far side - CGTN More...