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SpaceX or ISRO, Who’s Winning the Race to Space? - The Quint 07-Jul-2020

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SpaceX or ISRO, Who’s Winning the Race to Space? - The Quint ISRO versus SpaceX. Where does India’s premier space agency stand against Elon Musk’s organisation? More...

First Black Hole Photo Confirms Einstein's Theory of Relativity - The Quint 07-Jul-2020

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First Black Hole Photo Confirms Einstein's Theory of Relativity - The Quint To cut a long story short: Einstein was right. More...

Gravitational Waves Detected First Time From Newly Born Blackhole - The Quint 07-Jul-2020

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Gravitational Waves Detected First Time From Newly Born Blackhole - The Quint Researchers have , for the first time, detected a newly born black hole from gravitational waves. More...

Cities Across India Witness First Solar Eclipse of 2020 - The Quint 07-Jul-2020

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Cities Across India Witness First Solar Eclipse of 2020 - The Quint The annular solar eclipse began at 9:15 am in India and is scheduled to reach its peak at 12:10 pm. More...

Burnt to a crisp and crushed to death – how Earth's neighbouring planets would brutally kill you in seconds - Brinkwire 07-Jul-2020

Burnt to a crisp and crushed to death – how Earth's neighbouring planets would brutally kill you in seconds - Brinkwire More...

Science News Roundup: Rocket Lab vehicle fails to reach orbit; Prehistoric ochre mining operation found in submerged Mexican caves - Devdiscourse 07-Jul-2020

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Science News Roundup: Rocket Lab vehicle fails to reach orbit; Prehistoric ochre mining operation found in submerged Mexican caves - Devdiscourse Rocket Lab vehicle fails to reach orbit, loses payload of satellites A rocket from small-satellite launch firm Rocket Lab failed to reach orbit minutes after a successful liftoff from New Zealand on Saturday, the company said, losing its payload of seven sma… More...

Exactly When To See A ‘Buck Moon’ Form A ‘Summer Triangle’ With Our Giant Planets Sunday And Monday - Forbes 07-Jul-2020

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Exactly When To See A ‘Buck Moon’ Form A ‘Summer Triangle’ With Our Giant Planets Sunday And Monday - Forbes A near-full Moon will creep-up on Jupiter, then Saturn in a double-header of beautiful planetary “conjunctions” that begin the year’s best month for planet-gazing. More...

Check Out NASA’s Crazy Time-Lapse of the Sun Featuring 425 Million Images - Beebom 07-Jul-2020

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Check Out NASA’s Crazy Time-Lapse of the Sun Featuring 425 Million Images - Beebom NASA recently released a new time-lapse that shows the activities on the surface of our Sun. It is composed of 425 million images captured by the SDO. More...

Scientists Discover New Exotic Tetraquark Particle Using Large Hadron Collider At CERN - International Business Times, Singapore Edition 07-Jul-2020

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Scientists Discover New Exotic Tetraquark Particle Using Large Hadron Collider At CERN - International Business Times, Singapore Edition The new discovery of the tetraquark will help scientists study matter particles and strong interactions between them called quantum chromodynamics More...

Unprecedented Ground-Based Discovery of 2 Strongly Interacting Exoplanets - SciTechDaily 07-Jul-2020

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Unprecedented Ground-Based Discovery of 2 Strongly Interacting Exoplanets - SciTechDaily Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground of an extrasolar system of this type. An international collaboration including CN… More...

Researchers have determined the amount of energy in the center of the milky Way - lintelligencer 07-Jul-2020

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Researchers have determined the amount of energy in the center of the milky Way - lintelligencer More...

Massive Black Hole Is Eating One Sun a Day as It Keeps Growing - MovieWeb 07-Jul-2020

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Massive Black Hole Is Eating One Sun a Day as It Keeps Growing - MovieWeb New research led by The Australian National University shows just how massive the fastest growing black hole in the universe really is. More...

ISRO's MOM captures image of the biggest moon of Mars - കേരള കൌമുദി 07-Jul-2020

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ISRO's MOM captures image of the biggest moon of Mars - കേരള കൌമുദി BENGALURU: The Mars Colour Camera (MCC) onboard ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission has captured the image of Phobos, the closest and biggest moon of Mars. More...

The fastest-growing black hole in the universe has a massive appetite - News-Daily.com 07-Jul-2020

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The fastest-growing black hole in the universe has a massive appetite - News-Daily.com The fastest-growing black hole in the universe is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and feasts on a meal the equivalent of our sun each day, according to More...

Pentadiamond outshines the original - Chemical & Engineering News 07-Jul-2020

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Pentadiamond outshines the original - Chemical & Engineering News A theoretical material made of carbon pentagons is lighter and stiffer than a standard diamond More...

Animal Crossing New Horizons July Sea Creatures, Fish and Bugs update - Express 07-Jul-2020

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Animal Crossing New Horizons July Sea Creatures, Fish and Bugs update - Express A NEW Animal Crossing New Horizons July update has arrived, bringing with it a new group of Sea Creatures to discover, alongside the refresh Summer list of Bugs and Fish available to catch. More...

Gigantic Sea Scorpions, Some Larger Than Humans, Hunted in Ancient Oceans - ScienceAlert 07-Jul-2020

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Gigantic Sea Scorpions, Some Larger Than Humans, Hunted in Ancient Oceans - ScienceAlert Let's turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the "Great Dying" extinction wiped out 95 percent of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era. More...

This is what a fabric face mask should look like to be more effective - Health24 07-Jul-2020

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This is what a fabric face mask should look like to be more effective - Health24 According to research that made use of simulated coughs and sneezes, masks should fit properly and be multi-layered to offer good protection. More...

Balloon ride to space? Florida-based company plans to send passengers and payloads to edge of space - Firstpost 07-Jul-2020

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Balloon ride to space? Florida-based company plans to send passengers and payloads to edge of space - Firstpost Most stars in the universe are born in huge star clusters as they are the building blocks of galaxies but their formation remains a mystery. More...

Meet the socially distant robot scientist - BBC News - BBC News 07-Jul-2020

Meet the socially distant robot scientist - BBC News - BBC News More...

Scientists found the center of the Solar System, and it's not where you think - Inverse 07-Jul-2020

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Scientists found the center of the Solar System, and it's not where you think - Inverse Using the signals of pulsar stars, scientists have pinpointed the center of the Solar System to 100 meters. More...

Glacial ice on Italy's Alps turns a shade of pink due to algae, leads to concerns of melting - Firstpost 07-Jul-2020

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Glacial ice on Italy's Alps turns a shade of pink due to algae, leads to concerns of melting - Firstpost Normally ice reflects more than 80 percent of the sun's radiation, however, because the algae absorb the heat and the ice starts to melt faster. More...

The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery - WIRED 07-Jul-2020

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The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery - WIRED A quarter-billion years ago, huge volcanic eruptions burned coal, leading to the worst extinction in Earth’s history. Here’s how scientists hunted down the evidence. More...

Giant Penguin-like Birds Lived in the Northern Hemisphere 62 Million Years Ago, Study Shows - News18 07-Jul-2020

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Giant Penguin-like Birds Lived in the Northern Hemisphere 62 Million Years Ago, Study Shows - News18 These birds, strikingly similar to the New Zealand’s penguins, lived in Japan, the USA and Canada around 62 million years ago. More...

Unusual planetary system where exoplanets influence each other's orbit speed spotted - Moneycontrol.com 07-Jul-2020

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Unusual planetary system where exoplanets influence each other's orbit speed spotted - Moneycontrol.com Usually, a planet that is not influenced by another planet moves with a constant period. But, WASP-148b and WASP-148c changed their speed frequently, providing evidence of strong interaction between them. More...

Calling it “last night’s fireworks”, NASA astronaut shares pictures of Neowise comet - The Indian Express 07-Jul-2020

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Calling it “last night’s fireworks”, NASA astronaut shares pictures of Neowise comet - The Indian Express Astronaut Bob Behnken shared several pictures of the comet captured by the ISS camera and it has since been shared widely on social media. More...

Highly effective and safe nanocrystal can fight against dangerous doses of radiation - News-Medical.Net 07-Jul-2020

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Highly effective and safe nanocrystal can fight against dangerous doses of radiation - News-Medical.Net Despite the wide application of radiation in diagnostics and treatments, there is still no magic material to protect people from radiation exposure. More...

Vaisala and FMI Technology Heads to Mars Onboard NASA's Perseverance Rover - IEN Europe 07-Jul-2020

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Vaisala and FMI Technology Heads to Mars Onboard NASA's Perseverance Rover - IEN Europe International collaboration takes Vaisala and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) to Mars onboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The rover is scheduled to launch on July 30, 2020. More...

Biggest asteroid this year flew between Earth and Moon.Scientists realised it 2 days later - Hindustan Times 07-Jul-2020

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Biggest asteroid this year flew between Earth and Moon.Scientists realised it 2 days later - Hindustan Times Dubbed 2020 LD and measuring nearly 100 metres in diameter , the asteroid, travelling at a speed of 60,826 miles per hour - came closer to Earth than even the Moon on June 5. More...

A Vast Stream of Flowing Stars Is Evidence of The Milky Way's Violent History - ScienceAlert 07-Jul-2020

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A Vast Stream of Flowing Stars Is Evidence of The Milky Way's Violent History - ScienceAlert When you go outside and look at the sky on a clear night, it seems like nothing else could be as serene and peaceful. But many of those seemingly peaceful stars are evidence of a turbulent history - and now we're learning to unlock their secrets. More...

'Pregnancy test for water' delivers fast, easy results on water quality - Phys.org 07-Jul-2020

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'Pregnancy test for water' delivers fast, easy results on water quality - Phys.org A new platform technology can assess water safety and quality with just a single drop and a few minutes. More...

Study: A Powerful Laser to Investigate a New Kind of Physics - lintelligencer 07-Jul-2020

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Study: A Powerful Laser to Investigate a New Kind of Physics - lintelligencer More...

A 'breath of nothing' provides a new perspective on superconductivity - Phys.org 07-Jul-2020

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A 'breath of nothing' provides a new perspective on superconductivity - Phys.org Zero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power distribution. But so far, the origin of superconductivity at high temperature is only incompletely understood. Sci… More...

New nano-engineering strategy shows potential for improved advanced energy storage - Phys.org 07-Jul-2020

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New nano-engineering strategy shows potential for improved advanced energy storage - Phys.org The rapid development of renewable energy resources has triggered tremendous demands in large-scale, cost-efficient and high-energy-density stationary energy storage systems. More...

2D semiconductors found to be close-to-ideal fractional quantum hall platform - Nanowerk 07-Jul-2020

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2D semiconductors found to be close-to-ideal fractional quantum hall platform - Nanowerk Researchers discover a quantum fluid - fractional quantum Hall states, one of the most delicate phases of matter - in a monolayer 2D semiconductor; finding could provide a unique test platform for future applications in quantum computing. More...

Seeking an 'exit plan' for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries - Nature.com 07-Jul-2020

Seeking an 'exit plan' for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries - Nature.com The pandemic is prompting some early-career researchers to rethink their hopes for a university post. More...

New Bird Song That 'Went Viral' Across Species of Sparrow Tracked by Scientists For First Time - Good News Network 07-Jul-2020

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New Bird Song That 'Went Viral' Across Species of Sparrow Tracked by Scientists For First Time - Good News Network A song that ‘went viral’ across a bird species has been tracked by scientists showing the white-throated sparrow’s new tune is here to stay. More...

Lunar gold rush: can Moon mining ever take off? - Mining Technology 07-Jul-2020

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Lunar gold rush: can Moon mining ever take off? - Mining Technology The Moon could harbour more metals than had previously been believed beneath its surface, according to research conducted using NASA data. The new revelations about the Moon’s geological composition may affect theories as to the celestial body’s origin, bu… More...

Scientists discover a new connection between the eyes and touch - Medical Xpress 07-Jul-2020

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Scientists discover a new connection between the eyes and touch - Medical Xpress Tiny eye movements can be used as an index of humans' ability to anticipate relevant information in the environment independent of the information's sensory modality, a team of scientists has found. The work reveals a connection between eye movements and the … More...

SpaceX Starship: incredible Falcon 9 comparison shows why fans are excited - Inverse 07-Jul-2020

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SpaceX Starship: incredible Falcon 9 comparison shows why fans are excited - Inverse The Starship, SpaceX's giant ship destined for the moon and Mars, overshadows its Falcon 9 predecessor in more ways than one. More...

Countdown to First Arab Mission to Mars - Bloomberg QuickTake News 07-Jul-2020

Countdown to First Arab Mission to Mars - Bloomberg QuickTake News More...

Tag: EPA and DHA Market Applications - 3rd Watch News 07-Jul-2020

Tag: EPA and DHA Market Applications - 3rd Watch News More...

The 1066 diet: Normans passed on their love of pork, study suggests - The Guardian 07-Jul-2020

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The 1066 diet: Normans passed on their love of pork, study suggests - The Guardian Study suggests pork and possibly chicken became more popular after arrival of William the Conqueror More...

Exoplanet in the hot-Neptune desert is the first of its kind - Ars Technica 07-Jul-2020

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Exoplanet in the hot-Neptune desert is the first of its kind - Ars Technica Hello, planetary delivery service? I'll take one gas giant, hold the gas. More...

NASA Provides Update on Commercial Crew Program, Close Call Review of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test - NASA 07-Jul-2020

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NASA Provides Update on Commercial Crew Program, Close Call Review of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test - NASA NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, to discuss the outcome of its High Visibility Close Call review of the December 2019 uncrewed Orbital Flight Test of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. More...

First direct evidence of ocean mixing across the Gulf Stream - Phys.org 07-Jul-2020

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First direct evidence of ocean mixing across the Gulf Stream - Phys.org New research provides the first direct evidence for the Gulf Stream blender effect, identifying a new mechanism of mixing water across the swift-moving current. The results have important implications for weather, climate and fisheries because ocean mixing pl… More...

Why a nearby “boring” star system could have two habitable planets? - Medium 07-Jul-2020

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Why a nearby “boring” star system could have two habitable planets? - Medium Stars spewing out radiation and charged particles is a pretty common phenomenon. Our Sun does the same but a thick atmosphere and a strong magnetic field around the Earth protects us from the wrath… More...

Modest insect-munching Madagascar reptile was forerunner to dinosaurs - Investing.com 07-Jul-2020

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Modest insect-munching Madagascar reptile was forerunner to dinosaurs - Investing.com Modest insect-munching Madagascar reptile was forerunner to dinosaurs More...

The Era of New Artificial Researchers Gains Momentum | TechQuila - TechQuila 07-Jul-2020

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The Era of New Artificial Researchers Gains Momentum | TechQuila - TechQuila Artificial intelligence is now capable of performing science experiments and learning from the results. Find out more about the artificial researchers. More...

Rare night clouds may be warning sign of climate crisis - The Guardian 07-Jul-2020

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Rare night clouds may be warning sign of climate crisis - The Guardian Noctilucent clouds, on the edge of the atmosphere, are increasingly seen outside of polar regions More...

Artemis Generation Students Across US to Speak with NASA Astronaut in Space - Space Ref 07-Jul-2020

Artemis Generation Students Across US to Speak with NASA Astronaut in Space - Space Ref Artemis Generation Students Across US to Speak with NASA Astronaut in Space - SpaceRef More...

There's a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day - Universe Today 07-Jul-2020

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There's a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day - Universe Today In the 1960s, astronomers began theorizing that there might be black holes in the Universe that are so massive – supermassive black holes (SMBHs) – they could power the nuclei of active galaxies (aka. quasars). A decade later, astronomers discovered that an S… More...

Atomic 'Swiss Army knife' precisely measures materials for quantum computers - Phys.org 07-Jul-2020

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Atomic 'Swiss Army knife' precisely measures materials for quantum computers - Phys.org It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal and insulating surfaces. And it records the flow of current across atom-thin materials subject to giant magnetic fields. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (… More...

A massive fireball appeared over Tokyo, and we have the video - BGR 07-Jul-2020

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A massive fireball appeared over Tokyo, and we have the video - BGR A space rock entered Earth’s atmosphere over Tokyo, producing a brilliant flash and a loud sonic boom. The incident was captured on video, showing the fireball lighting up and then fizzling out. No damage was reported but the sonic boom was heard for great di… More...

Astronomers have discovered in the Universe a new source of carbon - The Times Hub 07-Jul-2020

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Astronomers have discovered in the Universe a new source of carbon - The Times Hub More...

Scientists discover the biggest asteroid of the year 2 days after it flies between the Moon and the Earth - NEWS HEADS 07-Jul-2020

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Scientists discover the biggest asteroid of the year 2 days after it flies between the Moon and the Earth - NEWS HEADS Space is an interesting thing to know about and our space scientist are usually very informed. In fact, they usually have detailed information about when, where, what how and why something is happening or about to happen out there in the space. Now asteroids … More...