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Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express 21-Jul-2020

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express More...

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express 21-Jul-2020

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express More...

United Arab Emirates launches mission to Mars - Gadgets Now 21-Jul-2020

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United Arab Emirates launches mission to Mars - Gadgets Now The United Arab Emirates launched its first mission to Mars as it strives to develop its scientific and technological capabilities and reduce its reliance on oil. The Hope Probe blasted off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 1:58 a.m. UAE time/6:58 a.m.… More...

First 'Non-Cuttable' Material in the World: Proteus - Interesting Engineering 21-Jul-2020

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First 'Non-Cuttable' Material in the World: Proteus - Interesting Engineering A team of researchers have created a non-cuttable material that could be used in bike locks. More...

Why Are People Angry at Witches on TikTok? - Rolling Stone 21-Jul-2020

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Why Are People Angry at Witches on TikTok? - Rolling Stone Some "baby witches" put a hex on the moon — and Marianne Williamson wasn't pleased More...

Beyond the Milky Way, scientists discover galactic wall hidden in 'plain sight' - Deccan Herald 21-Jul-2020

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Beyond the Milky Way, scientists discover galactic wall hidden in 'plain sight' - Deccan Herald Astronomers have discovered that there is a vast wall across the southern border of the local cosmos. The South Pole Wall, as it is known, consists of thousands of galaxies — beehives of trillions of stars and dark worlds, as well as dust and gas — aligned in… More...

NEOWISE: Rare comet trails night skies across the globe - WION 21-Jul-2020

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NEOWISE: Rare comet trails night skies across the globe - WION The newly discovered comet 'NEOWISE' or C/2020 F3 dazzled the night sky on Earth this month and left behind a tail of gas and dust debris as it moved through the sky. Let's take a look: More...

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express 21-Jul-2020

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express More...

NASA's Mars Rover Spent the Weekend Shooting a Weird-Looking Rock With a Laser - Futurism 21-Jul-2020

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NASA's Mars Rover Spent the Weekend Shooting a Weird-Looking Rock With a Laser - Futurism Set phasers to "study." More...

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express 21-Jul-2020

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express More...

National Moon Day July 2020: History, Significance of The Day And Why it is Celebrated in US - India.com 21-Jul-2020

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National Moon Day July 2020: History, Significance of The Day And Why it is Celebrated in US - India.com As Neil Armstrong said, That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. More...

Baby witches have tried to hex the moon, witch TikTok isn't happy - Dazed 21-Jul-2020

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Baby witches have tried to hex the moon, witch TikTok isn't happy - Dazed Don’t attempt this at home More...

China's Tianwen-1 Mars Mission Rocket Placed On Launch Pad - Mashable India 21-Jul-2020

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China's Tianwen-1 Mars Mission Rocket Placed On Launch Pad - Mashable India With the launch window for Tianwen-1 Mars mission approaching, China has moved the Long March-5 heavy-lift launch system in place on the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the Hainan Province. More...

Meet the sturddlefish, a fish hybrid accidentally created by scientists - CNET 21-Jul-2020

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Meet the sturddlefish, a fish hybrid accidentally created by scientists - CNET This new fish is a hybrid offspring of the American paddlefish and Russian sturgeon, both critically endangered. More...

Likely active volcanoes found on Venus, defying theory of dormant planet - The Guardian 21-Jul-2020

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Likely active volcanoes found on Venus, defying theory of dormant planet - The Guardian Researchers identify 37 ring-like structures known as coronae that are believed to be living volcanoes More...

UAE's Hope Mars mission was launched on 20 July: Objectives, instruments, what to expect after the launch - Firstpost 21-Jul-2020

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UAE's Hope Mars mission was launched on 20 July: Objectives, instruments, what to expect after the launch - Firstpost One of Hope's unofficial objectives is to aide the science community in studying how Mars evolved into the Red desert we know. More...

Ultra-black deep-sea fish have skin that can absorb 99.9 per cent of light - BBC Focus Magazine 21-Jul-2020

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Ultra-black deep-sea fish have skin that can absorb 99.9 per cent of light - BBC Focus Magazine This intense black colour improves their chances of survival. More...

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express 21-Jul-2020

Younger by 85 million years! Research reveals surprising insights about Moon’s actual age, formation and core - The Financial Express More...

Tech Talk - Comet NEOWISE discovered by telescope made in Utah - FOX 13 News Utah 21-Jul-2020

Tech Talk - Comet NEOWISE discovered by telescope made in Utah - FOX 13 News Utah More...

UAE launches Hope probe in Arab world's first mission to Mars - Aljazeera.com 21-Jul-2020

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UAE launches Hope probe in Arab world's first mission to Mars - Aljazeera.com The rocket blasted off successfully from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center for a seven-month journey to the red planet. More...

SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with US astronauts returns on 2 August after historic ISS docking - Firstpost 21-Jul-2020

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SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with US astronauts returns on 2 August after historic ISS docking - Firstpost The first crewed flight of the Dragon-2 capsule in May this year carried two astronauts to the ISS on a two-month mission. More...

A new pathway for the stimulation of nerve cells within the body - Tech Explorist 21-Jul-2020

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A new pathway for the stimulation of nerve cells within the body - Tech Explorist The new system would be completely contact-free after an initial injection of particles, and could be reactivated at will through an externally applied magnetic field. More...

Tianwen-1, China's Mars mission | AFP Animé - AFP News Agency 21-Jul-2020

Tianwen-1, China's Mars mission | AFP Animé - AFP News Agency More...

Bacteria that eats metal, processes carbon accidentally discovered on dirty lab equipment - Firstpost 21-Jul-2020

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Bacteria that eats metal, processes carbon accidentally discovered on dirty lab equipment - Firstpost Such microbes were predicted to exist over a century ago, but none had been found or described until now. More...

TikTok Witches Are Claiming to Have Cast a Hex on the Moon - Newsweek 21-Jul-2020

TikTok Witches Are Claiming to Have Cast a Hex on the Moon - Newsweek More...

How to photograph Comet Neowise this week (it's not yet too late) - Digital Camera World 21-Jul-2020

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How to photograph Comet Neowise this week (it's not yet too late) - Digital Camera World Don't miss the opportunity to see this new comet in the night skies... it will be 6,800 years before it appears again! More...

A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates - Phys.org 21-Jul-2020

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A new idea on how Earth's outer shell first broke into tectonic plates - Phys.org The activity of the solid Earth—for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc.—is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that Earth's outer shell (Earth's "lithosphere") is subdivided i… More...

Closer Than Ever: Solar Orbiter’s First Views of the Sun [Video] - SciTechDaily 21-Jul-2020

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Closer Than Ever: Solar Orbiter’s First Views of the Sun [Video] - SciTechDaily The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter are already exceeding expectations and revealing interesting new phenomena on the Sun. This animation combines a series of views captured with several remote-sensing instruments on Solar Orbiter between 30 May and 21 … More...

Apollo 11's 51st Anniversary: Lesser Known Facts about Mankind's First Step on Moon - News18 21-Jul-2020

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Apollo 11's 51st Anniversary: Lesser Known Facts about Mankind's First Step on Moon - News18 The event was of paramount importance and went on to idolize Neil Armstrong, who was the commander of the mission, and his great saying: 'That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. More...

Hubble Makes a Discovery of Ghostly Arms - SciTechDaily 21-Jul-2020

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Hubble Makes a Discovery of Ghostly Arms - SciTechDaily A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out from the galaxy’s center. In this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the stunning silvery-blue spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 4848 are… More...

Scientists create a bizarre new species of fish called a sturddlefish - Daily Mail 21-Jul-2020

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Scientists create a bizarre new species of fish called a sturddlefish - Daily Mail A team from the Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hungary, were trying to coax eggs from the endangered sturgeon into reproducing asexually. More...

Massive Asteroids Approaching Earth in 2020: Gigantic 800m Rock to Fly By in November - News18 21-Jul-2020

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Massive Asteroids Approaching Earth in 2020: Gigantic 800m Rock to Fly By in November - News18 The six asteroids mentioned in the list are almost 200m in diameter, and are classified as potentially hazardous ones as per data from NASA's Centre for Near Earth Objects Studies (CNEOS) project. More...

What can I see in the night sky? Saturn will be at its brightest in 2020 tonight - Somerset Live 21-Jul-2020

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What can I see in the night sky? Saturn will be at its brightest in 2020 tonight - Somerset Live People across the UK will be able to see the ringed planet in tonight's 'opposition' after Jupiter was visible last week More...

Enormous Volcanoes on Venus May Still Be Active - Newsweek 21-Jul-2020

Enormous Volcanoes on Venus May Still Be Active - Newsweek More...

The best way to watch comet NEOWISE, wherever you are - Deccan Herald 21-Jul-2020

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The best way to watch comet NEOWISE, wherever you are - Deccan Herald Comet NEOWISE has been entertaining space enthusiasts across the Northern Hemisphere. Although its official name is C/2020 F3, the comet has been dubbed NEOWISE after the Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope that fir… More...

Formation of quadruple helix DNA tracked in live human cells for the first time - Medical Xpress 21-Jul-2020

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Formation of quadruple helix DNA tracked in live human cells for the first time - Medical Xpress DNA usually forms the classic double helix shape discovered in 1953—two strands wound around each other. Several other structures have been formed in test tubes, but this does not necessarily mean they form within living cells. More...

Neanderthals of the Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate - Phys.org 21-Jul-2020

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Neanderthals of the Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate - Phys.org Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not happen to the several Neanderthal groups that lived in the western Mediterranean 42,000 years ago. A research group of the University of Bologna came to this c… More...

Shells and grapefruits inspire first manufactured non-cuttable material - Phys.org 21-Jul-2020

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Shells and grapefruits inspire first manufactured non-cuttable material - Phys.org Engineers have taken their inspiration from shells and grapefruits to create what they say is the first manufactured non-cuttable material. More...

Extreme, Growing Weak Point in Earth's Magnetic Field May Be 11 Million Years Old - Newsweek 21-Jul-2020

Extreme, Growing Weak Point in Earth's Magnetic Field May Be 11 Million Years Old - Newsweek More...

How to watch SpaceX launch a South Korean military satellite today - CNET 21-Jul-2020

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How to watch SpaceX launch a South Korean military satellite today - CNET South Korea's Anasis-II military satellite launched atop a Falcon 9. More...

Scientists Just Revealed The Largest-Ever 3D Map of The Universe, And It's Glorious - ScienceAlert 21-Jul-2020

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Scientists Just Revealed The Largest-Ever 3D Map of The Universe, And It's Glorious - ScienceAlert Astrophysicists on Monday published the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, the result of an analysis of more than 4 million galaxies and ultra-bright, energy-packed quasars. More...

Explained: Series of missions to Mars – why, when - The Indian Express 21-Jul-2020

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Explained: Series of missions to Mars – why, when - The Indian Express UAE's hope is on its way. China's Tianwen-1 and NASA's Perseverance will follow soon. What tasks will each of them perform on and around the Red Planet? More...

SpaceX pulls off its first double fairing catch after a Falcon 9 launch - Engadget 21-Jul-2020

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SpaceX pulls off its first double fairing catch after a Falcon 9 launch - Engadget Part of the SpaceX mission has been to create reusable rockets that make spaceflight cheaper, and it has become routine to see the company’s booster rockets return safely to Earth. More...