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Range of global warming scenarios is more severe than thought, study shows - Axios 23-Jul-2020

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Range of global warming scenarios is more severe than thought, study shows - Axios Doubling the amount of atmospheric CO2 is expected have dangerous ramifications. More...

New material called 'Proteus' is reportedly the world's first uncuttable material - TechSpot 23-Jul-2020

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New material called 'Proteus' is reportedly the world's first uncuttable material - TechSpot Researchers at Durham University in England and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute claim that Proteus resists cutting by turning the cutting tools against themselves and dulling them. The material is made up of an aluminum matrix (aluminum foam) embedded with cer… More...

WATCH: Supercomputer generates 3D videos that show how Earth may have lost half of its atmosphere to create th - Business Insider India 23-Jul-2020

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WATCH: Supercomputer generates 3D videos that show how Earth may have lost half of its atmosphere to create th - Business Insider India The COSMA supercomputer was used to create 3D simulations of what would happen to a planet’s atmosphere due to giant impacts. Scientists at Durham University More...

NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter mission spots 'campfires' in closest images ever taken of the Sun - Firstpost 23-Jul-2020

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NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter mission spots 'campfires' in closest images ever taken of the Sun - Firstpost Campfires, researchers say, could be tiny versions of solar flares or an entirely new phenomenon that isn't yet understood. More...

Scientists Create New Species of Struddlefish after 'Accidentally' Breeding Two Different Fossil Fish - News18 23-Jul-2020

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Scientists Create New Species of Struddlefish after 'Accidentally' Breeding Two Different Fossil Fish - News18 American paddlefish and Russian sturgeon, both endangered species, were bred together using a technique called gynogenesis. More...

Asteroid Rain: 800mn Years Ago, Earth Was Hit By 50 Trillion Tonnes of Apocalyptic Meteoroids - News18 23-Jul-2020

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Asteroid Rain: 800mn Years Ago, Earth Was Hit By 50 Trillion Tonnes of Apocalyptic Meteoroids - News18 The asteroid shower theory may hold key to understanding the abundant presence of phosphorus in human constituency, as well as on Earth in general. More...

Hope Probe successfully lifts off in historic mission to Mars - SatelliteProME.com 23-Jul-2020

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Hope Probe successfully lifts off in historic mission to Mars - SatelliteProME.com The Hope Probe successfully lifted off at 01:58 am UAE time on July 20, after the countdown for the last 10 seconds was done in Arabic. More...

Sharkcano: Exploring The Relationship Between Underwater Volcanoes And Sharks - Forbes 23-Jul-2020

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Sharkcano: Exploring The Relationship Between Underwater Volcanoes And Sharks - Forbes The sharks were first found inside a volcano caldera by Brennan Phillips five years ago following the eruption of submarine volcano Kavachi. Now, scientists are unraveling this unique relationship between predator and volcano. More...

ANASIS-II: South Korea launches first-ever military satellite - Jagran Josh 23-Jul-2020

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ANASIS-II: South Korea launches first-ever military satellite - Jagran Josh ANASIS-II aims to enhance South Koreas ability to defend itself against nuclear-armed North Korea. More...

Age is just a number: How science may soon delay the aging process - Times Now 23-Jul-2020

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Age is just a number: How science may soon delay the aging process - Times Now Scientists at the University of California, San Diego believe they may have found a way to reprogram cells such that their lifespans are dramatically increased. More...

Mercury making close approach to Earth tonight - here's how to spot it - Wales Online 23-Jul-2020

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Mercury making close approach to Earth tonight - here's how to spot it - Wales Online Tonight will also mark the arrival of the new moon, so Mercury will be even easier to see More...

Improving coastal restoration by temporarily imitating nature - Phys.org 23-Jul-2020

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Improving coastal restoration by temporarily imitating nature - Phys.org Coastal ecosystems are in rapid decline around the world. Restoring them is very expensive and is often unsuccessful. But an international team of researchers discovered a way of increasing restoration success of salt marshes and seagrass meadows, using biode… More...

Scientists Discover Active Volcanoes On Venus - Mashable India 23-Jul-2020

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Scientists Discover Active Volcanoes On Venus - Mashable India Scientists have discovered evidence that suggests Venus has a warm and churning interior, instead of cold interiors as in the case of Mars and Mercury. More...

Astronomy news: Never before seen cosmic structures spotted in distant galaxy - Daily Express 23-Jul-2020

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Astronomy news: Never before seen cosmic structures spotted in distant galaxy - Daily Express COSMIC structures, the likes of which have never been seen before, have been spotted by astronomers in observations which could revolutionise the understanding of the Universe. More...

Radio relic detected in a merging galaxy cluster - Phys.org 23-Jul-2020

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Radio relic detected in a merging galaxy cluster - Phys.org Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), an international team of astronomers has detected a radio relic in a merging galaxy cluster known as SPT-CL 2023-5535. The discovery is reported in a research paper published July 16 on the arXiv… More...

Neowise July 22 Location: Know when and where to find the dazzling comet tonight - Republic World - Republic World 23-Jul-2020

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Neowise July 22 Location: Know when and where to find the dazzling comet tonight - Republic World - Republic World The space-born visitor Comet Neowise is dazzling the skies on Earth this month. Here is where one can spot this fast-moving ball of ice tonight. More...

Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios - BloombergQuint 23-Jul-2020

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Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios - BloombergQuint Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios More...

Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe Fills in History Gaps - techtoday19 23-Jul-2020

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Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe Fills in History Gaps - techtoday19 The project is the result of a combined effort of more than 20 years of mapping the Universe.July 22, 2020Scientists have released the largest three-dimensional map of the Universe ever created that explains the most significant gaps in its history.“We know b… More...

Quantum-tunnelling time is measured using ultracold atoms - physicsworld.com 23-Jul-2020

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Quantum-tunnelling time is measured using ultracold atoms - physicsworld.com Spin rotation provides a stopwatch that measures millisecond journey More...

Sheikh Mohammed shares 1st image of Mars taken by Hope probe - Khaleej Times 23-Jul-2020

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Sheikh Mohammed shares 1st image of Mars taken by Hope probe - Khaleej Times The UAE's Hope probe has captured and relayed the first image of its destination: The Red Planet. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al... More...

Ancient Ice Loss in Antarctica’s Most Stable Region Paints a Bleak Picture of What Could Come - Gizmodo 23-Jul-2020

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Ancient Ice Loss in Antarctica’s Most Stable Region Paints a Bleak Picture of What Could Come - Gizmodo A new paper suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet may not be as stable as we thought. Looking at ancient melting, the study finds evidence that this piece of the Antarctic experienced melting 400,000 years ago when the world was 1.8 to 3.6 degrees Fahren… More...

Astronomers Directly Image Two Giant Exoplanets around Young Sun-Like Star | Astronomy - Sci-News.com 23-Jul-2020

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Astronomers Directly Image Two Giant Exoplanets around Young Sun-Like Star | Astronomy - Sci-News.com Astronomers using the SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a second planetary-mass companion orbiting TYC 8998-760-1, a 16.7-million-year-old solar-type star previously k… More...

Are the Earth’s magnetic North and South poles likely to switch places soon? - Scroll.in 23-Jul-2020

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Are the Earth’s magnetic North and South poles likely to switch places soon? - Scroll.in Two researchers travelled to St Helena, where the magnetic field is unusually weak, to find out. More...

Is it a bird, a plane? Not superman, but a flapping wing drone - Tech Xplore 23-Jul-2020

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Is it a bird, a plane? Not superman, but a flapping wing drone - Tech Xplore A drone prototype that mimics the aerobatic manoeuvres of one of the world's fastest birds, the swift, is being developed by an international team of engineers in the latest example of biologically inspired flight. More...

NASA Is Using a Robot to Search for Leaks Outside the Space Station - Futurism 23-Jul-2020

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NASA Is Using a Robot to Search for Leaks Outside the Space Station - Futurism The same tech could help establish orbital settlements. More...

NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities to Solve a Messy Problem - NASA 23-Jul-2020

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NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities to Solve a Messy Problem - NASA NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities to Solve a Messy Problem More...

NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Operational Commercial Crew Launch - Space Ref 23-Jul-2020

NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Operational Commercial Crew Launch - Space Ref NASA, SpaceX Invite Media to First Operational Commercial Crew Launch - SpaceRef More...

Watch Russia launch a new cargo ship to the International Space Station Thursday - Space.com 23-Jul-2020

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Watch Russia launch a new cargo ship to the International Space Station Thursday - Space.com Liftoff is set for 10:26 a.m. EDT (1426 GMT). More...

Scientists flock to mysterious 'blue hole' off Florida's Gulf Coast - ABC News 23-Jul-2020

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Scientists flock to mysterious 'blue hole' off Florida's Gulf Coast - ABC News More...

'Waterfall' of microbes in Antarctic sea floor leads to discovery of methane leak - ETEnergyworld.com 23-Jul-2020

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'Waterfall' of microbes in Antarctic sea floor leads to discovery of methane leak - ETEnergyworld.com Marine ecologist Andrew Thurber first glimpsed what a colleague described as a "microbial waterfall" during a dive in the icy waters of the Ross Sea in 2012 More...

China to launch Mars probe in space race with US - Times of India 23-Jul-2020

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China to launch Mars probe in space race with US - Times of India China News: WENCHANG: China aims to launch a rover to Mars on Thursday on a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into dee. More...

1st Anniversary of Chandrayaan-2 Launch: All 8 Payloads Performing Well, Says ISRO - India.com 23-Jul-2020

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1st Anniversary of Chandrayaan-2 Launch: All 8 Payloads Performing Well, Says ISRO - India.com The global mapping of the lunar surface and polar coverage are being carried out as per the mission plan, while public release of science data from Chandrayaan-2 for global use will begin in October More...