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INNOVATION: Scientists find a way to extract and store CO2 from vehicle exhaust - ETEnergyworld.com 27-Jul-2020

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INNOVATION: Scientists find a way to extract and store CO2 from vehicle exhaust - ETEnergyworld.com Researchers at EPFL, Switzerland have now come up with a novel solution to this problem: capturing CO2 directly in the trucks' exhaust system and liquefying it in a box on the vehicle's roof More...

UAE Launches First Space Mission, ‘Hope,’ to Mars from Japan - The Quint 27-Jul-2020

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UAE Launches First Space Mission, ‘Hope,’ to Mars from Japan - The Quint The United Arab Emirates’ historic first mission to Mars is under way, after a successful lift-off in Japan. The Hope probe launched on an H2-A rocket from Tanegashima spaceport, and is now on a 500-million-km journey. More...

Scientists reveal first-ever photo of a solar system like ours - techtoday19 27-Jul-2020

Scientists reveal first-ever photo of a solar system like ours - techtoday19 Potentially habitable super-Earth discovered Potentially habitable super-Earth discovered 01:48 Scientists have captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own. The new image is a family portrait of sorts, showing two giant ex… More...

See Comet NEOWISE on-line tonight in a Slooh webcast - Aviation Analysis Wing 27-Jul-2020

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See Comet NEOWISE on-line tonight in a Slooh webcast - Aviation Analysis Wing Comet NEOWISE has captivated stargazers in current months and if you have not viewed it nevertheless, you're in luck. The astronomy studying web page More...

British YouTubers create first-ever 4K video of Mars using pictures captured by 3 NASA rovers - Moneycontrol.com 27-Jul-2020

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British YouTubers create first-ever 4K video of Mars using pictures captured by 3 NASA rovers - Moneycontrol.com One can get panoramic views of the Red Planet in the video, along with deserts, massive dunes, cracked ground, jagged rocks, etc More...

Scientists say Venus may have enough active volcanoes to form its own 'ring of fire' - Firstpost 27-Jul-2020

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Scientists say Venus may have enough active volcanoes to form its own 'ring of fire' - Firstpost By proving that Venus is geographically active, scientists are looking forward to understanding why Earth and Venus evolved so differently despite being so similar in composition and size More...

Where on Earth Did Life Originate? - The Wire 27-Jul-2020

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Where on Earth Did Life Originate? - The Wire Researchers have created amino acids and primitive membranes by simulating conditions found at scalding vents on the ocean floor. More...

Are You Sensitive to Pain? Mutated Neanderthal Gene in Your DNA Could be Responsible - International Business Times, Singapore Edition 27-Jul-2020

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Are You Sensitive to Pain? Mutated Neanderthal Gene in Your DNA Could be Responsible - International Business Times, Singapore Edition The new study has concluded that some present-day humans carry a Neanderthal variant of the mutated gene More...

Citizen science at coronary heart of recent examine displaying COVID-19 seismic noise discount - The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette 27-Jul-2020

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Citizen science at coronary heart of recent examine displaying COVID-19 seismic noise discount - The Shepherd of the Hills Gazette Raspberry Shake IMAGE: Locations of the 268 global seismic stations used in the study. Lockdown effects are observed (red) at 185 of 268 stations. Symbol More...

US planning to build nuclear power plants on Moon, Mars; seeks ideas - Jagran English 27-Jul-2020

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US planning to build nuclear power plants on Moon, Mars; seeks ideas - Jagran English Officials say the operation of a nuclear reactor on the moon would be the first step in creating a modified edition to operate under the various conditions found on Mars More...

Human Immune System May Not be Ready to Resist Attacks from Space Germs Yet - News18 27-Jul-2020

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Human Immune System May Not be Ready to Resist Attacks from Space Germs Yet - News18 A study found that human immune system’s efficiency to fight germs reduces when it comes in contact with ‘alien’ peptides, as compared to the ones found on Earth. More...

How SpaceX, social media and the 'worm' helped NASA become cool again - CNBC 27-Jul-2020

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How SpaceX, social media and the 'worm' helped NASA become cool again - CNBC The future of NASA and American space explorationwas recently up in the air. Now, the space agency and its brand are as hot as ever. How did NASA become cool again? More...

Remembering Rosalind Franklin, the ‘unsung heroine of DNA’, on her 100th birthday - The Financial Express 27-Jul-2020

Remembering Rosalind Franklin, the ‘unsung heroine of DNA’, on her 100th birthday - The Financial Express More...

Hope Probe to be first to provide complete picture of Martian atmosphere - SatelliteProME.com 27-Jul-2020

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Hope Probe to be first to provide complete picture of Martian atmosphere - SatelliteProME.com The aim of the mission is to understand the climate dynamics and the global weather map by characterising the lower atmosphere of Mars. More...

Breathtaking Graphic Reveals The Colossal Magnetic Field of a Distant Spiral Galaxy - haveeruonline 27-Jul-2020

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Breathtaking Graphic Reveals The Colossal Magnetic Field of a Distant Spiral Galaxy - haveeruonline Spiral galaxies seem great and tidy, with most of their stars and gasoline confined to a disc neatly arranged in swirling spiral arms. But there is More...

Earth's magnetic field can change 10 times faster than thought - The Rahnuma Daily 27-Jul-2020

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Earth's magnetic field can change 10 times faster than thought - The Rahnuma Daily London, July 6 (IANS) Scientists using simulations in the lab have revealed that changes in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field may take place 10 times faster than previously thought. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, gives ne… More...

Scientists Engineer 3D-Printed Bricks That Aid in Bone and Soft Tissue Repair - techtoday19 27-Jul-2020

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Scientists Engineer 3D-Printed Bricks That Aid in Bone and Soft Tissue Repair - techtoday19 The Lego-inspired cubes could one day lead to lab-made organs for human transplant.July 25, 2020Scientists have engineered tiny, 3D-printed bricks that can heal broken bones and damaged soft tissue. The novel invention could one day lead to lab-made organs fo… More...

Rock from Mars heads home after 600,000 years on Earth - The Guardian 27-Jul-2020

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Rock from Mars heads home after 600,000 years on Earth - The Guardian Tiny piece of meteorite from London’s Natural History Museum will be used by rover exploring red planet More...

Research suggests Earth was formed much faster than previously thought - Republic World - Republic World 27-Jul-2020

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Research suggests Earth was formed much faster than previously thought - Republic World - Republic World Research on new insights on both planetary formation and the likelihood of water and life elsewhere n the universe and found that Earth was formed much faster. More...

Tech China weekly highlights - Xinhua | English.news.cn - Xinhua 27-Jul-2020

Tech China weekly highlights - Xinhua | English.news.cn - Xinhua More...

NASA announces plans to study the cosmos with a high-flying balloon - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post 27-Jul-2020

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NASA announces plans to study the cosmos with a high-flying balloon - The Jakarta Post - Jakarta Post NASA announced a new method which it will be using to better study newly-formed stars: a stratospheric balloon floating 24.6 miles above the Earth's surface. More...

Mohammed bin Rashid reviews final pre-flight preparations of Mars Hope Probe - SatelliteProME.com 27-Jul-2020

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Mohammed bin Rashid reviews final pre-flight preparations of Mars Hope Probe - SatelliteProME.com The launch has been rescheduled to take place on July 20 at 01:58:14 am UAE Time from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center after facing several delays due to bad weather conditions. More...

Solar Orbiter probe snaps closest pictures of Sun - The Rahnuma Daily 27-Jul-2020

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Solar Orbiter probe snaps closest pictures of Sun - The Rahnuma Daily Washington, July 16 (IANS) The first images snapped by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, an international collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, are now available for the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun. Lau… More...

China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite - Space Daily 27-Jul-2020

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China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite - Space Daily Beijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2020 - China launched an Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Saturday, according to authorities in charge of the program. More...

NASAs Roman Space Telescope ground system clears major review - Zee News 27-Jul-2020

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NASAs Roman Space Telescope ground system clears major review - Zee News NASA s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope`s ground system, which will make data from the spacecraft available to scientists and the public, has just successfully completed its preliminary design review. More...

Circle of relatives of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for A long time – Now an Solution to the Puzzling Chimera - techtoday19 27-Jul-2020

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Circle of relatives of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for A long time – Now an Solution to the Puzzling Chimera - techtoday19 ] Samples from a unprecedented meteorite circle of relatives, together with the only proven right here, divulge that their mother or father planetesimal, shaped within the earliest phases of the sun machine, used to be a fancy, layered object, with a molten c… More...

Looking Back on The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement - techtoday19 27-Jul-2020

Looking Back on The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement - techtoday19 This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first-ever photo of quantum entanglement - a phenomenon so strange, physicist Albert Einstein famously described it as 'spooky action at a distance'. It might… More...

How to Watch the Meteor Shower Happening Now Through August 23 - Lifehacker 27-Jul-2020

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How to Watch the Meteor Shower Happening Now Through August 23 - Lifehacker Instructions from NASA for optimal viewing. More...

Radishes Can Likely Grow in Lunar Regolith - Universe Today 27-Jul-2020

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Radishes Can Likely Grow in Lunar Regolith - Universe Today For many of us, gardening has been a therapeutic distraction during this time of pandemic quarantine. But some researchers from the Jet Propulsion Lab have been gardening at home with a specific goal in mind: growing food on the Moon. “We’re trying to show as… More...

1st direct image of 2 giant exoplanets orbiting a sunlike star | Space - haveeruonline 27-Jul-2020

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1st direct image of 2 giant exoplanets orbiting a sunlike star | Space - haveeruonline EarthSky’s yearly crowd-funding campaign is in progress. In 2020, we are donating 8.5% of all incoming revenues to No Kids Hungry. Click to learn more and More...

He always dreamed of stepping foot on the moon. He made it there after his death - CNN 27-Jul-2020

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He always dreamed of stepping foot on the moon. He made it there after his death - CNN Today, we know Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins as the first men to go to the moon, 51 years ago. But, if not for a turn of events, history may have also known another name: Eugene Shoemaker. More...

UAE's Mars Mission: Al Amal for Muslims - Kashmir Images 27-Jul-2020

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UAE's Mars Mission: Al Amal for Muslims - Kashmir Images BY: Asad Mirza The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by any Arab nation, lifted off successfully on an H-IIA rocket from More...

The center of our solar system is not the Sun, new animation shows - News Landed 27-Jul-2020

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The center of our solar system is not the Sun, new animation shows - News Landed Kids have been taught since pre-school that the Sun is the center of our solar system. However, this is not exactly true. More...

Two Surat girls discover asteroid; Nasa confirms - Times of India 27-Jul-2020

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Two Surat girls discover asteroid; Nasa confirms - Times of India While comet NEOWISE is keeping earthlings busy with its rare appearance, two Surat Class X girls made their own trailblazing once-in-a-lifetime discov More...

Self-replicating Chernobyl mold could protect the ISS from space radiation - CNET 27-Jul-2020

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Self-replicating Chernobyl mold could protect the ISS from space radiation - CNET Radiation shields made from living organisms could help us head deeper into the cosmos. More...

NASA astronomers spot Chinas Mars bound Tianwen-1 while mapping large patches of sky - Republic World - Republic World 27-Jul-2020

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NASA astronomers spot Chinas Mars bound Tianwen-1 while mapping large patches of sky - Republic World - Republic World A NASA observatory, dedicated to the research of hazardous asteroids in the space, captured China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission vehicle on camera last week. More...

NASA's JUNO Captures First Pictures Of Huge Moon Ganymede - Sakshi English 27-Jul-2020

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NASA's JUNO Captures First Pictures Of Huge Moon Ganymede - Sakshi English NASA's Juno Jupiter probe captured some of the rare views of the largest moon in the solar system. During the...... More...

COVID has Caused the Longest and Deepest Reduction in Human Noise on Record - VICE 27-Jul-2020

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COVID has Caused the Longest and Deepest Reduction in Human Noise on Record - VICE With most of the world in lockdown, the "seismic noise" produced by humans has reduced by up to 50 percent. More...

Scientists Launch Major 3D Map of the Universe - Prudent Press Agency 27-Jul-2020

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Scientists Launch Major 3D Map of the Universe - Prudent Press Agency Researchers have produced the major a few-dimensional, or 3D map of the universe at any time created. The map is the end result of a challenge released More...