Seismic noise in Earth's crust 'dramatically' reduced globally due to coronavirus lockdown, finds study - Jagran English The seismic noise which is caused by the vibrations in the Earth s crust which travel like waves triggered by the earthquake volcanoes and also by human activities like travel and industrial activities using heavy machinery More...

Noise Pollution Dropped By 50% Across Earth Due To COVID-19 Pandemic - India Times As several human activities came to a standstill during the COVID-19 lockdown in numerous nations, the Earth seemed to enjoy a period of peace and quiet like never before.  ReutersScientists have now found proof of noise levels reducing… More...

New Study Is Rewriting The Incredibly Timeline of How Earth Was Born - haveeruonline In the very early times of the Photo voltaic Method, child Earth could have taken a a great deal shorter time to sort than we formerly imagined.According More...

Tech China weekly highlights - techtoday19 BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's major technology news from the past week: MARS PROBE China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, designed to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, taking the first step in i… More...

Learning from nature: a new flapping drone can take off, hover and swoop like a bird - The Conversation AU Inspired by the aerobatic manoeuvres of the swift, a new "flapping wing" aircraft can hover, glide and dive much better than quadcopter-style drones. More...

What to know about China, UAE and US missions to Mars this summer - techtoday19 iStock/ Bubbers13 By: CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Like something out of a science fiction film, three nations on Earth are heading to Mars this month — commencing a new, deep space race to explore the Red Planet. Earlier this month, the United … More...

NASA plans to send telescope into the stratosphere on a stadium-sized balloon to study the cosmos - Firstpost The balloon stationed at a 40-km altitude will study far-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. More...

New technique to capture CO2 could reduce power plant greenhouse gases - India Education Diary A big advance in carbon capture technology could provide an efficient and inexpensive way for natural gas power plants to remove carbon dioxide from their flue emissions, a necessary step in reduci… More...

Astronauts Come Back to Earth on August 2nd, Completing the Full Crew Dragon Test - Universe Today On Sunday, August 2nd, astronauts Bog and Doug will return from the ISS, thus completing NASA's first crewed mission from US soil in almost a decade. More...

The Largest-Ever Map Of The Universe Bends The Mind - Mashable India This map looks back in time. Astronomers working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey — a decades-long project to map the universe — recently released a new 3D map of the cosmos. It encompasses 11 billion years (out of 13.8 billion) of the universe's history. Mo… More...

Extreme fungus from Chernobyl under study for use in protective shields against space radiation - Firstpost Scientists have theorised that these organisms could serve as radiation shields for future astronauts on long-distance missions. More...

Hubble Just Took an Astonishingly Comprehensive Picture of Saturn - haveeruonline The Hubble area telescope has put in the past 30 several years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) higher than Earth. The ageing satellite has experienced a pair More...

NASA spots China's Tianwen-1 flying towards Red Planet - Deccan Herald A streak of light across the night sky was identified by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) as China’s Tianwen-1 on its way to Mars, NASA’s asteroid watch twitter account posted. More...

Magnetic nanoparticles change their magnetic structure in a magnetic field - Nanowerk When ultrafine magnetic particles are exposed to an external magnetic field, their magnetic core grows in a previously unexpected way. More...

Scientists Finally Discover the Center of Our Solar System and Sun Revolves around It - News18 A planetary scientist at JAXA has made an animation video to explain how the sun, along with other planets and terrestrial objects, orbit around the solar system center of mass. More...

Team Combines Cell Imaging and Mathematical Modeling To Investigate Cancer Progression - techtoday19 Cell division is a fundamental process that organisms need to reproduce, grow, and make repairs. But when an error disrupts this complex biological process, cellular abnormalities can lead to diseases, such as cancer, where cells are enabled to grow and divid… More...

Venus may have enough volcanic activities to form its own Ring of fire, reveals study - Republic World - Republic World In a recent study, researchers have found signs of activity that may be much more recent than ancient under the thick and cloudy atmosphere of Venus Planet. More...

Alien Life Enthusiast Has Spotted a UFO Ten Times the Size of Earth - News18 The pictures used by him show a square-shaped dark object positioned in front of the sun. He stated that the alien cube could be a special particle from the sun. More...

How the zebrafish got its stripes - EurekAlert Animal patterns are a source of endless fascination, and now researchers at the University Bath have worked out how zebrafish develop their stripes. More...

COVID-19 lockdown makes Earth quieter! Reduction in seismic noise globally - The Financial Express More...

Photo of the day: star fireworks in the vastness of the universe - Phone Mantra The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the most detailed image (see below) of an open star cluster, designated NGC 2203. More...

New Estimate Presents Important Milestone for Global Carbon Cycle Studies - AZoCleantech Regional carbon budgets should be highly accurate to notify land-based mitigation policy and to track the progress in the mitigation path. More...

Know sweat: scientists solve mystery behind body odour - techtoday19 Scientists have unravelled the mysterious mechanism behind the armpit’s ability to produce the pungent smell of body odour. Researchers at the University of York traced the source of underarm odour to a particular enzyme in a certain microbe that lives in the… More...

Neowise July 27 Location: Where will the comet be tonight and how to spot it? - Republic World - Republic World Icy Comet NEOWISE is on its outbound journey from our solar system & it will soon disappear into deep space. Here is how you can spot the comet tonight. More...

NASA will ship a balloon the dimensions of a soccer field to study the stars - haveeruonline The area agency's ASTHROS mission will depart from Antarctica in December 2023 and shell out a few weeks in the stratosphere, the area of the environment More...

Man killed 83-year-old dog walker after attacking couple - STV News David Johnstone's spree of violence left Frank Kinnis dead and two other victims needing hospital treatment. More...

NASA Astronauts Set To Return Aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Capsule On August 2 - Mashable India This May, SpaceX became the first private company to launch NASA astronauts to space with the Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 mission. Now, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are slated to return down to Earth on August 2nd after two months astronauts aboard the ISS. More...

Return of the zombie cicadas: Team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers - Phys.org Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects, resulting in effective disease transmission, according to West Virginia University-led research. More...

Beyond Hubble’s Constant –“A New Age of the Universe” - The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel “Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes.There we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial,” wrote Edwin Hubble in 1916, inventor of the famous “constant” that describes h… More...

School Girls Discover Earth-Bound Asteroid - NDTV Two teenage girls have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said on Monday. More...

Scientists create AI tool to identify individual birds - Gadgets Now Researchers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to train computers to recognise individual birds, a task that humans are unable to do. We show that computers can consistently recognise dozens of individual birds, even though we can… More...

Rising temps put desert shrubs in high-efficiency mode - Phys.org Death Valley doesn't seem like the most ideal place to ride out rising temperatures amid a changing climate. But for the desert plants that live there, it's home—and they face the choice to adapt or die. More...

SpaceX’s Starlink satellites ruin another awesome photo - BGR A horde of SpaceX Starlink satellites obscured the view of the comet nicknamed NEOWISE, ruining an otherwise awesome photo of the comet. SpaceX has launched hundreds of the satellites already, but plans to have tens of thousands of them in orbit before long. … More...

Scientists identify the key enzyme behind body odour - ZEE5 News Washington D.C. [USA], July 27 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a unique enzyme responsible for the pungent characteristic smell we call body odour or BO. More...

Scientists look inside central engine of solar flare for first time - ZEE5 News Massachusetts [USA], July 27 (ANI): Scientists from the Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the New Jersey Institute of Technology on Monday announced the first successful measurement and characterisation of the 'central engine' of a large so… More...

Model links patterns in sediment to rain, uplift and sea level change - techtoday19 The source-to-sink model illustrating elevation (left) and erosion/deposition (right). Credit: Jinyu Zhang/ The University of Texas at Austin. Forces that shape the Earth's surface are recorded in a number of natural records, from tree rings to cave formation… More...

Engineers Create Strange Four-Winged Flapping Drones Inspired by Bird Wings - ScienceAlert We have developed four-winged bird-like robots, called ornithopters, that can take off and fly with the agility of swifts, hummingbirds and insects. We did this by reverse engineering the aerodynamics and biomechanics of these creatures. More...

Pristine environments offer a window to our cloudy past - techtoday19 A new study uses satellite data over the Southern Hemisphere to understand global cloud composition during the industrial revolution. This research tackles one of the largest uncertainties in today's climate models -- the long-term effect of tiny atmospheric … More...

Russia to lift orbit of int'l space station - Macau Business Russia plans to lift the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to create "ballistic conditions" for the arrival of a manned spacecraft More...

Carbon Emissions Are Chilling The Atmosphere 90 Km Above Antarctica - ScienceAlert While greenhouse gases are warming Earth's surface, they're also causing rapid cooling far above us, at the edge of space. More...

New NASA Research Projects Probe COVID-19 Impacts - techtoday19 New NASA Research Projects Probe COVID-19 Impacts Press Release From: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Posted: Monday, July 27, 2020 The new projects look at food- and water-supply stability and how changes in human activity are affecting the environment.The COVID-1… More...

Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peaks On July 29 - Sakshi English The spectacular Delta Aquarids, an annual meteor shower occurrence is considered to be one of the longest events usually observed...... More...

Mapping crystal shapes could fast-track 2D materials: Experts call for global effort to clear hurdles to mass production - techtoday19 Materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide. In a perspective article published online in Mater… More...

Nasa's next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet - Times of India US News: CAPE CANAVERAL: With eight successful Mars landings, Nasa is upping the ante with its newest rover. More...