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Asthma drugs may enhance sprint and strength performance in athletes: Study - Medical Dialogues 06-Aug-2020

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Asthma drugs may enhance sprint and strength performance in athletes: Study - Medical Dialogues A type of asthma drug, known as Beta2-agonists, can boost sprint and strength performance in... More...

Explained: What happens when a giant black hole does not intervene in life of a galaxy cluster - Zee News 06-Aug-2020

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Explained: What happens when a giant black hole does not intervene in life of a galaxy cluster - Zee News A new study conducted by a team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes has revealed what can happen when a giant black hole fails to intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. More...

100 Million-Year-Old Seabed Microbes Revived - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

100 Million-Year-Old Seabed Microbes Revived - techtoday19 For decades, scientists have gathered ancient sediment samples from below the seafloor to better understand past climates, plate tectonics and the deep marine ecosystem. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers reveal that given the righ… More...

15 Spectacular Photos Of August's Full 'Sturgeon Moon' From Around The World - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

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15 Spectacular Photos Of August's Full 'Sturgeon Moon' From Around The World - techtoday19 A full moon shines over the dome of the Conception Convent in central Moscow. Marina Lystseva/TASS ... (Photo by Marina LystsevaTASS via Getty Images) Marina Lystseva/TASS Did you see the full Moon this week? In a clear sky it looked spectacular as it rose ab… More...

Katie Mack: 'Knowing how the universe will end is freeing' – BBC News – Syria News - Syria News 06-Aug-2020

Katie Mack: 'Knowing how the universe will end is freeing' – BBC News – Syria News - Syria News Image copyrightNASA Goddard Terms like "heat death", "big rip" and "vacuum decay" don't sound all that inviting. And they aren't. They describe a few of the theories scientists have about how our univ More...

See the 'space butterfly' astronomers captured from thousands of light years away – KSL.com - Syria News 06-Aug-2020

See the 'space butterfly' astronomers captured from thousands of light years away – KSL.com - Syria News ATLANTA (CNN) Thousands of light years away, there's a "space butterfly" colored with brilliant blues and clouds of purple and red. It's an image we've never seen in this much detail before. So named More...

PredaSAR Chooses SpaceX to Launch its First Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite - Space Ref 06-Aug-2020

PredaSAR Chooses SpaceX to Launch its First Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite - Space Ref PredaSAR Chooses SpaceX to Launch its First Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite - SpaceRef More...

The Company of Biologists commits to the Transformative Journal approach - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

The Company of Biologists commits to the Transformative Journal approach - techtoday19 The Company of Biologists has offered Open Access publishing options since 2004 and two of its five journals are already fully Open Access. The Transformative Journal strategy signals more clearly the journals' commitment to move towards full Open Access, whi… More...

Oxford scientists at CERN help take one step closer to understanding the Higgs boson - India Education Diary 06-Aug-2020

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Oxford scientists at CERN help take one step closer to understanding the Higgs boson - India Education Diary The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have today announced their observation of a phenomenon that has never been seen before, where the Higgs boson decays into two ele… More...

New SpaceX Starship fails to fire, but the Mars rocket has more chances - CNET 06-Aug-2020

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New SpaceX Starship fails to fire, but the Mars rocket has more chances - CNET The headless rocket known as SN5 didn't light up Monday or Tuesday morning, but Elon Musk and SpaceX will give it a go again soon. More...

Plant size and habitat traits influence cycad susceptibility to invasive species - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

Plant size and habitat traits influence cycad susceptibility to invasive species - techtoday19 A Cycas micronesica tree in Guam, right, shows the extent of damage done by invasive insect herbivores, a scale called Aulacaspis yasumatsui, as compared to a healthy Cycas micronesica tree, left, found in Yap. In a 15-year study, published in the May 2020 is… More...

Science News Roundup: NASA astronauts cap historic aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon; 'Gnarly' tumor shows dinosaurs got cancer and more - Devdiscourse 06-Aug-2020

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Science News Roundup: NASA astronauts cap historic aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon; 'Gnarly' tumor shows dinosaurs got cancer and more - Devdiscourse Behnken and Hurley, tallying 64 days in space, undocked from the station on Saturday and returned home to land their capsule in calm waters off Florida's Pensacola coast on schedule at 2:48 p.m. ET following a 21-hour overnight journey aboard Crew Dragon "End… More...

Biomedical engineers create artificial organelles to control biological function in cells - News-Medical.net 06-Aug-2020

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Biomedical engineers create artificial organelles to control biological function in cells - News-Medical.net Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a method for controlling the phase separation of an emerging class of proteins to create artificial membrane-less organelles within human cells. More...

Sun may not be as quiet as scientists thought during the passive, calm period of its cycle - Firstpost 06-Aug-2020

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Sun may not be as quiet as scientists thought during the passive, calm period of its cycle - Firstpost Solar maps showed active areas which can be observed on the maps as hotter areas than the rest of the solar surface. More...

Tracking humanity’s latest toxins in stranded whales and dolphins - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

Tracking humanity’s latest toxins in stranded whales and dolphins - techtoday19 As humanity develops new types of plastics and chemicals, researchers are constantly trying to keep up with understanding how these contaminants affect the environment and wildlife. A new study gives a first look at the presence and potential effects of these… More...

NASA releases image of star system explosion 'equivalent to 10 million trillion H bombs' - techtoday19 06-Aug-2020

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NASA releases image of star system explosion 'equivalent to 10 million trillion H bombs' - techtoday19 The US space agency NASA has been aware of infrequent outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco. Astronomers have estimated V745 Sco is located approximately 25,000 light-years from our planet. V745 Sco is a binary star system made up of a white dwarf an… More...

Surface area of Mars displays scars of glaciers just like Canada's Superior Arctic: study - Aviation Analysis Wing 06-Aug-2020

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Surface area of Mars displays scars of glaciers just like Canada's Superior Arctic: study - Aviation Analysis Wing &#13 &#13 Mark Jellinek of the University of British Columbia appears to be like to the Devon ice cap in a handout picture, standing on rocks that are More...

A young sub-Neptune-sized planet offers clues on planet formation and evolution - Tech Explorist 06-Aug-2020

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A young sub-Neptune-sized planet offers clues on planet formation and evolution - Tech Explorist A young sub-Neptune-sized planet called K2-25b has a mass about 1.5 times larger than Neptune. It is dense for its size and age, in contrast to other young short-period sub-Neptune systems. More...

Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS attributes LHC as a high-electrical power photon collider - Aviation Analysis Wing 06-Aug-2020

Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS attributes LHC as a high-electrical power photon collider - Aviation Analysis Wing For the duration of the Intercontinental Conference on Large-Electrical power Physics (ICHEP 2020), the ATLAS collaboration offered the first observation More...

Annoyed by Microwave Heating Up the Bowl Along With Your Food? Science May Have a Solution - News18 06-Aug-2020

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Annoyed by Microwave Heating Up the Bowl Along With Your Food? Science May Have a Solution - News18 To make such an object, the researchers used thin silver plating on the rim of the glass. More...

Charles Darwin and the Lasting Legacy of Eugenics - The Wire Science 06-Aug-2020

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Charles Darwin and the Lasting Legacy of Eugenics - The Wire Science In 1872, with the publication of “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” Charles Darwin went rogue. More...

Blanket of rock debris offers glaciers more protection from climate change than previously known - Phys.org 06-Aug-2020

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Blanket of rock debris offers glaciers more protection from climate change than previously known - Phys.org A new study which provides a global estimate of rock cover on the Earth's glaciers has revealed that the expanse of rock debris on glaciers, a factor that has been ignored in models of glacier melt and sea level rise, could be significant. More...

While Shifting to Next Activity Cycle, Sun Might Not Be as Quiet as Scientists Thought, Says New Research - News18 06-Aug-2020

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While Shifting to Next Activity Cycle, Sun Might Not Be as Quiet as Scientists Thought, Says New Research - News18 Solar maps showed active areas which can be observed on the maps as hotter areas than the rest of the solar surface. More...

COVID-19: Disposed Personal Protective Equipment Could Be Turned Into Biofuel, Say Indian Scientists | News - Swachh India NDTV 06-Aug-2020

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COVID-19: Disposed Personal Protective Equipment Could Be Turned Into Biofuel, Say Indian Scientists | News - Swachh India NDTV According to a study published in the journal Biofuels, billions of items of disposable Personal Protective Equipment can be converted from its plastic state into biofuels using a high-temperature chemical process More...

Planetary defenses reinforced by new laser array that can spot ‘invisible’ space debris in broad daylight - RT 06-Aug-2020

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Planetary defenses reinforced by new laser array that can spot ‘invisible’ space debris in broad daylight - RT Lasers are our go-to tool to track space debris above the Earth and help companies and nations alike avoid any unwanted contact in orbit. However, these defences have been operating under extreme limitations… until now. More...

City growth favours animals 'more likely to carry disease' - BBC News 06-Aug-2020

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City growth favours animals 'more likely to carry disease' - BBC News Turning wild spaces into farmland or cities creates opportunities for diseases to cross into humans. More...

A dinosaur has been diagnosed with cancer for the first time. Here's how the scientists did it. - Business Insider India 06-Aug-2020

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A dinosaur has been diagnosed with cancer for the first time. Here's how the scientists did it. - Business Insider India Researchers in Canada diagnosed a dinosaur with an aggressive type of bone cancer — the first time a dinosaur has received a confirmed cancer diagnosis. The More...

#AskNASA How Do We Launch Astronauts from the United States to the Space Station? - NASA 06-Aug-2020

#AskNASA How Do We Launch Astronauts from the United States to the Space Station? - NASA More...

Weather conditions satellite and robotic telescope location Perseverance rover en route to Mars - Winged Express 06-Aug-2020

Weather conditions satellite and robotic telescope location Perseverance rover en route to Mars - Winged Express More...

Perseid Meteor Shower promises big show for stargazers - FOX 2 St. Louis 06-Aug-2020

Perseid Meteor Shower promises big show for stargazers - FOX 2 St. Louis More...

Astronauts share more on their history-making splashdown - KHOU 11 06-Aug-2020

Astronauts share more on their history-making splashdown - KHOU 11 More...

‘Mars is looking real’: Elon Musk as SpaceX test rocket makes 1st flight, landing upright - Hindustan Times 06-Aug-2020

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‘Mars is looking real’: Elon Musk as SpaceX test rocket makes 1st flight, landing upright - Hindustan Times SpaceX plans to launch reusable Starships atop still-in-the-works rockets, carrying cargo or crew not only to low-Earth orbit but also the moon and Musk’s most desirable destination, Mars More...