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NASA On The Outlook To Find The Name Of Its New Mars Rover - http://www.newsgram.com/ 22-Jul-2021

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NASA On The Outlook To Find The Name Of Its New Mars Rover - http://www.newsgram.com/ NASA is on the look out for a partner to conduct a contest among students to name the agency's next rover to the Mars 2020 mission. More...

Explained: How does the moon ‘wobble’ affect rising tides? - The Indian Express 22-Jul-2021

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Explained: How does the moon ‘wobble’ affect rising tides? - The Indian Express Moon wobble: It is a regular oscillation that humans have known about for centuries, and it is one of many factors that can either exacerbate rising sea levels or counteract them, alongside other variables like weather and geography. More...

Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births - Phys.org 22-Jul-2021

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Supermassive black holes put a brake on stellar births - Phys.org Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers. Using machine learning and three state of the art simulations to back up results from a large sky survey, the researchers resolve a 20-year long … More...

Improving time resolution of CryoEM with laser - Tech Explorist 22-Jul-2021

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Improving time resolution of CryoEM with laser - Tech Explorist Optimizing the observation capabilities of CryoEM. More...

Gene expression mechanism may have immunity, cancer implications - Medical Xpress 22-Jul-2021

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Gene expression mechanism may have immunity, cancer implications - Medical Xpress Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA processing mechanism that regulates gene expression by generating different ends on RNA transcripts of the same gene. Though it affects more than half of human genes, the significance of APA was poorly understood. N… More...

UCI-led study finds unleashing Treg cells may lead to treatments for multiple sclerosis - EurekAlert 22-Jul-2021

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UCI-led study finds unleashing Treg cells may lead to treatments for multiple sclerosis - EurekAlert In a new University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers found that a certain protein prevented regulatory T cells (Tregs) from effectively doing their job in controlling the damaging effects of inflammation in a model of multiple sclerosis (MS), a de… More...

Astrophysicists Say Our Universe Might Actually Be Finite - Interesting Engineering 22-Jul-2021

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Astrophysicists Say Our Universe Might Actually Be Finite - Interesting Engineering We might live in a donut-shaped universe! While big if true, there is ample evidence to support the theory, despite it remaining unconfirmed. More...

Emirates Mars Mission Marks Busy First Year - MENAFN.COM 22-Jul-2021

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Emirates Mars Mission Marks Busy First Year - MENAFN.COM bai, UAE: The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, tomorrow marked a year since the mission's lau More...

NASA predicts that "wobble" in the moon's orbit could lead to record floods on Earth - Texasnewstoday.com 22-Jul-2021

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NASA predicts that "wobble" in the moon's orbit could lead to record floods on Earth - Texasnewstoday.com All coasts of the United States are facing rapidly increasing high-tide floods, thanks to the "wobble" of the lunar orbit, which works in tandem with climate-fueled rises. Sea level.. A new study rece More...

ExoMars Space Orbiter: There are (so far) no signs of life on Mars - Market Research Telecast 22-Jul-2021

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ExoMars Space Orbiter: There are (so far) no signs of life on Mars - Market Research Telecast The gas-tracking team of the Russian-European space program ExoMars has so far not found signs that indicate the presence of life on Mars. ad this week the European Space Agency (ESA). The search carried out ... Read more More...

Astronomers see the black hole jets from the nearest radio galaxy - Tech Explorist 22-Jul-2021

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Astronomers see the black hole jets from the nearest radio galaxy - Tech Explorist The dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy. More...

Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Also Caused Mile-High Tsunami, Scientists Say - Sputnik International 22-Jul-2021

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Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs Also Caused Mile-High Tsunami, Scientists Say - Sputnik International Countless ancient species disappeared from the face of our planet after an asteroid hit it, causing massive climate disruption. But before that, many creatures were hit... More...

Gigantic Asteroid, Size Of A Stadium, To Fly Past Earth On July 24: NASA - NDTV 22-Jul-2021

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Gigantic Asteroid, Size Of A Stadium, To Fly Past Earth On July 24: NASA - NDTV The space agency has classified the orbit of the asteroid under the category of most dangerous asteroids More...

Shark intestines function like Nikola Tesla’s valve - Tech Explorist 22-Jul-2021

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Shark intestines function like Nikola Tesla’s valve - Tech Explorist It's time to use modern technology to look at these really amazing spiral intestines of sharks. More...

At Least 7% Of Human DNA Has Unknown Origin, Despite Strong Evolutionary Links - India Times 22-Jul-2021

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At Least 7% Of Human DNA Has Unknown Origin, Despite Strong Evolutionary Links - India Times Only 7 percent of our DNA is unique to modern humans, which’s different from the early ancestors, says a new study which was published on Friday in the journal Science Advances (highlighted by AP).  Getty ImagesAlso Read: Human DNA Can … More...

Orange Full Moon & Why The Sun Looks Red This Week Explained! - Get India News 22-Jul-2021

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Orange Full Moon & Why The Sun Looks Red This Week Explained! - Get India News The Sun Looks Red This Week in the USA, and Why the Full Thunder Moon will be extra orange this week Explained, There is a story building up as the full thunder moon More...

NASA astronauts grow chili peppers in space: Why the choice of this plant? NASA scientist explains - Times Now 22-Jul-2021

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NASA astronauts grow chili peppers in space: Why the choice of this plant? NASA scientist explains - Times Now Life on ISS is not just about physics and chemistry. Check out this biology class in progress. Astronaut Shane Kimbrough now hopes to harvest chili peppers from the space station's kitchen garden soon. More...

Scientists Create World's Thinnest Magnet - ELE Times 22-Jul-2021

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Scientists Create World's Thinnest Magnet - ELE Times The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could lead to new applications in computing and electronics More...

Apollo 11 Mission Completes 52 Years: NASA Shares Image of Neil Armstrong’s Left Foot on Moon - Gadgets 360 22-Jul-2021

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Apollo 11 Mission Completes 52 Years: NASA Shares Image of Neil Armstrong’s Left Foot on Moon - Gadgets 360 NASA has shared the historic image of man's first step on Moon on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. The image shows Neil Armstrong's left footprint on the surface of the Moon. More...

Scientists discovered global oscillations of the Sun with very long periods - Tech Explorist 22-Jul-2021

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Scientists discovered global oscillations of the Sun with very long periods - Tech Explorist The sound of the Sun. More...

Paleontologists discover new species called microsaur - WION 22-Jul-2021

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Paleontologists discover new species called microsaur - WION Paleontologists have discovered a new species is a microsaur from a finger-sized fossil from  308 million years ago unearthed in the United States. More...

Can we stop Earth from heating up? - Livescience.com 22-Jul-2021

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Can we stop Earth from heating up? - Livescience.com A high-altitude balloon mission would investigate a controversial way to reduce global temperatures. More...

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope captures images of two unusual galaxies - WION 22-Jul-2021

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope captures images of two unusual galaxies - WION The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has said that the Hubble Space Telescope returned to full science operations and captured images of two unusual galaxies. More...

Enigmatic DNA dubbed 'Borgs' discovered in methane-metabolising microbes - Chemistry World 22-Jul-2021

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Enigmatic DNA dubbed 'Borgs' discovered in methane-metabolising microbes - Chemistry World The large nucleic acid structures may help bacteria play a role in regulating global methane More...

No trace of methane on Mars, the ‘mystery’ deepens - The Times Hub 22-Jul-2021

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No trace of methane on Mars, the ‘mystery’ deepens - The Times Hub Time.news – Mars research called ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter by the European Space Agency (ESA) did not give results and set new limits on the quantities of methane present together with ethane, ethylene and phosphine in the atmosphere of Mars, the four so-call… More...

Space-based infrared imaging reveals how winds run BACKWARDS at night on Venus - Daily Mail 22-Jul-2021

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Space-based infrared imaging reveals how winds run BACKWARDS at night on Venus - Daily Mail Using the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki probe, scientists at the University of Tokyo found night winds run in the opposition direction to day winds on Venus. More...

Scientists create the world's first genetically engineered marsupial - Daily Mail 22-Jul-2021

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Scientists create the world's first genetically engineered marsupial - Daily Mail Disrupting a gene responsible for pigments allowed experts in Kobe, Japan to create albino opossum offspring. More...

Scientists discover huge Jurassic seabed with `perfectly preserved` specimens - WION 22-Jul-2021

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Scientists discover huge Jurassic seabed with `perfectly preserved` specimens - WION A secret location in the Cotswolds has yielded one of the most impressive discoveries of perfectly preserved fossils of Jurassic echinoderms. More...

James Webb Space Telescope to explore a neighboring, dusty planetary system - Nanowerk 22-Jul-2021

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James Webb Space Telescope to explore a neighboring, dusty planetary system - Nanowerk Researchers will take stock of the dust in the debris disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris. More...

A mutual exchange: Synthesizing aryl sulfides from non-smelling, non-toxic compounds: Chemists develop a thiol-free technique for synthesizing aryl sulfides using a nickel catalyst - Science Daily 22-Jul-2021

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A mutual exchange: Synthesizing aryl sulfides from non-smelling, non-toxic compounds: Chemists develop a thiol-free technique for synthesizing aryl sulfides using a nickel catalyst - Science Daily The importance of aryl sulfides in biologically active compounds has led chemists to develop methods to synthesize them from carbon-sulfur bond forming reactions. The conventional reaction, however, uses thiols that are foul-smelling and toxic. Now, chemists … More...

'Magic-angle' trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor - Nanowerk 22-Jul-2021

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'Magic-angle' trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor - Nanowerk New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers. More...

Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet - Nature.com 22-Jul-2021

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Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet - Nature.com A new type of Hall effect—the layer Hall effect—is produced in a 2D antiferromagnet that does not exhibit any net magnetization. More...

SpaceX Dragon spacecraft relocates on ISS (Video) - Social News XYZ 22-Jul-2021

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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft relocates on ISS (Video) - Social News XYZ SpaceX Crew-2 Crew Dragon relocates its docking location on the International Space Station. (July 21) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.… More...

Watch: Russia Launches New Science Module To International Space Station - NDTV 22-Jul-2021

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Watch: Russia Launches New Science Module To International Space Station - NDTV A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the new Nauka laboratory module for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Roscosmos space agency said. More...

Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients: Study - Yahoo India News 22-Jul-2021

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Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients: Study - Yahoo India News Washington [US], July 21 (ANI): As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of increased ocean temperatures... More...

'Hubble's back': NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures 'rarely observed' galaxies - Republic World 22-Jul-2021

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'Hubble's back': NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures 'rarely observed' galaxies - Republic World NASA released Hubble's images of a pair of interacting galaxies in the southern hemisphere, named ARP-MADORE2115-273 (left) and ARP-MADORE0002-503 (right). More...

No life will survive the death of the sun — but new life could be born after, new research suggests - Livescience.com 22-Jul-2021

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No life will survive the death of the sun — but new life could be born after, new research suggests - Livescience.com Can life blossom around a dead star? A new study offers hope. More...

LunaH-Map spacecraft safely delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center - Phys.org 22-Jul-2021

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LunaH-Map spacecraft safely delivered to NASA's Kennedy Space Center - Phys.org The ASU-led team that built NASA's Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper, or "LunaH-Map" for short, has safely delivered their spacecraft to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a launch expected later this year on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) … More...

SpaceX tests Super Heavy Booster in hold-down test in Texas - NewsBytes 22-Jul-2021

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SpaceX tests Super Heavy Booster in hold-down test in Texas - NewsBytes While Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos continue to fuss over the Kármán line, SpaceX ignited all the engines on its Super Heavy booster that could fly tourists to Mars one day More...

Brown scorpion and its babies glow stunning shades of blue and purple under UV after light - Daily Mail 22-Jul-2021

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Brown scorpion and its babies glow stunning shades of blue and purple under UV after light - Daily Mail A new video captures the mysterious glowing of scorpions that occurs when the arachnid is exposed to UV light. The clips shows a mother carrying babies on it back that turn unnatural colors. More...

Nighttime weather on Venus revealed for the 1st time - Space.com 22-Jul-2021

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Nighttime weather on Venus revealed for the 1st time - Space.com More...

Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation commit $220M to Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance - ESPN India 22-Jul-2021

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Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation commit $220M to Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance - ESPN India The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation launched the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, which combines six public and private institutions aiming to study the biological principles contributing to peak performance in athletes. More...

YSU's Dr Patrick Durrell is excited that space travel is no longer 'just a NASA thing' - BollyInside - BollyInside 22-Jul-2021

YSU's Dr Patrick Durrell is excited that space travel is no longer 'just a NASA thing' - BollyInside - BollyInside There’s still plenty to see and learn. Plus, it helps us keep a more constant presence in space. Much of the exploration is being done by private More...

Scientists discover 15,000-year-old viruses from Tibetan glaciers - Free Press Journal 22-Jul-2021

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Scientists discover 15,000-year-old viruses from Tibetan glaciers - Free Press Journal Scientists have found viruses nearly 15,000-years-old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen, are unlike any viruses that have been cataloged to date. More...

NASA Perseverance Mars rover to acquire first sample of Martian rock - Zee News 22-Jul-2021

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NASA Perseverance Mars rover to acquire first sample of Martian rock - Zee News NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth. More...