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Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy Rocket Roars Into Orbit with Tesla Blasting David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' - Billboard 23-Jul-2021

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Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy Rocket Roars Into Orbit with Tesla Blasting David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' - Billboard SpaceX pulled off a flawless first launch for its huge new rocket, whose payload included Musk's personal red Tesla roadster. More...

Physicists Just Broke The Record For World's Thinnest Magnet, And It's Wild - ScienceAlert 23-Jul-2021

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Physicists Just Broke The Record For World's Thinnest Magnet, And It's Wild - ScienceAlert A slice of material just a single atom thick is breaking records. More...

Lunar orbit ‘wobble’ could result in high-tide flooding rise in the 2030s: NASA researchers - News Nation USA 23-Jul-2021

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Lunar orbit ‘wobble’ could result in high-tide flooding rise in the 2030s: NASA researchers - News Nation USA By the mid-2030s, scientists believe that coastal regions in the U.S. will begin to experience an increase in high-tide flooding (HTF), partially due to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit. In a NASA-led s More...

NASA marks 20 years of ISS spacewalks, but not all have been smooth sailing - Digital Trends 23-Jul-2021

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NASA marks 20 years of ISS spacewalks, but not all have been smooth sailing - Digital Trends NASA is marking 20 years since one of its astronauts emerged for the first time from the International Space Station’s Quest airlock into the cold void of space. More...

Meet SuperBIT Telescope, potential successor to NASA`s aged Hubble Telescope - WION 23-Jul-2021

Meet SuperBIT Telescope, potential successor to NASA`s aged Hubble Telescope - WION Hubble Telescopes rival is set for take off in the next year! The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) will be sent into the upper atmosphere via a strapped balloon - roughly the size of a modern stadium. More...

Here's a badass picture of plasma jets shooting out of a supermassive black hole - TNW 23-Jul-2021

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Here's a badass picture of plasma jets shooting out of a supermassive black hole - TNW In 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow — a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around ... More...

The Sinking of Liberty Bell 7: Gus Grissom's Near-Fatal Mission - National Air and Space Museum 23-Jul-2021

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The Sinking of Liberty Bell 7: Gus Grissom's Near-Fatal Mission - National Air and Space Museum Space history curator Michael Neufeld tells the story of Gus Grissom's suborbital flight in July 1961 and the blown hatch that resulted in the sinking of his Mercury capsule. More...

3D images of sharks' spiraled intestines reveal they work like Nikola Tesla's one-way valve - Daily Mail 23-Jul-2021

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3D images of sharks' spiraled intestines reveal they work like Nikola Tesla's one-way valve - Daily Mail 3D images of shark intestines show the spiral-shaped organs slow the movement of food and direct it downward through the gut, all of which is done through the use of gravity. More...

Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA 'Borgs' Blur Boundaries. - Quanta Magazine 23-Jul-2021

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Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA 'Borgs' Blur Boundaries. - Quanta Magazine Scientists have reported large DNA structures in some archaea that defy easy categorization. More...

NASA's Webb to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System - NASA 23-Jul-2021

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NASA's Webb to Explore a Neighboring, Dusty Planetary System - NASA Researchers will take stock of the dust in the debris disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris. More...

New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots - Tech Xplore 23-Jul-2021

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New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots - Tech Xplore For the first time, an autonomously flying quadrotor has outperformed two human pilots in a drone race. The success is based on a novel algorithm that was developed by researchers of the University of Zurich. It calculates time-optimal trajectories that fully… More...

If there is life around a white dwarf, it evolved after the star died - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside 23-Jul-2021

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If there is life around a white dwarf, it evolved after the star died - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside The work showed that as a red giant ages, its stellar winds are capable of stripping nearby planets of their atmospheres. Red giant stars balloon up to a More...

Playing game on smartphone to escape boredom can be harmful, warns study - Free Press Journal 23-Jul-2021

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Playing game on smartphone to escape boredom can be harmful, warns study - Free Press Journal According to a new study, smartphone gaming can be harmful to players who game to escape their negative mood and feelings of boredom. More...

NASA won't rush Mars mission over US 'space race' with China - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside 23-Jul-2021

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NASA won't rush Mars mission over US 'space race' with China - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside NASA won’t rush its planned mission to Mars in the late 2030s and risk human life, despite being in a “space race” with China, said Administrator Bill More...

The Ancient 'Eye of Sauron' Has Been Discovered, And It's an Undersea Volcano - ScienceAlert 23-Jul-2021

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The Ancient 'Eye of Sauron' Has Been Discovered, And It's an Undersea Volcano - ScienceAlert Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly revealed by multibeam sonar 3,100 meters (10,170 ft) below our vessel, 280 kilometers (174 miles) southeast of Christmas Island. More...

Venus night weather revealed - Tech Explorist 23-Jul-2021

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Venus night weather revealed - Tech Explorist The weather forecast for Venus. More...

World News | ⚡ July's Full Moon Likely to be Orange in Colour on Friday Due to Wildfires in US and Canada - LatestLY 23-Jul-2021

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World News | ⚡ July's Full Moon Likely to be Orange in Colour on Friday Due to Wildfires in US and Canada - LatestLY Read Latest World News Quickly Here | People in the northern hemisphere will witness "Orange" moon on Friday, i.e. July 23, 2021. The colour of the full moon will appear to be orange in parts of the US and Canada due to climate change. The full moon… More...

Misinformation prevalent in cancer articles on social media: Study - Devdiscourse 23-Jul-2021

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Misinformation prevalent in cancer articles on social media: Study - Devdiscourse Of the 200 articles that the researchers analyzed, 33% contained misinformation, of which, 77% contained information that could negatively influence patient outcomes. More...

VFX Artist 'Unwraps' Classic Apollo Pic to Show Us What Buzz Aldrin Saw on The Moon - ScienceAlert 23-Jul-2021

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VFX Artist 'Unwraps' Classic Apollo Pic to Show Us What Buzz Aldrin Saw on The Moon - ScienceAlert Fifty-two years after the first historical Moon landing, we've been given a brand new perspective of a classic Apollo-era photo. More...

Amateur Astronomer Discovers Jupiter’s New Moon In His Summer Vacation - India Times 23-Jul-2021

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Amateur Astronomer Discovers Jupiter’s New Moon In His Summer Vacation - India Times For the first time ever, an amateur astronomer has discovered an unknown moon around Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet, while revisiting some of his previously captured telescope images. NASAAlso Read: Scientists Solve Jupiter'… More...

Protecting the planet from launches when our billionaires are hell-bent on ruling space - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside 23-Jul-2021

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Protecting the planet from launches when our billionaires are hell-bent on ruling space - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside Mr. Richard Branson took ahead to experience gravity while Elon Musk is looking forward to Space rule through Starlink and Rideshare missions. And Bezos More...

4 Mysterious Free-floating Planets Discovered by Scientists that Look a Lot Like Earth | TechQuila - TechQuila 23-Jul-2021

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4 Mysterious Free-floating Planets Discovered by Scientists that Look a Lot Like Earth | TechQuila - TechQuila Scientists have discovered an entire group of rogue free-floating planets in deep space that look a lot similar to planet Earth. Here's all you need to know. More...

A rare type of superconductivity observed in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene - Tech Explorist 23-Jul-2021

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A rare type of superconductivity observed in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene - Tech Explorist New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers. More...

Giant stadium-sized asteroid hurtling towards the Earth: All you need to know - Jagran Josh 23-Jul-2021

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Giant stadium-sized asteroid hurtling towards the Earth: All you need to know - Jagran Josh The giant asteroid is expected to fly past Earth on Saturday, July 24 in Europe, which would be early morning on Sunday, July 25 in Indian Standard More...

Hawking’s Black Hole Theorem Approved After 50 Years by MIT Scientists | TechQuila - TechQuila 23-Jul-2021

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Hawking’s Black Hole Theorem Approved After 50 Years by MIT Scientists | TechQuila - TechQuila 50 years after the late scientist proposed it, Hawking’s black hole theorem based on gravitational waves has been proven observationally by scientists. More...

Astronomers discover a moon-forming disc around a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet - Daily Mail 23-Jul-2021

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Astronomers discover a moon-forming disc around a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet - Daily Mail The new moons were created from a dusty circle surrounding a gas giant world that is 370 light years from the Earth, explained astronomers from University of Grenoble, France. More...

University of Washington: New 3D images of shark intestines show they function like Nikola Tesla’s valve - India Education Diary 23-Jul-2021

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University of Washington: New 3D images of shark intestines show they function like Nikola Tesla’s valve - India Education Diary Contrary to what popular media portrays, we actually don’t know much about what sharks eat. Even less is known about how they digest their food, and the role they play in the larger ocean ecosystem.For more than a century, researchers have relied on More...

NASA to use a football stadium-sized balloon to lift the ‘successor’ to the Hubble telescope - Times of India 23-Jul-2021

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NASA to use a football stadium-sized balloon to lift the ‘successor’ to the Hubble telescope - Times of India It has been designed by the University of Toronto, Princeton University and Durham University in England together, in conjunction with NASA and the Ca More...

Russia Launches Huge ‘Nauka’ Module to International Space Station after Years of Delay - NewsClick 23-Jul-2021

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Russia Launches Huge ‘Nauka’ Module to International Space Station after Years of Delay - NewsClick The Nauka will not only have research facilities in it but also provide a spare bed for one cosmonaut along with a toilet, oxygen generation system and facilities for recycling water from urine. More...

Scientists Discover 15,000-Year-Old Unknown Viruses In Tibetan Glacier Ice - Mashable India 23-Jul-2021

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Scientists Discover 15,000-Year-Old Unknown Viruses In Tibetan Glacier Ice - Mashable India It has recently come to light that scientists have discovered unknown mysterious viruses that’s 15,000-years-old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of these viruses survived as they were frozen. More...

DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science - QNT 23-Jul-2021

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DeepMind says it will release the structure of every protein known to science - QNT As early as December 2020, DeepMind shocked the biological world Solved 50 years of major challenges with AlphaFold, An artificial intelligence tool for predicting protein structure.Last week, the London-based company released Full details of the tool And rel… More...

DeepMind's AI predicts structures for a vast trove of proteins - Nature.com 23-Jul-2021

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DeepMind's AI predicts structures for a vast trove of proteins - Nature.com AlphaFold neural network produced a ‘totally transformative’ database of more than 350,000 structures from Homo sapiens and 20 model organisms. More...

Algorithm beats human pilots in drone race for the 1st time - Futurity: Research News 23-Jul-2021

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Algorithm beats human pilots in drone race for the 1st time - Futurity: Research News Researchers have created an algorithm that can find the fastest path for a drone to fly. It even beat human pilots flying drones in a race. More...

NASA shows moon over the Arctic during last month's solar eclipse that looks like a smudge - Daily Mail 23-Jul-2021

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NASA shows moon over the Arctic during last month's solar eclipse that looks like a smudge - Daily Mail NASA shared an of the moon's shadow hovering over the Arctic during last month's solar eclipse, taken on June 10 by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera. More...

NASA craft provides an insight into Mars' interior – Physics World - physicsworld.com 23-Jul-2021

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NASA craft provides an insight into Mars' interior – Physics World - physicsworld.com Insight mission reveals tantalising details about how Mars may have formed across billions of years More...

New study provides clues to decades-old mystery about cell movement - Phys.org 23-Jul-2021

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New study provides clues to decades-old mystery about cell movement - Phys.org A new study, led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities engineering researchers, shows that the stiffness of protein fibers in tissues, like collagen, are a key component in controlling the movement of cells. The groundbreaking discovery provides the first pr… More...

Jupiter 80th Moon Appears In CFH Telescope's 2003 Photo: Newbie Astronomer Corrects NASA's Record - Tech Times 23-Jul-2021

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Jupiter 80th Moon Appears In CFH Telescope's 2003 Photo: Newbie Astronomer Corrects NASA's Record - Tech Times She claimed that there are a total of 80 moons! More...

Mars Rover Perseverance is Ready to Start Taking Samples from the Red Planet' Jezero ... - Latest Tweet by - LatestLY 23-Jul-2021

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Mars Rover Perseverance is Ready to Start Taking Samples from the Red Planet' Jezero ... - Latest Tweet by - LatestLY The latest Tweet by Reuters states, 'Mars rover Perseverance is ready to start taking samples from the red planet' Jezero Crater, according to @NASA scientists' More...

Indian scientists on team which found 80 star explosions - The New Indian Express 23-Jul-2021

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Indian scientists on team which found 80 star explosions - The New Indian Express Previous surveys by various other teams had so far detected 270 SNRs, all of them observed by the radio emissions through the interstellar space. More...