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  Scientists: World still isn't ready for gene-edited babies

  November 30, 2018 8:59 IST

  The scientists gathered in Hong Kong this week for an international conference on gene editing, the ability to rewrite the code of life to try to correct or prevent diseases.  

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  Ancient wildfires helped spread grasslands on Earth: Scientists

  November 30, 2018 8:56 IST

  The study found that frequent, seasonal fires nearly 10 million years ago, in the late Miocene -- Geologic time period -- helped turn forested areas into open landscapes, and drove the expansion of grasslands.  

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  NASA selects 9 US companies to make lunar robotic payloads

  November 30, 2018 8:54 IST

  NASA would buy space on commercial robotic landers to deliver payloads to the lunar surface, missions that could start as early as next year, Xinhua news agency reported.  

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  ISRO successfully launches HysIS satellite, 30 others with PSLV-C43 rocket

  November 29, 2018 10:28 IST

  This mission, the sixth one this year made use of a polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV), also witnessed the launch of HysIS – India’s own earth observation satellite.

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  Scientists regrow hair on wounded skin

  November 28, 2018 15:32 IST

  The findings by researchers at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine in the US better explain why hair does not normally grow on wounded skin.  

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  NASA eyes return to Moon, to announce partnerships with US companies

  November 28, 2018 15:19 IST

  Working with US companies is the next step to achieving long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and Mars, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.  

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  Geological Survey of India to use NASA-developed tech to locate minerals

  November 28, 2018 11:57 IST

  An MoU was signed with Geoscience Australia as a part of 'Project Uncover' to explore the minerals along the stretch of 9,000 sq km from Sikar district to Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh. An MoU is also underway with ONGC to explore new minerals.

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  India to launch earth observation satellite, 30 small satellites from 8 countries on Thursday

  November 27, 2018 17:30 IST

  According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Core Alone variant (PSLV-CA) will fly with the 380 kg Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite and 30 others together weighing 261.5 kg.  

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  NASA's Insight spacecraft successfully lands on Mars after six-month journey

  November 27, 2018 16:30 IST

  The lander sent signals indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface, InSight mission team said in a statement.   

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  NASA's Mars CubeSat success paves way for launch of smaller planetary probes

  November 27, 2018 14:30 IST

  The mission objectives of the two small Mars Cube One (MarCO) which relayed InSight's telemetry was completed after their Martian flyby, NASA said in a statement.

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  'Touchdown confirmed': NASA's InSight spacecraft lands on Mars to probe red planet's interior

  November 27, 2018 7:39 IST

  Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA's first Mars landing since the Curiosity rover in 2012 and the first dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars.

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  Anxiety abounds at NASA as Mars landing day arrives

  November 26, 2018 18:50 IST

  The InSight lander aimed for an afternoon touchdown, as anxiety built among those involved in the $1 billion international effort.  

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  Scientists to undertake 'most detailed whale poo expedition ever'

  November 26, 2018 18:43 IST

  "I want to show that whales are ecosystem engineers," Lavenia Ratnarajah, a marine biogeochemist at the University of Liverpool, was quoted as saying.   

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  NASA weighs in on petroleum development in Arctic Ocean

  November 26, 2018 8:06 IST

  The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in April sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management estimating that 70 rocket parts have landed in the Beaufort Sea since the 1960s.

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  NASA Mars InSight lander mission to teach us more about Earth

  November 25, 2018 18:47 IST

  It is going to use seismometers to study the planet's interior so we can learn more about how it formed and why it's so different from Earth, BBC reported on Sunday.  

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  Big earthquake waiting to strike Delhi-NCR?

  November 25, 2018 17:27 IST

  If a large magnitude earthquake occurs in the near future in the northwest (NW) Himalayas region as predicted by a recent study, the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi would suffer very heavy damage.

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  ESA probe beams unveils Mars landscape shaped by water, wind and ice

  November 25, 2018 15:38 IST

  Lying at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere, the region is an example of past activity on the planet.  

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  NASA's new Mars rover InSight set to unveil story of solar system's origin

  November 25, 2018 9:28 IST

  By studying the preserved heart of Mars, InSight can teach us how our solar system’s rocky planets formed 4 1/2 billion years ago and why they turned out so different.

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  Russia will verify American moon landings: Official

  November 25, 2018 7:41 IST

  Conspiracies surrounding NASA's moon missions are common in Russia.

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  NASA, SpaceX gear up to test rocket that will carry people to space

  November 24, 2018 17:14 IST

  As part of the preparation, the space agency will first shoot out a test flight on January 7. 

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  ESA's Mars Express sends new images of Martian landscape

  November 24, 2018 14:13 IST

  The region, a furrowed, rock-filled escarpment known as Nili Fossae sits at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere.   

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  Named for Roman god of war, Mars isn't very kind to visitors

  November 24, 2018 9:13 IST

  The United States is the only country to successfully operate a spacecraft on the Martian surface. InSight represents NASA's ninth attempt to put a spacecraft on Mars; only one effort failed.

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  Hominins not behind extinction of giant African mammals: Study

  November 24, 2018 8:55 IST

  The study, published in the journal Science, argued that falling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and the replacement of large shrubs and trees by grasslands caused the decline of megaherbivores.  

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  MIT engineers fly first-ever silent plane with no moving parts

  November 24, 2018 8:49 IST

  "This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving parts in the propulsion system," said Steven Barrett, Associate Professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the MIT.

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  International Space Station completes 20 years in orbit | All you need to know

  November 23, 2018 17:18 IST

  The ISS was launched on November 20, 1998 and it is still the largest human-made object in low Earth orbit which can often be seen with the naked eye from Earth.

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  NASA concerned about ISS toilet microbes capable of potential health implications

  November 23, 2018 13:46 IST

  For the study, published in the journal BMC Microbiology, the ISS strains were compared to all publicly available genomes of 1,291 Enterobacter strains collected on Earth.

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  Tiny satellites trailing Mars lander to face big test

  November 23, 2018 13:34 IST

  NASA kept the CubeSats about 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) away from InSight during the 300 million-mile (483 million-kilometer) journey to Mars.

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  Decoded: How Mars moon Phobos got its grooves?

  November 23, 2018 7:37 IST

  Phobos' grooves, which are visible across most of the moon's surface, were first identified in the 1970s by NASA's Mariner and Viking missions.