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  China lands on Mars in latest advance for its space program

  May 15, 2021 7:12 IST

  China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space programme.

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  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft way back to Earth with asteroid sample

  May 11, 2021 20:00 IST

  After nearly five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the US space agency said.

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  NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

  May 11, 2021 11:47 IST

  With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.

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  Scientists develop better way to block viruses causing respiratory infections in children

  May 11, 2021 11:50 IST

  Researchers have improved a method in rodent models intended to help keep children healthy by engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells.

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  SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff

  May 09, 2021 22:18 IST

  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early and then stuck a landing at sea to cap a record 10th flight for the company's reusable booster.

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  NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes first one-way trip

  May 09, 2021 21:28 IST

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has added many firsts to its kitty. After becoming the first to test power flight on another world and to capture the colour image of the Martian surface, the mini helicopter has now completed its fifth flight with a first short one-way trip.

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  NASA denounces China over 'irresponsible standards' after its rocket disintegrates over Indian Ocean

  May 09, 2021 19:54 IST

  American space agency NASA on Sunday slammed China for failing to meet "responsible standards" regarding its space debris, hours after remnants of the country's largest and an out of control rocket disintegrated over the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.

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  Debris of China’s disintegrating rocket falls into Indian Ocean

  May 09, 2021 10:23 IST

  The coordinates put the splash down in the Indian Ocean, close to the Maldives, Hong-Kong based South China Mornig Post reported, adding that most the remnants burned up during the re-entry.  

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  Chinese Rocket spiraled out of control, to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

  May 09, 2021 9:04 IST

  The spent stage of China's Long March 5B-Rocket that launched last month is expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere

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  String of satellites baffles residents, bugs astronomers

  May 09, 2021 8:19 IST

  A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the US on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday had some people wondering if a fleet of UFOs was coming

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  Double-mutant variant shows enhanced host cell entry, immune evasion

  May 08, 2021 15:25 IST

  Double-mutant variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS-CoV-2 -- B.1.617 -- that has emerged in India, entered certain types of lung and intestine cells with slightly increased efficiency compared with the original wild-type strain, say researchers.

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  Trinity College research finds why COVID 19 is to hard to treat

  May 08, 2021 9:39 IST

  Study conducted at Trinity College Dublin suggests that a comprehensive look into COVID 19 suggests that it has a unique infectious profile

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  NASA Mars helicopter heard humming through planet's thin air

  May 08, 2021 8:57 IST

  NASA is sharing sounds of its Ingenuity helicopter humming through the thin Martian air.

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  Disintegrated space rocket 'highly unlikely' to cause any damage on earth: China

  May 07, 2021 16:50 IST

  Replying to questions about the Long March 5B rocket, which last week launched the core module of the country's space station and started hurtling down to Earth, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing on Friday that China will provide timely updates on it.

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  US tracking out-of-control wreckage of Chinese rocket falling back to earth

  May 06, 2021 0:11 IST

  The debris of China's Long March 5B rocket, which last week launched the core module of the country's space station, is set to re-enter the earth's atmosphere this weekend, raising concerns where it could fall and the potential damage it could cause.

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  How antibodies neutralise Covid infection decoded

  May 05, 2021 16:24 IST

  About 40 per cent of the circulating antibodies target the stalk of the spike protein, called the S2 subunit, which is also a part that the virus does not seem able to change easily, the researchers explained in the paper published in the journal Science.

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  N440K variant fades as B1617 picks up, say scientists on COVID-19 second wave

  May 05, 2021 13:52 IST

  Dismissing media reports that N440K is the variant causing chaos in Visakhapatnam and other parts of Andhra Pradesh, Divya Tej Sowpati a scientist at CCMB said while N440K was indeed a mutation of concern in South India during and after the first wave, current data show it is replaced by new variants such as B1617 and B117.

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  100 million-year-old bones of sauropod dinosaurs discovered in Meghalaya

  May 04, 2021 19:40 IST

  Researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills District in Meghalaya. 

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  Social distancing not enough to cut Covid risk indoors: Study

  May 03, 2021 15:42 IST

  Are you maintaining a distance of two-metres with your colleagues at work, co-passengers in public transport? You may still be at risk of contracting the Covid infection, says a study.

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  Covid's spike protein plays key role in illness: Study

  May 02, 2021 16:59 IST

  SARS-CoV-2's distinctive "spike" proteins have been known to infect its host by latching on to healthy cells, but scientists have, in a new study, showed that they also play a key role in the disease.

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  After flight on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to begin new demo phase

  May 01, 2021 9:32 IST

  After flying over the Red Planet, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter is now set to begin a new demonstration phase

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  Brazilian Covid variant more transmissible can evade immunity

  April 29, 2021 15:28 IST

  The team from Brazil, the UK and University of Copenhagen estimated that "there is an aggressive variant of the coronavirus called P1 which seems to be the cause of problems" in Manaus city, Brazil.

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  NASA astronaut successfully harvests 2 plants in space

  April 28, 2021 18:05 IST

  NASAs Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins has harvested two crops in space -- 'Amara' mustard, and a previously grown crop, 'Extra Dwarf' pak choi. 

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  EXPLAINER: China prepares space station core module launch

  April 28, 2021 14:40 IST

  When completed by late 2022, Tianhe is expected to weigh about 66 tons, a fraction the size of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and will weigh about 450 tons when completed.

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  New nanobody-based treatments may help fight Covid

  April 27, 2021 16:52 IST

  The nanobody also recognised the original SARS-CoV virus (which causes SARS), indicating it may provide cross-protection against these two human coronaviruses, the researchers said.

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  Hubble images show giant star on edge of destruction

  April 26, 2021 15:34 IST

  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a brilliant "celebrity star," one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust and living on the edge of destruction.

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  ISRO to launch data relay satellites to track Gaganyaan

  April 25, 2021 16:12 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gagangyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said. 

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  Ingenuity Helicopter snaps first aerial colour image of Mars

  April 25, 2021 14:39 IST

  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has captured the first colour image of the Martian surface.