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  Coronavirus can survive on phone screens for up to 7 days, warn scientists

  March 05, 2020 11:04 IST

  Amid massive in the cases of Coronavirus, scientists have warned that COVID-19 can survive on hard surfaces such as phone screens for up to 7 days. The scientists also said that it offers a potential route of infection.

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  Lunar Quest Continues: ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-3 in first half 2021

  March 04, 2020 19:18 IST

  India's lunar ambitions are all set to embark on yet another attempt at landing on the moon. Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) has set first half 2021 as the launch date for Chandrayaan-3.

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  ISRO postpones launch of top notch imagery satellite GISAT-1 due to technical reasons

  March 04, 2020 19:08 IST

  India on Wednesday postponed the launch of its latest earth observation satellite "GISAT-1" onboard powerful geosynchronous rocket due to "technical reasons", a day before its scheduled lift-off from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

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  New explanation for destructive earthquakes developed

  March 04, 2020 7:36 IST

  Drawing from mathematical models that describe the collisions of rocks during landslides and other debris flows, the researchers developed a model that predicts the potential effects of rock collisions in fault zones.

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  NASA accepting applications for aspiring Moon explorers

  March 03, 2020 21:05 IST

  As NASA prepares to send the first woman and next man to the Moon with the Artemis programme, the agency, for the first time in more than four years, has begun accepting applications for future astronauts.

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  Global ocean covered entire Earth 3.2 billion years ago

  March 03, 2020 20:30 IST

  ​Early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld" without a continent in sight- a discovery that can scientists to better understand how and where single-cell organisms first emerged on Earth.  

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  Coronavirus can survive up to 9 DAYS outside body at room temperature: Study

  March 03, 2020 13:31 IST

  Amid fear over Coronavirus, researchers say Coronavirus, named COVID-19 could survive on inanimate surfaces for up to nine days at room temperature. Coronavirus is mainly spread from person to person through coughing or sneezing. Contact with fecal matter from an infected person may also transmit the virus.

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  Cotton candy-like planets may actually have rings

  March 03, 2020 10:45 IST

  In our own solar system, all of the gas and ice giant planets have rings, with the most well-known example being the majestic rings of Saturn. But it has been difficult for astronomers to discover ringed planets orbiting distant stars.

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  Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision

  March 03, 2020 10:25 IST

  With its unique survey of more than one billion stars in our galaxy, Gaia might hold the key to solving this mystery. A team of scientists using data from the second Gaia data release has now confirmed previous hints that this warp is not static but changes its orientation over time.

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  NASA images show drop in China's air pollution after coronavirus lockdown

  March 02, 2020 16:33 IST

  Satellite images by NASA and European Space Agency have shown a significant decline in pollution levels over China, partly due to the economic slowdown following the deadly coronavirus outbreak, the US space agency has said.

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  Australian summers now twice as long as winters due to global warming

  March 02, 2020 10:23 IST

  According to the study, global warming is the reason for the long summers, and extreme temperatures make it more dangerous, and vulnerable to natural disasters such as the bushfires that devastated much of the country since they erupted last September.

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  Male-killing bacteria linked to monarch butterfly colour changes: Study

  March 01, 2020 12:13 IST

  The highly variable colour patterns seen on African monarch butterflies (Danaus chrysippus) which warn predators that the insect is toxic, may arise from its interaction with a bacterium that specifically kills males of the species, a new study says.

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  NASA selects SpaceX for 2022 'Psyche' asteroid mission

  March 01, 2020 7:49 IST

  NASA has selected Elon Musk-run SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency's Psyche mission that would journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

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  Leap day 2020: Meaning, significance of February 29

  February 29, 2020 9:36 IST

  Leap day 2020: The shortest month of the year, February gets the privilege of an 'extra day' called leap day in every fourth year. Today is again that extra day and which obviously makes this year a special year. February 29 is a date that only rarely graces our lives, but plays an enormously important role-- it keeps our annual calendar and the passing of the seasons aligned over very long timescales.

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  Pune telescope helps detect biggest explosion since Big Bang

  February 28, 2020 17:04 IST

  The blast, which released five times more energy than the previous record holder, came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.

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  Researchers discover 17 new planets, including one Earth-sized world

  February 28, 2020 12:39 IST

  Of the other 16 new planets discovered, the smallest is only two-thirds the size of Earth - one of the smallest planets to be found with Kepler so far. The rest range in size up to eight times the size of Earth, the study said.

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  CV Raman: Tiruchi wizrds's rise from humble background to world fame is a story for generation

  February 28, 2020 14:47 IST

  National Science Day 2020: Remembering CV Raman, an eminent physicist and Nobel Laureate: February 28 is marked as National Science Day to commemorate CV Raman's ground-breaking discovery of the 'Raman Effect' — the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules. CV Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.

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  National Science Day 2020: This year's theme is 'Women in Science'

  February 28, 2020 11:37 IST

  Every year on February 28 National Science Day is celebrated to commemorate the discovery of the 'Raman Effect'. The Government designated the day as National Science Day in 1986 as on this day, Sir CV Raman announced the discovery of the 'Raman Effect' for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.

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  Antarctica's ice is bleeding, eerie photos show

  February 28, 2020 10:54 IST

  Gory images of blood-red ice in Antarctica shook the scientists at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica. Marine ecologist Andrey Zotov from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, captured these images while conducting research at the Antarctic station. 

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  Biggest explosion in universe came from black hole

  February 28, 2020 7:21 IST

  The first hint of this giant explosion actually came in 2016. Chandra images of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster revealed an unusual curved edge, but scientists ruled out an eruption given the amount of energy that would have been needed to carve out such a large cavity in the gas.

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  National Science Day: 11 interesting facts about CV Raman

  February 27, 2020 23:50 IST

  National Science Day 2020: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, commonly known as C.V. Raman was one of the greatest physicists of India and the world. Born on November 7, 1888, in Tamil Nadu, CV Raman left a massive impression in the world of Physics by discovering what is known as the "Raman Effect".what is known as the Raman Effect.

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  This large exoplanet could have right conditions for life

  February 27, 2020 21:12 IST

  Research led by an Indian-origin astronomer has found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth that could have the right conditions to sustain alien life.

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  Need to study plastic pollution in rivers: Researcher

  February 27, 2020 17:15 IST

  Plastic pollution is an emerging environmental threat and a comprehensive study needs to be conducted on its accumulation in Indian rivers, estuaries and coastal waters, a senior researcher here said.

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  Noise-cancelling scales in moths help evade bats: Study

  February 27, 2020 16:24 IST

  Some species of moths can absorb as much as 85 per cent of the sound that hunting bats pitch and reflect off the insects to locate them, according to a study which may lead to advanced, bio-inspired acoustic camouflage technology.

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  NASA Orion successfully tests critical launch abort system

  February 27, 2020 12:27 IST

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday took to Twitter to announce that the final test of the Orion spacecraft’s attitude control motor (ACM) has been successful. NASA revealed that when the astronauts blast off for their voyage to the Moon on the Orion spacecraft during Artemis missions, they will have protection in the form of the launch abort system (LAS).

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  Earth has a new mini-moon; and it's there since 3 years

  February 27, 2020 11:22 IST

  Our new moon is probably between 1.9 and 3.5 metres across, or roughly the size of a car, making it no match for Earth’s primary moon. It circles our planet about once every 47 days on a wide, oval-shaped orbit that mostly swoops far outside the larger moon’s path.

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  Why is NASA sending 'Dragonfly' to Titan? Here are five reasons

  February 26, 2020 17:06 IST

  Dragonfly, as the mission is called, will be capable of soaring across the skies of Titan and landing intermittently to take scientific measurements, studying the world’s mysterious atmosphere and topography while searching for hints of life on the only world other than Earth in our solar system with standing liquid on its surface.

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  Scientists find animal that doesn't breathe oxygen | Video

  February 27, 2020 13:52 IST

  A new discovery of an 'alien like' marine animal has left scientists baffled. As per reports, the new parasite that has been discovered by marine biologists does not breathe oxygen. Henneguya Salminicola, the tiny organism that resembles sperm cells, reportedly has two tails and 'alien like eyes'. All this is only visible under a microscope as the organism is very small, reports Live Science.