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  Chandrayaan-2, India's second mission to moon, set for July 15 launch | Details

  June 12, 2019 17:20 IST

  Chandrayaan-2, India's second mission to the moon, will be launched on July 15. ISRO chairperson Dr K Sivan announced on Wednesday that Chandrayaan-2 will carry 13 scientific sattelites with it and weighs about 3.8 tonnes, the equivalent of eight elephants.

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  India successfully conducts maiden flight test of unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft

  June 12, 2019 16:11 IST

  India successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) from a base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday.  

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  Mysterious metal beneath Moon's surface is changing its gravity

  June 12, 2019 12:57 IST

  Data obtained from NASA indicates that the massive amount of metal may have accumulated at the Moon's south pole due to an asteroid impact.

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  NASA's Mars helicopter testing enters final phase

  June 10, 2019 11:46 IST

  "Nobody's built a Mars Helicopter before, so we are continuously entering new territory," said MiMi Aung, project manager for the Mars Helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US.

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  NASA offers live view of Mars 2020 rover in making

  June 09, 2019 16:20 IST

  NASA has installed a webcam that allows the public to get a live, bird's-eye view of its Mars 2020 rover as it takes shape, the US space agency said.

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  This is how Internet may be changing your brain

  June 07, 2019 16:48 IST

  "Given we now have most of the world's factual information literally at our fingertips, this appears to have the potential to begin changing the ways in which we store, and even value, facts and knowledge in society, and in the brain," says an Australian researcher.

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  Exomoons may be home to alien life: Study

  June 07, 2019 13:34 IST

  Gravitational forces between all particles were calculated and used to update the positions, velocities and accelerations in the computer models of the planet and its ring system.

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  Mystery of deep-sea dragonfish's see-through teeth solved

  June 06, 2019 14:10 IST

  According to the study published in the journal Matter, the adaptation results from their teeth having an unusually crystalline nanostructure mixed with amorphous regions.

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  Human cells can recall story of their development

  June 06, 2019 13:47 IST

  Different cell types in the body all share the same DNA. Their differences come from how their genes are controlled. One control element is the enhancer, a region of DNA that turns genes on and off.

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  40-year-old black hole mystery solved by 'best ever' simulation

  June 06, 2019 11:47 IST

  The finding solves a longstanding mystery, originally presented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen and astrophysicist Jacobus Petterson in 1975.

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  China launches its first rocket from mobile platform in sea

  June 05, 2019 20:10 IST

  For the first time, China Wednesday successfully launched a rocket from a mobile launch platform in the Yellow Sea, sending two technology experiment satellites and five commercial satellites into space.

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  Torrential rain more frequent with global warming: Study

  June 05, 2019 13:14 IST

  The number of extreme downpours increased steadily between 1964 and 2013 -- a period when global warming also intensified, according to research published in the journal Water Resources Research.

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  High-flying balloons, quality air-sensors being used to fight air pollution

  June 04, 2019 23:19 IST

  As air pollution threatens everyone -- from unborn babies to children walking to school, to people cooking over open fires -- scientists are employing a wide variety of technologies like high-altitude balloons and biosensors to monitor air quality to help in the fight against the global public health emergency.  

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  Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos test fired

  June 04, 2019 22:17 IST

  Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos on Tuesday was test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha. The anti-ship version of the missile was launched around noon from the launch complex-3 of the ITR, Defence Research and Development (DRDO) sources said.

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  Flexible generators harness energy from movements

  June 03, 2019 12:50 IST

  Researchers from Rice University in the US adapted laser-induced graphene (LIG) into small, metal-free devices that generate electricity.

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  Three US firms chosen to help NASA land US astronauts on Moon

  June 01, 2019 20:09 IST

  "Our selection of these US commercial landing service providers represents America's return to the Moon's surface for the first time in decades, and it's a huge step forward for our Artemis lunar exploration plans," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

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  100 years ago, a solar eclipse made Einstein famous

  May 29, 2019 18:07 IST

  A century ago, a few adventurous astronomers pointed their telescopes at the skies, observing one of the most famous solar eclipses that helped transform our understanding of the universe forever.  

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  Here's what scientist Madhavan Nair expects from Modi Sarkar 2.0

  May 29, 2019 17:53 IST

  The new government at the Centre needs to pay lot more attention to science & technology, an eminent scientist said on Wednesday and raised the pitch for setting up science council of India for an efficient and focused approach towards research and development programmes.

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  The solar eclipse that made Albert Einstein famous

  May 29, 2019 17:40 IST

  On May 29, 1919, Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington verified Einstein's theory by observing the apparent deflection of stars from their normal positions during a solar eclipse.

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  E-cigarette use may increase heart disease risk: Study

  May 28, 2019 12:04 IST

  The severity of the damage, aspects of which occur even in the absence of nicotine, varies among popular flavours, the researchers said. Cinnamon and menthol were found to be particularly harmful.

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  DRDO successfully test fires Akash surface-to-air missile

  May 27, 2019 22:16 IST

  India on Monday successfully test fired an Akash-MK-1S missile from the integrated test range at Chandipur in Odisha, the defence ministry said.

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  NASA’s first-of-kind tests look to manage drones in cities

  May 24, 2019 17:23 IST

  NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator’s line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above busy streets and buildings.  

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  SpaceX creates history by launching 60 Starlink satellites

  May 24, 2019 10:20 IST

  It was the third flight for this particular booster, marking just the second time SpaceX has flown a Falcon 9 first stage more than twice.

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  NASA invites public to submit their names to fly aboard Mars 2020 rover

  May 22, 2019 18:01 IST

  Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is inviting the public to submit their names to fly to the Red Planet aboard the US space agency's Mars 2020 rover.

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  Formation of Moon brought water, made life possible on earth: Study

  May 22, 2019 11:55 IST

  The Moon was formed when Earth was hit by a body about the size of Mars, also called Theia. The study showed that Theia comes from the outer solar system, and it delivered large quantities of water to Earth.

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  Formation of Moon brought water to Earth: Study

  May 22, 2019 11:25 IST

  The Earth is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilises the Earth's axis.

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  Countdown begins for PSLV RISAT-2B launch tomorrow

  May 21, 2019 13:21 IST

  The countdown for the Wednesday launch of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying the radar imaging earth observation satellite, RISAT-2B began on Tuesday, said an ISRO official.

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  Climate a leading driver of language diversity, reveals Study

  May 20, 2019 13:28 IST

  A region's climate has a greater impact than landscape on how many languages are spoken there, according to a study that mapped language diversity around the world. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that areas with more productive climates tend to have more languages.