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  Evidence of water found on Ultima Thule, the farthest place visited by mankind

  May 19, 2019 15:19 IST

  Researchers are also investigating a range of surface features such as bright spots and patches, hills and troughs, and craters and pits on Ultima Thule.

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  Most distant space object looks like man in meditation

  May 19, 2019 13:17 IST

  Called "2014 MU69", the object -- detailed of which are published in the May 17 issue of journal Science -- looks like a human being sitting in a meditative pose, an ancient relic from the era of planet formation.

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  Nuclear power can reduce greenhouse gases: M Venkaiah Naidu

  May 18, 2019 10:37 IST

  The Vice President said India's abiding interest in nuclear energy grew out of a deep conviction that the power of atom could be harnessed to help the country to achieve human and societal development. 

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  SpaceX again postpones launch of 60 Starlink satellites, this time due to 'software issue'

  May 17, 2019 10:35 IST

  With a mass of 18.5 tonne, the launch is the company's heaviest to date for either the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rocket. The rocket will boost 60 Starlink satellites, each weighing 227kg, to an altitude of 440km.

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  Dark smudge, about 10 meters wide: Israeli spacecraft Beresheet's crash site spotted on Moon

  May 17, 2019 8:33 IST

  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took the impact site image from 90 km above the surface.

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  Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission set for July launch: All you need to know

  May 16, 2019 15:59 IST

  Chandrayaan-2, India's second moon mission, is set to be launched in July this year. The lift-off has been scheduled during the launch window of July 9-16, 2019 with an expected moon landing on September 6, 2019.

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  NASA's Artemis to put first woman on Moon

  May 14, 2019 11:12 IST

  NASA's plans for the first woman on the lunar surface ever comes nearly five decades after the men set their foot there.

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  Moon gradually shrinking and causing earthquakes, has become 150 feet 'skinnier': Study

  May 14, 2019 8:51 IST

  The first seismic activity on the Moon was measured by the Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s, which found out that vast majority had occurred deep in the body's interior while a smaller number were on its surface.

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  'Brain' of world's largest radio telescope designed. Here's all you need to know

  May 13, 2019 17:21 IST

  Scientists at Cambridge have finished designing the 'brain' of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope.

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  Artificial Intelligence overtakes humans in predicting death, heart attack risk

  May 13, 2019 15:06 IST

  By repeatedly analysing 85 variables in 950 patients with known six-year outcomes, an algorithm "learned" how imaging data interacts. 

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  Octopus farming 'unethical, threat to food chain’: Scientists warn

  May 12, 2019 17:23 IST

  Experts say that farming octopuses would require the catching of vast amounts of fish and shellfish to feed them, putting further pressure on the planet's already threatened marine livestock.

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  ISRO to launch radar imaging satellite RISAT on May 22

  May 12, 2019 8:52 IST

  Like the previous launch events, the ISRO has made provisions for public to view the launch from recently opened Viewer's Gallery at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in Andhra Pradesh.  

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  People trust machines more than humans for sharing data

  May 11, 2019 12:30 IST

  The faith in machines may be triggered because people believe that machines do not gossip, or have unlawful designs on their private information.

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  Scientists devise wireless movement-tracking system for collecting health data

  May 09, 2019 18:39 IST

  ​Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a wireless movement-tracking system that uses radio frequency signals -- flowing around us and bouncing off our bodies -- and helps collect health and behavioural data.  

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  Radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests found in deep ocean trenches

  May 09, 2019 14:07 IST

  Organisms at the ocean surface have incorporated this "bomb carbon" into the molecules that make up their bodies since the late 1950s. 

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  How Coca-Cola retains power to kill some health research

  May 09, 2019 11:36 IST

  The study, published in the Journal of Public Health Policy, identified several clauses in legal documents that give the company early sight of any findings, combined with the right to "terminate without reason" and walk away with the data and intellectual property.

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  New artificial intelligence model can predict future risk of breast cancer

  May 09, 2019 11:16 IST

  For the study, the researchers used almost 90,000 full-resolution screening mammograms from about 40,000 women to train, validate and test the deep learning model.

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  NASA spacecraft to collide a small moonlet in 2022

  May 07, 2019 15:08 IST

  The US space agency NASA revealed on Monday details about its plan to hit a small moonlet target in a double asteroid system with a spacecraft in 2022, its first mission to demonstrate a planetary defence technique.  

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  NASA spacecraft to crash into small moonlet to demonstrate its planetary defence technique

  May 07, 2019 8:45 IST

  The spacecraft, called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will carry an optical navigation system to capture images that help the spacecraft reach its target.

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  Researchers at IIT Mandi develop self-cleaning glass that purifies water using sunlight

  May 06, 2019 14:00 IST

  The team has developed a transparent calcium borate glasses and TiO2 crystallised glass nanocomposites which can kill microbes and break down organic chemicals in the presence of solar light.

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  Shrimps in UK found positive for cocaine

  May 05, 2019 16:33 IST

  Researchers at King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Suffolk, tested 15 different locations across Suffolk and were “surprised” to discover cocaine in all of them.

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  SpaceX launches cargo mission to space station

  May 05, 2019 16:10 IST

  After several attempts earlier, SpaceX on Saturday successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft for its 17th resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

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  Exploring uncharted territory: ISRO eyeing to launch Chandrayaan-II rover in Moon's south pole for the first time

  May 03, 2019 23:45 IST

  Looking to explore a uncharted territory, space agency ISRO will attempt to launch a rover of Chandrayaan 2 in the lunar South pole for the first time. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan, till date nobody has made an attempt to land a rover in the region. It has been only near the equator of the Moon.

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  Crew Dragon capsule destroyed during engine test: SpaceX

  May 03, 2019 9:02 IST

  The accident may delay SpaceX and the US space agency NASA's plan to launch astronauts to the International Space Station by the end of the year.

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  Space rock hit Moon during January's total eclipse

  May 02, 2019 14:48 IST

  A space rock collided with the Moon at a speed of 61,000 kilometres an hour during the total lunar eclipse in January this year, excavating a crater 10 to 15 metres across, scientists say. 

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  Chandrayaan-2 modules getting ready for launch in July, says ISRO

  May 01, 2019 23:22 IST

  All modules of India's second moon mission "Chandrayaan-2", scheduled for launch in July, are getting ready and the lander is expected to touch down on the lunar surface in early September, the ISRO said on Wednesday.

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  Scientists in Chile find 15,000-year-old footprint

  May 01, 2019 10:24 IST

  The discovery challenges the previous timeline and map of human migration into South America.

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  Why NASA wants woman to stay on International Space Station for 11 months

  April 29, 2019 15:52 IST

  Astronaut Christina Koch will set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman when she completes her 11-month-long mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2020. Her long stay on ISS has to do with NASA's preparation of human missions to the Moon and Mars.