Science News
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Darwin man claims to have seen the weirdest thing on Google Maps, a ‘UFO’
Nov 27, 2017, 04:05 PM ISTWhen Dean Stocks clicked on the Ambrose Street location and zoomed in with Google Street View, he saw something that was hard to believe on.
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Rise in oxygen levels led to explosion of life over 400 million years ago: Study
Nov 26, 2017, 05:16 PM ISTA recent study has suggested that a spike in levels of oxygen may have caused a three-fold increase in biodiversity during between 445 and 485 million years ago.
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Mysterious loud booms heard across the globe leave experts clueless
Nov 24, 2017, 06:12 PM ISTMysterious booming sounds heard in differed parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, has left people as well as the NASA baffled.
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Strong earthquakes may increase in 2018, predict US scientists
Nov 20, 2017, 05:47 PM ISTIf a prediction by two US scientists were true then the world could see an increase in the number of strong earthquakes in 2018 and the next few years, a media report said.
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Space delivery: Astronauts get ice cream, make-own pizzas
Nov 14, 2017, 04:45 PM ISTBesides equipment and experiments, the Orbital ATK capsule holds chocolate and vanilla ice cream for the six station astronauts, as well as make-your-own flatbread pizzas.
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Scientists discover 260 million-year-old Antarctica forest that existed long before dinosaurs
Nov 13, 2017, 10:26 PM ISTThe scientists uncovered fossil fragments of 13 long deceased trees dating from the end of the Permian Period, some 260 million years ago.
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Over 1.3 lakh Indians ‘book ticket’ to travel to Mars in 2018
Nov 12, 2017, 10:13 PM ISTMore than 1.3 lakh Indian space enthusiasts have submitted their names to NASA to be carried to Mars onboard the US space agency’s mission to the red planet next year.
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Dinosaur-era shark with 300 teeth, dating back 80 million years, caught off the coast of Portugal
Nov 11, 2017, 08:47 PM ISTIn an incredible finding, scientists have caught the rare frilled shark, which dates back 80 million years to the ‘age of the dinosaurs’ and is one of the oldest living species today.
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Watch: Russian boy claims he lived on Mars before rebirth on Earth, says he’s on a ‘special mission’
Nov 07, 2017, 09:05 PM ISTIn a claim that has baffled scientists across the world, a Russian youth says that he lived on Mars before he was reborn on Earth.
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In astonishing discovery, NASA finds 20 planets besides Earth that may hold life
Nov 01, 2017, 05:34 PM ISTScientists have found that there are 20 new planets, others than the Earth, that are orbiting a sun and could support life.
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Oldest recorded solar eclipse: 3200-year-old Biblical record that may rewrite history and give new dates for Egypt's pharaohs
Oct 30, 2017, 04:48 PM ISTIn a surprising finding, scientists have got hold, of what they claim, the exact date of the oldest solar eclipse ever recorded.
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SpaceX to launch 13th cargo mission to space station using refurbished Dragon Capsule
Oct 30, 2017, 04:02 PM ISTNASA is planning to launch the SpaceX’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this December, using another refurbished Dragon Capsule.
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NASA gets Halloween-ready with its new playlist of creepy space sounds
Oct 30, 2017, 04:29 PM ISTGetting ready for the Halloween festival, the NASA has released a collection of sounds of space to increase the spookiness of the celebrations.
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Stephen Hawking's PhD thesis goes online, crashes Cambridge University website
Oct 25, 2017, 08:59 AM ISTProfessor Hawking's 1966 thesis "Properties of expanding universes" was made freely available for the first time on the publications section of university's website at 12.01 a.m. on Monday.
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Now, take a tour to local planets and moons of the solar system with Google Maps
Oct 17, 2017, 03:58 PM ISTContinuing with its innovations, Google has updated the Google Maps which comes as a treat for the stargazers.
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When coal formation almost turned Earth into a giant ball of ice
Oct 10, 2017, 09:31 PM ISTWhile burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global glaciation or a snowball like state
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SpaceX launches its 14th orbital rocket of 2017 carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites
Oct 09, 2017, 08:01 PM ISTSpaceX launched its 14th Falcon 9 rocket of 2017 today, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket carried 10 satellites for Iridium Communications
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October 15 beginning of the end of world, Earth to witness seven years of natural calamities, claim conspiracy theorists
Oct 09, 2017, 07:37 PM ISTDavid Meade predicts nuclear attacks and hurricanes will destroy the planet - triggered by a mysterious Planet X.
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Fossil of Thailand's biggest ever dinosaur found
Oct 06, 2017, 11:24 AM ISTA fossil of a dinosaur, believed to be the biggest ever found in Thailand, has been discovered in the country's northeastern regiony
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Astronomers spot elusive giant black hole couples
Oct 04, 2017, 11:54 PM ISTAstronomers including one of Indian-origin have identified five pairs of supermassive black holes, each containing millions of times the mass of the Sun, in the centres of galaxies