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  Most buildings designed for earlier climate – here’s what will happen as global warming escalates

  Science | July 03, 2021 9:53 IST

  Climate change is indiscriminate. Rich nations have the financial clout to adapt more rapidly and mitigate the impacts, but they can’t stop them at the border.

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  Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson announces trip to space, ahead of Jeff Bezos

  Science | July 02, 2021 6:43 IST

  Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days.

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  Scientists need to rethink which genes linked to ageing process: Study

  Science | June 26, 2021 10:01 IST

  Researchers at the National Institutes of Health fed antibiotics to fruit flies to better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease.

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  NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 8th flight on Mars

  Science | June 23, 2021 10:46 IST

  The Mars helicopter was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters.

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  NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research

  Science | June 22, 2021 7:22 IST

  When astronauts are in low gravity their body's relationship with microbes changes, said University of Hawaii professor Margaret McFall-Ngai, who Foster studied under in the 1990s.

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  Astronauts finish installing first solar arrays outside International Space Station

  Science | June 21, 2021 12:44 IST

  NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet in their eighth spacewalk of the year outside the ISS deployed the new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the far end of the left (port) side of the station's backbone truss structure (P6).

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  Chinese researchers find batch of new coronaviruses in bats: Report

  Science | June 13, 2021 8:21 IST

  Chinese researchers said they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats.

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  AI predicts how patients with viral infection will fare

  Science | June 12, 2021 14:14 IST

  A team of researchers has used an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data to look for shared patterns in patients with past pandemic viral infections.

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  Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 – here’s why that’s exciting

  Science | June 06, 2021 10:20 IST

  In the latest announcement from Nasa’s solar system exploration program, two missions have been given the go-ahead – and they’re both bound for Venus.

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  China to send 3 male astronauts to its space station in June

  Science | May 31, 2021 8:26 IST

  A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China's new space station, according to a space official who was the country's first astronaut in orbit.

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  Chinese cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docks with orbital station

  Science | May 30, 2021 8:07 IST

  Automated spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docked with China's new space station carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew.

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  New NASA Earth System Observatory to help address, mitigate climate change

  Science | May 25, 2021 7:10 IST

  NASA will design a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes, the US space agency on said Monday.

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  China lands on Mars in latest advance for its space program

  Science | 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 spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

  Science | 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

  Science | 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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  Organ transplant recipients vulnerable to COVID-19 even after vaccination: Study

  India | May 10, 2021 13:16 IST

  The latest study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), evaluated this immunogenic response following the second dose of either of the two mRNA vaccines -- made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech -- for 658 transplant recipients, none of whom had a prior diagnosis of COVID-19.

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

  Science | 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

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

  Science | 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

  Science | May 08, 2021 8:57 IST

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