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Himalayan glaciers could lose 80% of their volume if global warming isn’t controlled, study finds
June 20, 2023 17:18 IST
Ice and snow in the Hindu Kush Himalayan ranges is an important source of water for those rivers, which flow through 16 countries in Asia and provide fresh water to 240 million people in the mountains and another 1.65 billion downstream.
This is Calico, a tiny robot that can be your dance instructor, workout tracker, and more
June 20, 2023 19:07 IST
Calico is a tiny robot that can zip around the user's body using a special track sewn into their clothing.
Missing ‘submarine’: What is a submersible and how is ‘Titan’ different from a submarine?
June 20, 2023 19:07 IST
Here is everything you need to know about the Titan submersible vessel that went missing while its five-member crew were on an expedition to explore the wrecks of the Titanic.
This solar-powered reactor can turn air into fuel, plastic into skincare ingredient
June 20, 2023 19:04 IST
Cambridge researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor that uses plastic waste to convert carbon dioxide into a useful sustainable fuel.
Indonesia, SpaceX launch satellite to boost internet connectivity
June 20, 2023 12:12 IST
Roughly two-thirds of Indonesia's 280 million population already use the internet, but connectivity is limited in far-flung, underdeveloped eastern islands of the Southeast Asian country.
NASA to help private companies, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, build space facilities
June 20, 2023 12:06 IST
NASA is going to provide seven private US companies with expertise, technologies and other support to build space stations, launch systems and space manufacturing capabilities.
A day on Mars: NASA’s Curiosity rover sends a beautiful postcard from Red Planet
June 17, 2023 08:30 IST
NASA shared a "postcard image" of the red planet taken by the Curiosity Mars rover. Here is everything you need to know about what is in the image and how it was taken.
5 planets to align in the sky: How to spot them
June 18, 2023 08:59 IST
5 planets are set to align in the sky early on June 17. While two of them would be especially difficult to spot, here is how you can look for them before the sun rises on Saturday.
Microsoft notches record high valuation of nearly $2.6 trillion
June 16, 2023 12:28 IST
Last month, Microsoft began rolling out a host of AI upgrades, including ChatGPT, to Azure cloud services as well as its search engine Bing - in a move that seeks to challenge the dominance of Alphabet Inc's Google.
Cyclone Biparjoy in pictures & video from outer space taken by UAE astronaut
June 16, 2023 11:10 IST
View images and videos of the Cyclone Biparjoy taken from space by UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi.
Light pollution could confuse an important ‘natural recycler’ species
June 16, 2023 11:04 IST
Diffused light pollution from cities and towns could confuse sea slaters—a species of woodlouse—and interfere with their ability to camouflage themselves.
This hellish exoplanet is hot enough for molten iron rain, rock vapour
June 16, 2023 10:56 IST
WASP-76b is a planet that orbits twelve times closer to its host star than Mercury orbits the Sun.
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus harbors essential elements for life
June 15, 2023 12:19 IST
The discovery was based on data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first to orbit Saturn, during its 13-year landmark exploration of the gaseous giant planet, its rings and its moons from 2004 to 2017.
World Economic Forum releases guidelines for tackling growing space debris problem
June 15, 2023 10:08 IST
The World Economic Forum and the European Space Agency jointly released a set of guidelines aimed at mitigating the growing space debris problem.
NASA and Boeing unveil experimental X-66A aircraft to test sustainable design, tech
June 15, 2023 10:08 IST
NASA and Boeing's new experimental flight design has been designated X-66A by the US Air Force.
Rare extremely warped image of exploding star captured by astronomers
June 15, 2023 10:08 IST
Astronomers used the Zwicky Transient Facility in California to capture an image of a supernova, or exploding star, extremely warped by a foreground galaxy.
Webb telescope shows how the universe became transparent
June 19, 2023 17:14 IST
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers pinpoint how the gases in between stars and galaxies went from opaque to transparent, clearing up views.
Chicken before the egg: Early birds, reptiles may have given birth to young, study suggests
June 16, 2023 11:25 IST
A new study suggests that the earliest reptiles and birds carried their young within their bodies for extended period of time.
Hubble captures a jellyfish galaxy 700 million light-years away
June 15, 2023 10:08 IST
NASA shared an image of a "jellyfish galaxy" moving thorugh a galactic cluster as the intra-cluster medium stripped its gas away, forming tendrils.
NASA concerned about delays to Artemis 3 after issues with SpaceX Starship: Report
June 15, 2023 10:08 IST
NASA has aired concerns that the Artemis 3 mission, which would put humans on the Moon for the first time since 1972, could be delayed due to issues with SpaceX's Starship.
ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-3 by mid-July: Somanath
June 10, 2023 09:37 IST
The space agency will again try to land a rover on the moon after the failed attempt of 2019
Scientists document how space travel messes with the human brain
June 10, 2023 09:36 IST
The absence of Earth's gravity modifies the brain.
Brightest-ever space explosion might owe its strength to unique jet structure, finds study
June 10, 2023 09:36 IST
Scientists unravel the mystery behind the brightest known explosion since the Big Bang - GRB 221009A.
‘Most painful insect sting’ from Bullet ants uses neurotoxins in a way never seen before
June 10, 2023 09:36 IST
The venom of the bullet ant and the green ant works using a neurotoxin that affects nerve cells, prolonging and intensifying pain.
Scientists discover a virgin birth in a crocodile
June 10, 2023 09:36 IST
A team of researchers report that the baby crocodile was a parthenogen — the product of a virgin birth, containing only genetic material from its mother.
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