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NASA’s Perseverance rover has bagged its first hint of ancient microbes on Mars. “We’re not able to say that this is a sign of life,” says Perseverance deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in…

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, built to detect particles…

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This summer is going to be one of the most exciting ones for the astronomers and space scientists, because of the nova, i.e. explosion of a star in the Coronae Borealis. Coronae Borealis is a Latin phrase that translates to "northern crown"…

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To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium.  A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or…

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced the creation of a ₹1,000 crore venture capital fund in the Budget 2024 aimed at expanding the space economy “fivefold over the next decade”. This move follows the government's…

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Witwatersrand HT Image Witwatersrand , Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022, 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23 per cent occurred in Africa. The…

In an unexpected twist, metal-rich nodules found on the seafloor are generating oxygen, new research suggests. This meager but steady supply of the vital gas may help support seafloor ecosystems in areas currently targeted for…

In planet formation, as in poker, you have to play the hand you’re dealt. If an Earthlike planet is the goal, the best starting hand might contain three to eight times all the water in Earth’s oceans. “There’s kind of a…

New Delhi, A rare genetic mutation has been found to cause "uninterrupted" flow of sodium into brain cells, leading to epilepsy in infants, according to a study. HT Image The finding can help in treating epilepsy patients by…

New Delhi, Limited demand and pricing constraints are among key challenges that impede the commercialisation of space technologies in the country, according to the Economic Survey 2023-24 HT Image The survey, tabled in Parliament by…

Reading and Robert Barton, Durham University HT Image Reading, Scientists have long believed that, generally speaking, the bigger an animal is, the bigger its brain. But our recent study challenges the nature of that linear view and…

BLEEDING THROUGH a tampon or pad never makes for a good time. The risk of leaks is annoying and stressful for all women who bleed, and especially for the 20% to 30% whose menstrual flow is so heavy that they sometimes must change their…

Science News talked to a meteorologist and Twisters’ tornado consultant to separate fact from fiction in Hollywood’s latest extreme weather thriller.

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A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising. “There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen a steady increase of…

We are too small, small in front of the whole universe which is full of nothing, and that nothing is called space. Whenever astronauts visit space, we cheer for them, eagerly wait for their visiting news, and get excited for the visuals…

For the first time, a scientist has used ocean and atmospheric data to find a milky sea, a huge expanse of luminous water, in past satellite images.

Rogue waves are freakishly large ridges of water known for rising out of the blue to ambush hapless ships and beachgoers. But a new artificial intelligence model can predict most of these surprising swells up to five minutes…

NASA announced on Wednesday the termination of the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. This decision was driven by escalating costs and repeated launch delays. The project had already consumed approximately $450…

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Each year, 2 million people in the United States suffer from rotator cuff injuries — but only 600,000 get surgical fixes. A new, python-inspired device might close that gap. Rotator cuff surgeries have failure rates between 20…

Tissue-targeting antibodies have been a key suspect in long COVID. Now, two studies show that antibodies from patients can cause symptoms in mice.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a cave on the Moon, close to the site where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago. They believe there could be hundreds more caves that could potentially house future astronauts. An…

Jul 16, 2024 10:07 AM IST An impressive video shared by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, presently onboard the ISS, shows him finding an interesting use of a nut and a bolt. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick regularly posts on…