Virgin Galactic will organize private passenger trips to the space station for NASA
Richard Branson’s space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, will start coordinating private astronaut trips to the International Space Station for NASA — a new partnership aimed at increasing commercial use of the space agency’s orbi..
Moon may be much more metallic
The Moon might be more metallic than researchers thought. And that comes from no less a source than NASA. The scientists who operate the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mi..
The South Pole is warming at three times the global average, study says
The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 years, a new study has found. That could have huge implications for the melting of Antarctic ice sheets, marine ..
Warming temperatures threaten hundreds of fish species the world relies on, study finds
As the planet's oceans and rivers warm, increased heat could pose a grave threat to the fish populations the world depends on by the end of this century. That's th..
You Can Spot These 5 Planets Along With the Moon on Sunday Without a Telescope
The universe in itself is perhaps the most magical place. On Sunday, July 19, 2020, one can spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn along with the moon in the sky. What is more in..
Rare Comet Neowise to be visible in India for 20 days | Check time and dates
A newly discovered comet C/2020 F3, also known as Neowise, which has been spotted from several parts of the world, will now be visible in India. Comet Neowise will..
Covid-19 lockdown cleared up the air, but harmful ozone levels increased. Here’s why
Around the world, Covid-19 lockdowns cleaned up the air as a plethora of economic activities were brought to a standstill. However, new research shows that while NO2 and PM2.5 levels p..
Explained: What are air shields that may protect passengers from infection on board flights?
A Seattle-based company Teague has come up with a device called an air shield that can fit on to existing air vents inside an airplane cabin, thereby reducing the risk of COVID-19 spreading inflight by regulating the air flows. As lockdowns are being lifted, international air travel ..
Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona
While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying..
How Much Color Do We Really See?
An interesting new study from researchers Michael A. Cohen and Jordan Rubenstein suggests that our vision contains less color information than you’d think. Cohen and Rubenstein found that a large proportion of people failed to spot that an image contained major color distortions in their periphe..
The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon
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Medical devices you ingest and forget
Medical devices can be inserted into the human gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose or monitor a range of disorders. The problem is you usually have to ge..
Scientist Shares How to Grow 5 Vegetables in a Single Pot & Save 90% Water
The luscious garden, that belongs to Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar, thrives with 50 types of natural fruits, flowers, and vegetables grown through multi-layer farming on his 50 square feet rooftop garden. It’s..
How to Kill Mosquitoes: What Works and What Doesn't
While you might fantasize about living in a mosquito-free world, eradicating them would actually be disastrous for the environment. Adult mosquitoes are food for other insects, birds, and bats, ..
Glancing around the courtyard of the walled-off National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, you might think this place is filled with them. Two dozen patients chew and pick at their lunches of yellow chicken legs and bread rolls, while others slump listlessly around a courtyard. So..
Is Time Real? What does this even mean?
Indeed, time could be defined as an emergent quantity of matter structure due to causiation (radiation at speed c) deviating from straight effective line.Not surprisingly that definition could be the same for gravitating/inertial mass/energy.I ..
The idea that the Earth itself is like a single evolving ‘organism’ was developed in the mid-1970s by the independent English scientist and inventor James Lovelock and the American biologist Lynn Margulis. They dubbed it the ‘..
These Are 7 of The Strangest Experiments Humans Have Ever Done in Space
The way things behave in microgravity may seem obvious to us now, after humans have been venturing into space for over 50 years. But we haven't always..
Anesthesia Works on Plants Too, and We Donât Know Why
Humans have been using anesthesia for almost 175 years, but we’re still not sure how it works. Researchers have come at the problem from dozens of directions and posited many hypotheses, but no one has yet explained the mechanism. Enter the botanists. Who else would think of sealing a Venus fl..
Scientists Use Iron to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel
A newly developed chemical process could convert carbon dioxide into jet fuel, reports Maria Temming for . Carbon dioxide (CO2) is of course the same greenhouse gas ..