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There’s water in Universe!

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole. This black hole, called a quasar, is more than 12 billion light-years away. The discovery shows that […]

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Brad Pitt asks about Chandrayaan 2 landing

When Brad Pitt called the International Space Station (ISS) Monday to talk to American astronaut Nick Hague, the conversation turned to Chandrayaan 2 also.  “The calluses on my feet have basically gone away because I don’t walk on the bottoms of my feet,” said Hague, who is currently living on the ISS with two other […]

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First woman on Moon by 2024

Even as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, the NASA has already decided to send first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. The American space agency plans on landing the first-ever woman astronaut on Moon through its upcoming Artemis mission. Artemi is named after the twin sister of […]

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Mini Sun on Earth!

A team of researchers created their own miniature sun in the lab — complete with its own electromagnetic field and ultrahot plasma. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison constructed the 3-meter-wide (10 feet) aluminum vacuum chamber, which they dubbed “the Big Red Ball,” to re-create some of the solar physics that take place in and […]

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Name this NASA rover

NASA has invited students to name its next rover that is scheduled to land on Mars in February 2021. The US space agency has sponsored ‘Name the Rover’ challenge, winners of which will be announced on February 18. The challenge is open to K-12 students in the US who will need to submit the name […]

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Want a ride on flying saucer?

Flying saucers have been an essential element of sci-fi novels, and even of very imaginative minds who claim to have seen aliens on earth. But what if it’s true… not aliens but flying saucers? Romanian inventors Razvan Sabie and Iosif Taposu have developed ADIFO, or the All-DIrectional Flying Object, which works like a flying saucer.  […]

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Found: 3.8 million-year-old skull!

Ancient diggings are the face of our present. Literally Archaeologists have discovered a 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull in Ethiopia — a rare and remarkably complete specimen that could change what we know about the origins of one of humanity’s most famous ancestors, Lucy. The skull belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis. It dates back to a […]

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Russian robot heads to space!

A Russian robot will help astronauts in space. Russia launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia. Fedor blasted off in […]

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Back to the future… of our Universe

One of the biggest mysteries of the Universe: How was the Universe born? Don’t we all want to know how stars and planets came into existence? Well, maybe in a few years we would solve this mystery. Researchers have discovered a planet which approximately 45 million years old, orbiting one of its brightest young stars. […]

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Why is the US scared of Huawei?

Communication technology is a prized possession and no country wants to lag behind in this field. A Chinese telecom company has become a threat to other superpowers who want to win in this game. What’s HuaweiHuawei (pronounced as Wah-Way) is China’s largest information technology and telecom network company and one of the largest in the […]