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NASA satellite phones home to confirm orbit

Hindu Business Line

Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) Spacecraft Configuration. OCSD differs from other space-based laser communication systems because the laser is hard-mounted to the spacecraft body, and the orientation of the CubeSat controls ...

 

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Pebbles on Mars Likely Traveled Tens of Miles Down a Riverbed, Penn Study Finds

Penn: Office of University Communications

While new evidence suggests that Mars may harbor a tiny amount of liquid water, it exists today as a largely cold and arid planet.

 

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Melting of Antarctic ice shelves may double by 2050

Times of India

WASHINGTON: The surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves may double by 2050 and surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the present rate, a new study has warned.

 

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Three-day Jammu and Kashmir Science Congress begins at University of Kashmir

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To discuss social, scientific and economic dimensions of climate change, the 11th Jammu and Kashmir Science Congress was inaugurated here at the University of Kashmir on Monday.

 

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Land sharks wipe out 15 hectares of ecologically critical Yamuna floodplains

India Today

The destruction has happened in the Yamuna's southern zone, a 4-km stretch from Okhla Barrage till Jaitpur village, dangerously reducing the width of a river that meets Delhi's 70 per cent drinking water needs.

 

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Giant dinosaur had tennis ball-sized brain

Livemint

London: A giant dinosaur - as long as a double decker bus - that lived about 72 million years ago had a brain just 6.3cm big, say UK scientists who have described one of the most complete sauropod dinosaur braincases ever found in Europe.

 

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Gigantic Dinosaur with tiny Brain

Odisha Samaya

Gigantic Dinosaur with tiny Brain UK scientists have revealed that a giant dinosaur that lived about 72 million years ago had a brain just 6.3cm big.

 

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Astrosat captures its first image of Crab Nebula

Hindustan Times

India's first space observatory Astrosat has started capturing images of the outer space, the first of which was released on Twitter by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday.

 

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Astrosat sends back home images of Crab Nebula

News Today

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has releaesd on Twitter the first images...... Read More >> · Kajol and I are the worst best dancers in the world: SRK.

 

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Climate change is having devastating effect on global health, U of T profs ...

News@UofT

The hottest summer on record, the drought in California, wildfires in British Columbia and even the refugee crisis in Syria - all are consequences of global warming, said experts gathered at the University of Toronto last week.