Category: Science Tech
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Microsoft Pledges to Erase Its Carbon Footprint, Past and Future, in Climate Push
Microsoft Pledges to Erase Its Carbon Footprint, Past and Future, in Climate Push: Microsoft on Thursday set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history. The focus on clearing carbon from the atmosphere sets Microsoft’s climate goals apart…
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World’s First ‘Living Robots’ Created by Scientists, Using Stem Cells
World’s First ‘Living Robots’ Created by Scientists, Using Stem Cells: A group of scientists have succeeded in using living cells from frog embryos into other new life-forms, which they are referring to as a ‘living, programmable organisms’. The newly constructed self-healing creature are called ‘xenobots’ and can approach towards targets. They may also help in…
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NASA Eyeing Moon Hosts First Public Astronaut Graduation Ceremony
NASA, Eyeing Moon, Hosts First Public Astronaut Graduation Ceremony: NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America’s return to the Moon and eventual journey to Mars. After completing more than two years of basic…
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Galactic Gamma-Ray Source Map Reveals Birthplaces of High-Energy Particles: Study
Galactic Gamma-Ray Source Map Reveals Birthplaces of High-Energy Particles: Study: In a new catalogue compiled by researchers, nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays have been identified. All nine sources produce gamma rays with energies over 56 trillion electron volts (TeV) — more than eight times the energy of the most powerful proton beams produced…
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NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone
NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone: Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history — in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star’s habitable-zone — the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone. In…
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7 Billion Years: Oldest Solid Material on Earth Found Inside a Meteorite, Predates Solar System
7 Billion Years: Oldest Solid Material on Earth Found Inside a Meteorite, Predates Solar System: A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said on Monday. The oldest…
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ISRO GSAT-30 Satellite to Be Launched on Friday, Aboard Ariane 5 Rocket
ISRO GSAT-30 Satellite to Be Launched on Friday, Aboard Ariane 5 Rocket: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a communication satellite GSAT-30 onboard the Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana on January 17. The 3,357kg satellite is slated to blast off from the Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located…
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Stars Need a Partner to Create Universe’s Brightest Explosions, Study Claims
Stars Need a Partner to Create Universe’s Brightest Explosions, Study Claims: A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars. Thousands of binary star systems were modelled for the study and…