Lunar Crater named after Arctic explorer Matthew Henson.

The International Astronomical Union has named a crater at the Moon’s south pole after the Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, a Black man who in 1909 was one of the first people to stand at the very top of the world. The proposal to name the crater after Henson was put forward…

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Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago.

The footprints, the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas, show that people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age. A new discovery offers definitive evidence that humans were in North America far earlier than archaeologists previously thought — a whoppin…

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NASA selects landing site for Moon rover mission.

NASA is sending a robotic rover to look for water-ice near a crater at the Moon's South Pole. In 2023, the golf cart-sized vehicle will land near the western edge of Nobile Crater, a 73km-wide depression that is almost permanently in shadow. The Viper mission will support…

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2021 Changemaker Award

Fairooz Faizah Beether of Bangladesh has been chosen for the 2021 Changemaker Award for her work promoting good health and well-being by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Award celebrates an individual who has inspired change using personal experience or from a posit…

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WHO issues new Global Air Quality Guidelines.

New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at even lower concentrations than previously understood. The guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect the health of populations, by reduci…

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China launches Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft.

China on Monday (20th) launched a cargo spacecraft for its under-construction space station, the country’s space agency said. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said in a statement that Long March 7 Y4 rocket carried the Tianzhou-3 cargo spacecraft into space from the Wenc…

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Chinese astronauts land after historic 3-month mission to new space station.

A spacecraft carrying Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo touched down safely in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia on September 17 2021, at 1:34 a.m. EDT (0534 GMT; 1:34 p.m. Beijing time) bringing the historic Shenzhou 12 mission to an end. Shenzhou 12 launched on June…

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Fossil tracks may reveal an ancient elephant nursery.

Fossilized footprints found on a beach in southern Spain betray what may have been a nursery for an extinct species of elephant. The track-rich coastal site, which scientists have dubbed the Matalascañas Trampled Surface, is typically covered by 1½ meters of sand, says Clive…

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Ozone hole over the South Pole is now bigger than Antarctica.

The hole in the ozone that forms every year over the South Pole is now larger than Antarctica, scientists from the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said. The ozone depletes and forms a hole over the Antarctic in the Southern Hemisphere's spri…

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Home computer pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81.

The home computing world is mourning the loss of pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair, who has died at the age of 81. The entrepreneur’s company launched the ZX models in a decade where personal computer use began to boom in the UK, with Sinclair becoming the first company in the worl…

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New species of Jurassic-age Hybodont Shark discovered from Rajasthan's Jaisalmer.

Teeth of new species of Hybodont Shark of Jurassic age have been reported for the first time from Jaisalmer by a team of officers from the Geological Survey of India (GSI). This discovery marks an important milestone in the study of Jurassic vertebrate fossils in the Jaisalm…

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SpaceX launches four people to orbit in company's first-ever tourism mission.

A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit Wednesday (15th) evening, carrying four people — none of whom are professional astronauts — and kicking off the first-ever mission to Earth's orbit crewed entirely by tourists. The launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

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SpaceX set to launch first all-civilian crew into orbit.

Four private citizens are set to launch into orbit Wednesday in what will be the first mission to space without any professional astronauts on board. The all-civilian crew will ride to space aboard a rocket and capsule developed by SpaceX. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, i…

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Australia to support India's Gaganyaan mission.

Australia will support India's Gaganyaan mission by tracking it through Cocos Keeling island. Speaking at the International Space Conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Deputy Head Australia Space Agency Anthony Murfett said that. The space ag…

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Yahoo Appoints Jim Lanzone as its new CEO.

The web service provider, Yahoo has named Jim Lanzone as its new chief executive officer (CEO). He was currently serving as the CEO of the Dating app Tinder. Jim Lanzone will replace Guru Gowrappan, to the post of Yahoo CEO. As for Tinder, Renate Nyborg has been appointed a…

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SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit.

Yet another billionaire entrepreneur is set to ride into space this week, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocketship as part of an astro-tourist team poised to make history as the first all-civilian crew launched into Earth orbit. Jared Isaacman, the American founder…

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Prof. Malik Peiris wins top award under 2021 Future Science Prize.

Professor Malik Peiris and Professor Yuen Kwok-yung from the University of Hong Kong have won the ‘Life Science Prize’ under the 2021 Future Science Prize. It was announced in Beijing that the two University of Hong Kong medical experts, Peiris, the Chair Professor of Virolo…

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Measurement of magnetic field offers rare peek into inner workings of the Sun.

Indian scientists, along with international collaborators, have measured the magnetic field of an eruption from the Sun’s atmosphere offering a rare peek to the interior of the Sun.  Observing the weak thermal radio emission associated with the erupted plasma for the first t…

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China launches new Earth Observation Satellite.

China launched the Gaofen 5 (02) hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on Tuesday (07th) as the country races towards carrying out 40 missions in 2021. A Long March 4C rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 11:01 p.m. EDT Sept. 6 (0301 GMT or 11:01 a.m…

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Gigantic 'shark-toothed' dinosaur discovered in Uzbekistan.

About 90 million years ago, a gigantic apex predator — a meat-eating dinosaur with serrated shark-like teeth — prowled what is now Uzbekistan, according to a new study of the behemoth's jawbone. The 26-foot-long (8 meters) beast weighed 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms), ma…

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