NASA launches Artemis 1 moon mission on its most powerful rocket ever.

The United States space agency NASA has launched its Artemis-1 mission from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida on 16 Wednesday. About eight minutes after launch, the core stage’s engines cut off and the core stage separated from the rest of the rocket. After this, the Orion spac…

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A clam presumed extinct for 40,000 years has been found alive.

Known as Cymatioa cooki, the clam had only ever been found as a fossil, and scientists presumed that the species had been extinct for more than 40,000 years. Then, while scouring tide pools for sea slugs off the coast of California in 2018, marine ecologist Jeff Goddard spo…

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Sperm Counts are dropping across the world, and the decline is accelerating.

Sperm count among men worldwide is falling at an accelerated rate after halving over the last 40 years, a large new study said, calling for action to stop the decline. The study, led by Israeli epidemiologist Hagai Levine, updates 2017 research which had come under scrutiny …

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100 years after unearthing King Tut's tomb, archaeologists make new discoveries.

A century after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, archaeologists are still unearthing more artifacts — and controversies. The unearthing of King Tut's tomb on Nov. 4, 1922 is considered one of the greatest finds in modern history. But archaeologists remained …

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Unexpected solar flare smashes into Earth.

A surprise solar flare has burst from an area of dense magnetism on the sun’s surface, causing a temporary radio blackout in parts of Australia and all of New Zealand.  The M5-class, medium-strength solar flare was recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory as it erup…

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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb

It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear. Believed to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet, the inscription on …

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Google increases free storage for 'Workspace Individual' from 15GB to 1TB.

Google has made its Workspace productivity programme available to everyone for free last year. In order to entice you into paying the business money, Workspace Individual, an improved version of the suite, was released at the same time. Workspace Individual is now a little …

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Astronomers detect huge ‘planet killer’ asteroid that could one day threaten Earth.

Astronomers have detected a "planet killer" asteroid which crosses Earth’s orbit and could slowly move closer and closer to us centuries from now. With a diameter of about 1.1 km to 2.3 km, the asteroid, named 2022 AP7, is the largest object potentially hazardous t…

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Twitter verified badge to cost $8 a month.

Elon Musk announced that the Twitter Blue Tick service will come with a monthly cost of USD 8. Twitter Blue Tick service includes the coveted verified badge. This is a result to boost subscriptions and make social media networks less dependent on ads. The verified badge, whi…

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NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars.

NASA’s InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last Dec. 24, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake: a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos. What’s more, the meteoroid excavated bou…

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Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter.

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has been finalized, giving the world's richest man control over one of the most significant social media platforms and raising expectations for significant changes to content moderation. The takeover, which came after months of lega…

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Secret communication of sea animals discovered.

A scientist has found that 53 sea creatures previously thought to be silent can actually communicate. The creatures were sending message all along, but humans had never thought to listen to them, Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen suggests. He used microphones to record the species, inc…

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Two new mosquito species identified within Sri Lanka.

The Department of Entomology of Medical Research Institute of Sri Lanka (MRI) has identified two new mosquito species within Sri Lanka, increasing its bio-diversity. The two newly identified mosquito species namely Culex sintellus and Culex niyainfula have reportedly been fo…

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'Rare' Roman mosaic found in Rastan, Syria

A 1,600-year-old virtually intact Roman-era mosaic has been discovered in central Syria. The mosaic, measuring 20 x 6m (65.5 x 20ft), was found under a building in Rastan near Homs, which was held by rebels in the civil war until 2018. Showing mythical scenes including the Tr…

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Pfizer buys COVID diagnostic app developed by Aussie-based Sri Lankan professor.

A Brisbane-based company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been purchased by Pfizer for nearly $180 million. ResApp Health Limited uses diagnostic technology developed by Associate P…

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Ancient DNA from 1 Million years ago discovered in Antarctica.

As we're a species with ever-shrinking attention spans, it can be difficult to comprehend just how long life has been around on Earth. However, try to get your head around this one: Scientists have dug up fragments of DNA dating back 1 million years ago. Found beneath th…

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NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space.

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time …

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One of world's most active volcanoes erupts again.

A volcano on Italy's Stromboli island has erupted, releasing a huge plume of smoke into the air and lava into the sea. Stromboli is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has been regularly erupting since 1932. Source: www.bbc.com

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The US Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier just left port.

On October 4, the USS Gerald R. Ford departed Norfolk, Virginia, for a trip across the Atlantic. The ship is the first of the Ford-class aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered hangars-and-runways that serve as the centerpiece of the US Navy’s fleets and, as such, project Americ…

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Dino-killing asteroid caused global tsunami.

Oceanographers at the University of Michigan said on October 4, 2022, that the asteroid that struck Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs – 66 million years ago – also triggered a vast, global tsunami. Their study is based on a combination of computer modeling and geological evi…

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