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The poor and elderly are most threatened by worsening climate change.

Global Warming is taking a toll on people's health: doctors

The report highlighted health problems stemming from more frequent heat waves, disease spread by insects, air pollution...

1 Nov 2017 11:37 AM IST

An Orbital ATK Minotaur C rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 2:37 PM on 31st October.

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10 commercial satellites launched from California

The satellites are designed to gather medium- and high-resolution multispectral images of Earth.

1 Nov 2017 11:33 AM IST

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Winters on Mars shaping red planet's landscape

In some cases, blocks sublimated so rapidly that they burrowed beneath the subsurface and were swallowed up by the sand...

31 Oct 2017 1:20 AM IST

Halloween is a festival celebrated every year on October 31. The festival marks the beginning of the Allhallowtide a time to remember dead saints, martyrs, and other loved ones.

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NASA gets into 'Halloween' mood, releases spooky soundtrack playlist

NASA has shared a SoundCloud playlist of creepy space sounds to double the celebration of 'Halloween'.

30 Oct 2017 1:12 PM IST

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Pope Francis rings up astronauts in the space station

Pope Francis' call to the space station was the second of its kind, had conversation on peaceful topics..

30 Oct 2017 9:54 AM IST

A large population of already vulnerable monarch butterflies are stuck in Canada. (Photo credit: AP)

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Misplaced monarchs: Clusters of butterflies stuck up north

Around thousands of the butterflies are stranded because of the unusually warm weather and strong winds that have kept...

27 Oct 2017 11:24 AM IST

The skull was discovered near the town of Aitape, about 7 miles (12 km) inland from Papua New Guineas northern coast. (Photo credit: Reuters)

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Skull called oldest-known tsunami victim found in Papua New Guinea

Scientists say sediments in which bone found bear hallmarks of the giant wave. Skull fragment from coastal site dates...

27 Oct 2017 9:40 AM IST

No fossilized bones were found, but the footprints alone showed a lot about the animal. The scientists concluded it was a large theropod -- the two-legged carnivorous dinosaur group

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Fossil footprints reveal existence of big early dinosaur predator

Scientists described the footprints from an ancient river bank in Lesotho and estimated that the dinosaur was about 30...

27 Oct 2017 9:11 AM IST

A genome editing technique called CRISPR has revolutionized scientific research. (Photo credit: AP)

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Scientists working toward reversible kind of gene editing

Researchers are using CRISPR to develop malaria-resistant mosquitoes and to develop treatments that one day may help...

27 Oct 2017 8:52 AM IST

Researchers at the University of Colorado have found more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 was caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground. (Photo credit: AP)

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Paul Weitz, commander of 1st flight of space shuttle Challenger dies...

Weitz is survived by his two children, Matthew and Cynthia.

25 Oct 2017 9:34 AM IST

$Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, \Properties of Expanding Universes\ explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientists career.$ Science

How to download Stephen Hawking's Ph.D which crashed the website after...

The university says the thesis was already the most-requested item in its online repository.

24 Oct 2017 9:05 AM IST