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Science News
Facebook posts may help predict depression risk, says study
IANS | October 17, 2018 3:05 PM
Language people use in their Facebook posts can predict a future diagnosis of depression as accurately as the tools clinicians use in medical settings to screen for the disease, suggests new research.
Climate change: UNESCO World Heritage sites including Leaning Tower of Pisa threatened by erosion, flooding, says study
PTI | October 17, 2018 3:33 PMDozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean such as Venice, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Medieval City of Rhodes are under severe threat of coastal erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels within the next 100 years, a study has warned.
Parents, take note! Mother's tight work schedule may affect child's sleep
IANS | October 16, 2018 3:13 PMBig discovery! In a first, four giant planets around young star identified
PTI | October 16, 2018 2:59 PMNASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in action after suffering glitch last week
IANS | October 16, 2018 12:07 PMSpace crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails
Reuters | October 11, 2018 9:15 PMWATCH - Soyuz rocket emergency landing: Spacecraft fails mid air; crew members Nick Hague, Aleksey Ovchinin safe
Reuters | October 11, 2018 3:57 PM-
Climate change: UNESCO World Heritage sites including Leaning Tower of Pisa threatened by erosion, flooding, says study
PTI | October 17, 2018 3:33 PMDozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean such as Venice, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Medieval City of Rhodes are under severe threat of coastal erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels within the next 100 years, a study has warned.
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Facebook posts may help predict depression risk, says study
IANS | October 17, 2018 3:05 PMLanguage people use in their Facebook posts can predict a future diagnosis of depression as accurately as the tools clinicians use in medical settings to screen for the disease, suggests new research.
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Parents, take note! Mother’s tight work schedule may affect child’s sleep
IANS | October 16, 2018 3:13 PMChildren are more likely to receive fewer hours of sleep if their mothers have tight work schedules compared to those whose mothers gained flexibility, according to a new study.
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Big discovery! In a first, four giant planets around young star identified
PTI | October 16, 2018 2:59 PMScientists have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets orbiting it, the first time that so many massive worlds have been detected in such a system.
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NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in action after suffering glitch last week
IANS | October 16, 2018 12:07 PMNASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, observing the universe in high-energy light since 1999, is back in action after suffering a glitch due to the failure of the gyroscope and going into safe mode last week.
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China launches two more satellites to beef up GPS-style system
PTI | October 15, 2018 6:42 PMChina successfully launched twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on Monday to strengthen its satellite navigation network being built to rival the US’ Global Positioning System (GPS).
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NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover remains silent
PTI | October 14, 2018 5:10 PMNASA scientists are yet to hear from the Mars Opportunity Rover, which has been silent since a global dust storm enshrouded the red planet.
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World’s fastest camera to ‘freeze time’ and see ‘light in slow motion’
PTI | October 14, 2018 11:22 AMScientists have developed what may be the world’s fastest camera, which can capture 10 trillion frames per second — making it possible to ‘freeze time’ to see light in extremely slow motion.
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Tired of being stuck in traffic jams? New ‘smart traffic light’ may reduce commute time, air pollution – Check details
PTI | October 12, 2018 1:36 PMStudents at Shiv Nadar School here have developed an ‘intelligent traffic light’ system which they say may not only help reduce commute time but also lower air pollution.
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Space crew survives plunge to Earth after Russian rocket fails
Reuters | October 11, 2018 9:15 PMThe two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday.
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WATCH – Soyuz rocket emergency landing: Spacecraft fails mid air; crew members Nick Hague, Aleksey Ovchinin safe
AFP | October 11, 2018 5:32 PMThe two-man crew of a Soyuz rocket made a successful emergency landing Thursday after an engine problem on lift-off to the International Space Station, in a major setback for the beleaguered Russian space industry.
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Artificial Intelligence tool can help develop apps that drain less battery
PTI | October 11, 2018 1:53 PM“DiffProf” — the tool designed by researchers at Purdue University in the US — automatically decides for the developer whether an app feature has room for improving energy efficiency.
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NASA says Hubble Space Telescope in ‘safe mode’ after technical snag
PTI | October 9, 2018 2:34 PMThe Hubble Space Telescope has been put in ‘safe mode’ after one of its gyroscopes — used to point and steady the probe — failed, NASA said
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Japan space tourist Yusaku Maezawa says moon training ‘shouldn’t be too hard’
AFP | October 9, 2018 12:48 PMBillionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa’s training to go the moon should not be too tricky, he joked Tuesday, adding that he planned to use free time from his six-hour work day to squeeze it in.
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Scientists use cake rusk crumbs to create low-cost supercapacitors
PTI | October 9, 2018 11:58 AMScientists have used cake rusk leftovers to develop low-cost supercapacitors — a electronic component that is used to store charge and has a wide range of applications in everyday modern devices.
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IIT scientists develop material that can harvest water from fog
PTI | October 8, 2018 5:51 PMTaking a leaf from nature’s book, a team from IIT Mandi has developed a material that can harvest water from fog.
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SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering satellite SAOCOM 1A
IANS | October 8, 2018 1:56 PMElon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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NASA New Horizons spacecraft set to visit most distant object ever
PTI | October 8, 2018 1:03 PMNASA’s New Horizons probe is on course to flyby the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule this New Year, an event that will set the record for the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, scientists say.
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Global warming alert: Earth will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold by 2030, says UN IPCC report
IANS | October 8, 2018 12:55 PMThe UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday said the planet will reach the crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2030, precipitating the risk of extreme drought, wildfires, floods and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people.
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Can’t remember what you study? Write in Sans Forgetica – a font that helps you better recall what you read
PTI | October 8, 2018 12:23 PMResearchers have created a new type font, called Sans Forgetica, to help people remember more of what they read.
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Doomsday vault for ‘good’ germs
FE Bureau | October 8, 2018 1:06 AMThe decline in microbial diversity has been dramatic in the last
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NASA’s Voyager 2 probe nears interstellar space 41 years on, detects increase in cosmic rays
PTI | October 8, 2018 12:06 PMVoyager 2 probe is approaching interstellar space and has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency said.
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Parker Solar Probe completes first Venus flyby, says NASA
PTI | October 5, 2018 5:27 PMA flyby of Venus at a distance of about 2,415 kilometres was successfully completed during its first gravity assist from the planet, according to the US space agency.
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ISS astronauts return to Earth amid US-Russia tensions
AFP | October 4, 2018 8:14 PMTwo American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth on Thursday wrapping up a six-month mission at the International Space Station as tensions between Washington and Moscow threaten a rare area of cooperation.
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IBM scientists work on new architecture to help computers handle Artificial Intelligence data better
PTI | October 4, 2018 3:05 PMScientists at IBM are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial intelligence (AI).
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First known exomoon may have been discovered, says study
PTI | October 4, 2018 3:17 PMAstronomers using Hubble and Kepler space telescopes have found compelling evidence for the existence of the first known moon outside our solar system, orbiting a gas-giant planet 8,000 light-years away.
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Indians spend more time watching online videos than TV, reveals survey
IANS | October 4, 2018 12:31 PMThe findings showed that viewers in the Philippines watch the most online video at eight hours, 46 minutes each week, followed closely by India and the US at nearly 8.5 hours of viewing each week.
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