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Smartphone app that could help screen neurological disease at home
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Smartphone app that could help screen neurological disease at home

New York, May 1: A team of researchers has developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer's disease, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other neurological diseases and disorders, by recording closeups of their eyes. The app uses a near-infrared...
2 largest marsquakes recorded on Red Planets far side
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2 largest marsquakes recorded on Red Planet's far side

London, April 23: A seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded two largest seismic events on the Red Planet to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquakes. The pair are the first recorded events to occur on the planet's far side from the lander and are five times...
Scientists urge NASA to probe Uranus, search for life on Saturns moon
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Scientists urge NASA to probe Uranus, search for life on Saturn's moon

Washington, April 22: A team of scientists has urged NASA to probe the ice giant Uranus and look for life on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, on priority in the coming decade. In a report, the team at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), recommended NASA to focus on...
Tesla robots will be worth more than car business: Musk
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Tesla robots will be worth more than car business: Musk

San Francisco, April 22: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has predicted that robots will soon be worth more than the car business and even the FSD (full-self-driving) programme. At Tesla's Texas giga factory opening earlier this month, Musk had said that a new wave of products, like the Optimus robot, will be...
Microplastics in blue mussels signal plastics in human food supplies
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Microplastics in blue mussels signal plastics in human food supplies

Sydney, April 20: Australian researchers have found microplastics in variable concentrations in blue mussels and water within the intertidal zone at some of the country's most popular and more remote beaches.This means microplastics are now finding their way into human food supplies - including...
Sun spews intense solar flare, sparks radio blackout in Asia, Australia
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Sun spews intense solar flare, sparks radio blackout in Asia, Australia

New Delhi, April 18: The Sun has unleashed an intense solar flare, sparking radio blackouts in several parts of Asia and Australia.According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the solar flare peaked late on April 17 at 3.34 GMT (9.04 IST) and was followed minutes later by a massive...
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope confirms largest comet nucleus ever seen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirms largest comet nucleus ever seen

Los Angeles, April 13: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the largest comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers, the agency has said. The estimated diameter of the largest icy comet nucleus is approximately 80 miles (128 km), making it larger than the state of Rhode Island, NASA said on...
Elon Musk no longer joining Twitters board of directors
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Elon Musk no longer joining Twitter's board of directors

San Francisco, Apr 11: Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously announced. The tempestuous billionaire remains Twitter's largest shareholder. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted the news, which followed a weekend of Musk tweets suggesting possible changes to...
ISRO to check the objects that fell from skies in Maha village
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ISRO to check the objects that fell from skies in Maha village

Chennai, April 6: Officials of the Indian space agency will visit Maharashtra to look into the objects that fell from the skies in Pawanpur village in Chandrapur district.According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), it has received formal communication from the District Magistrate and...
Another electric scooter catches fire in India, users furious
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Another electric scooter catches fire in India, users furious

Chennai/New Delhi, March 30: After Ola Electric and Okinawa e-scooters caught fire and raised alarms in government circles, another electric scooter of Hyderabad-based Pure EV has reportedly caught fire in Tamil Nadu.The EV fire incident, the third in a row, occurred near Mathura Toll Plaza in...
Astronomers find no signs of Planet Nine
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Astronomers find no signs of Planet Nine

New York, March 21: A team of astronomers who scammed about 87 per cent of the southern sky have found no trace of Planet Nine in our solar system yet.Pluto, discovered in January 1930, was earlier known as the Planet Nine. However in 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet....
Indian students will be able to search for asteroids soon to foray in space stream
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Indian students will be able to search for asteroids soon to foray in space...

Jaipur, March 17: Indian students will get an opportunity to join the ambitious asteroid search campaign soon as the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) has extended an invitation to the Rajasthan government to explore opportunities for setting up a joint India-Brazil...
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