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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Elevated radiation detected at former Bay Area landfill turned art park

LA Times

State-ordered environmental testing has uncovered elevated levels of cancer-causing radiation at a popular spot for hikers and dog walkers in the Bay Area, according to a new report. Over the summer, the city of Albany hired hazardous waste specialists with Cabrera Services Inc. to survey for the presence of radioactive waste at the Albany Bulb, a former municipal landfill for …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Isro to launch Shukrayaan to Venus: Why Earth's twin is an engineer's nightmare

India Today

The Indian Space Research Organisation is gearing up for one of its most challenging missions yet - Shukrayaan-1, a planned orbiter to Venus. This ambitious project aims to unravel the mysteries of Earth's enigmatic neighbour, but the harsh Venusian environment poses extreme challenges that make it a potential suicide mission for spacecraft. AN ENGINEER'S NIGHTMARE Venus's surface temperature soars to …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Indian Ocean has a giant gravity hole. We didn't know how it formed until now

India Today

Scientists have unraveled the enigma behind the Indian Ocean's massive "gravity hole," a phenomenon that has puzzled researchers for over seven decades. Researchers utilised advanced computer modeling to simulate Earth's geological processes over the past 140 million years, finally shedding light on this perplexing gravitational anomaly. Approximately 20 million years ago, these sunken fragments reached the lower mantle, displacing high-density …

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1 month ago

A mysterious signal came before the biggest Tonga eruption. It was missed

India Today

A mysterious signal came minutes before the underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted in the Pacific Ocean. A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests that the seismic wave detected 15 minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption could pave the way for early warning systems for remote oceanic volcanoes. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption on January 15, 2022, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Europa Clipper deploys boom that will confirm if Jupiter's moon has oceans

India Today

In a significant development for Nasa's Europa Clipper mission, the spacecraft has successfully deployed its magnetometer boom, marking a crucial step towards its ambitious exploration of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. The magnetometer boom, extending approximately 28 feet, houses three highly sensitive fluxgate sensors designed to measure Europa's magnetic field with unprecedented precision. More: https://t.co/m0fVGoNvz8 pic.twitter.com/BVeXtqv909 — NASA Europa Clipper November …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Europa Clipper: A 5.5-Year Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon

ABP News

NASA's Europa Clipper mission will embark on a 1.8 billion-mile journey to Jupiter's moon, Europa. The mission, scheduled to launch in 2024, will take five and a half years to reach its destination. Once in orbit, Europa Clipper will begin its series of close flybys of Europa, aiming to investigate whether the moon’s vast subsurface ocean could support life. The …

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54 years, 11 months ago

SpaceHopper: A Three-Legged Jumping Asteroid Explorer Takes Inspiration from Astronauts

CNN

SpaceHopper, a three-legged hopping asteroid explorer, demonstrates its jumping and reorientation skills during parabolic flight testing. The robot, developed by ETH Zurich students, has reached its current potential and is being used to develop a new robot, the LunarLeaper, for lunar exploration. The LunarLeaper is selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to explore a pit thought to be connected …

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3 months ago

Cabinet okays development of Venus Orbiter Mission

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the development of Venus Orbiter Mission for exploring and studying the planet. The 'Venus Orbiter Mission' to be helmed by the Department of Space will involve placing a scientific spacecraft in the orbit of Venus for better understanding of its surface and subsurface, atmospheric processes and influence of the Sun on the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

Hindustan Times

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY may be approaching its Mitchell moment. FILE - A drill rig stands at a Fervo Energy geothermal site under construction near Milford, Utah, Nov. 26, 2023. Now Fervo Energy, another scrappy Texan upstart, is applying such hydraulic fracturing—alongside other techniques borrowed from the petroleum industry—to the sleepy geothermal sector. In contrast, “enhanced geothermal systems”, like the one deployed …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Nasa to launch Europa Clipper to Jupiter's moon, employ new orbit strategy

India Today

Nasa is gearing up for the launch of its ambitious Europa Clipper mission, set to explore one of Jupiter's most intriguing moons. Europa Clipper, Nasa's largest planetary mission spacecraft to date, aims to investigate whether Europa could harbour conditions suitable for life. During these passes, Europa Clipper will use its suite of nine advanced scientific instruments to gather detailed measurements …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

INCOIS revises outlook, forecasts La Niña from September

The Hindu

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has revised the outlook for the probability of La Niña weather condition in Pacific Ocean stating that its evolution is significantly highfromSeptember with a possibility to peak in November and its influence may continue till December with a probability as high as 70%. La Niña usually aids rains in monsoon La Niña, which …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad-based INCOIS forecasts La Nina climate conditions from July to February

The Hindu

Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences has informed that the sea surface temperature anomaly signature in the eastern Pacific Ocean indicates a clear transition from El Nino to La Nina conditions. This bulletin outlines the current state of the Pacific Ocean and an outlook on the evolution of El Niño/La Nina conditions …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists recreate conditions of Saturnian moon in a lab — and it could help us find alien life

Salon

When scientists using NASA's Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life. Previous experiments never studied the organic compounds from Enceladus in hydrothermal conditions such as those believed to exist on the moon's its subsurface ocean. Previous experiments never studied the organic …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Moon's polar craters hide big water reserves, Isro study reveals

India Today

A recent study conducted by scientists from Isro's Space Applications Centre has uncovered evidence for an enhanced possibility of water ice in the polar craters of the Moon. Moreover, the study also suggests that the extent of water ice in the northern polar region is twice that in the southern polar region, providing valuable insights for mission planning and site …

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8 months ago

No more Himalayan blunders, please

Hindustan Times

The government’s insistence on ill-suited projects in the Himalayas is inexplicable, given the raft of reports — some by its own experts — that have warned of disastrous outcomes of such pursuits. After the 2013 flash floods in Uttarakhand almost completely washed away the Phata Byung project in the upper reaches of the mountains, the Centre wants to revive it …

10 months ago

Months after Uttarakhand tunnel collapse, panel flags shortcomings in planning

Hindustan Times

A panel constituted to probe Uttarakhand’s Silkyara tunnel collapse in November has flagged shortcomings in the planning for the project, saying its design report lacked detailed geotechnical and geophysical investigations. “Prioritizing safety measures is paramount in tunnel construction projects,” the panel said in its 70-page report, a copy of which HT has seen. “Adhering to the prescribed rate of tunnel …

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1 year ago

Nasa wants to drill into these oceans. They are not on Earth

India Today

In their relentless pursuit of extraterrestrial life, scientists have adopted a simple yet profound strategy: "Follow the water." The latest focus of this interstellar search lies in the concept of "Ocean Worlds"—icy moons orbiting the giant planets, harboring vast oceans beneath their frozen exteriors. These moons are believed to contain more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined, locked …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Japanese rover tests on track for lunar mission with India

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Months after India successfully landed a craft near the lunar south pole, the next moon mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation in collaboration with Japan is progressing at a fast pace, with the Japanese agency recently completing a series of tests for the rover that will traverse the lunar surface. JAXA has created multiple facilities to emulate …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Sinking reality: 201 Himachal villages facing subsidence, finds study

Hindustan Times

Having seen its worst ever monsoon in recorded history, Himachal Pradesh is now on the edge over another development -- 201 villages across the state are experiencing land subsidence. Prolonged wet spell causing land to sink As per geologists, the prolonged wet spell, spanning over five months, caused the soil to be become supersaturated, thus leading to land subsidence incidents. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Science Notebook | 2023 Laskar Award for predicting the 3D structure of proteins using AI

The Hindu

Published : Oct 05, 2023 11:00 IST - 5 MINS READ THE 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, announced on September 21, honoured John Jumper and Demis Hassabis, the scientists who invented AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence system that solved the long-standing challenge of predicting the 3D structure of proteins from the one-dimensional sequence of their amino acids. “We found …

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1 year, 2 months ago

55 Chinese sailors including the captain dead after nuclear submarine got caught in a trap set in the Yellow Sea: What British Intelligence report says

Op India

A British intelligence report has made a shocking revelation that at least 55 Chinese sailors are believed to have died after Beijing’s nuclear submarine got caught in a trap set up for British subsurface vessels in the Yellow Sea. The said confidential report suggests that 55 Chinese sailors, including the captain and 21 officers, may have died due to a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Is this the best place to find aliens in our solar system? Jupiter's moon Europa is found to have the key ingredient for life in its salty ocean

Daily Mail

Experts already think there's a huge ocean below Europa's ice-covered shell Scientists have found carbon dioxide on Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, for the first time. Scientists have found carbon dioxide on Europa's surface and the next step is determining where it came from Scientists are almost certain that hidden beneath the icy surface of Europa is a saltwater ocean with …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Floods or droughts,technology always has the solution

New Indian Express

Either extreme is a direct threat to farming and agriculture, and in turn to the livelihoods of lakhs of farmers in the affected districts. One such technology has been successfully tried at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru to rid the cricket pitch of water during heavy rains—the first time on a cricket ground anywhere in the world. It is a subsurface …

1 year, 5 months ago

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reflects on tenure and tradition amid policy challenges

LA Times

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, photographed June 12 in Albuquerque, became the first Native American Cabinet member when she was sworn in as Interior secretary in 2021. Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico did not get a response from Haaland when he asked when the first utility-scale offshore wind projects would be permitted Politics Interior nominee Deb Haaland questioned on …

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Elevated radiation detected at former Bay Area landfill turned art park

Isro to launch Shukrayaan to Venus: Why Earth's twin is an engineer's nightmare

Indian Ocean has a giant gravity hole. We didn't know how it formed until now

A mysterious signal came before the biggest Tonga eruption. It was missed

Europa Clipper deploys boom that will confirm if Jupiter's moon has oceans

Europa Clipper: A 5.5-Year Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon

SpaceHopper: A Three-Legged Jumping Asteroid Explorer Takes Inspiration from Astronauts

Cabinet okays development of Venus Orbiter Mission

Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power

Nasa to launch Europa Clipper to Jupiter's moon, employ new orbit strategy

INCOIS revises outlook, forecasts La Niña from September

Hyderabad-based INCOIS forecasts La Nina climate conditions from July to February

Scientists recreate conditions of Saturnian moon in a lab — and it could help us find alien life

Moon's polar craters hide big water reserves, Isro study reveals

No more Himalayan blunders, please

Months after Uttarakhand tunnel collapse, panel flags shortcomings in planning

Nasa wants to drill into these oceans. They are not on Earth

Japanese rover tests on track for lunar mission with India

Sinking reality: 201 Himachal villages facing subsidence, finds study

Science Notebook | 2023 Laskar Award for predicting the 3D structure of proteins using AI

55 Chinese sailors including the captain dead after nuclear submarine got caught in a trap set in the Yellow Sea: What British Intelligence report says

Is this the best place to find aliens in our solar system? Jupiter's moon Europa is found to have the key ingredient for life in its salty ocean

Floods or droughts,technology always has the solution

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reflects on tenure and tradition amid policy challenges