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Top 10 science news and discoveries that defined 2023
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Top 10 science news and discoveries that defined 2023

India Today  

In the whirlwind of 2023, science captivated our attention with a tapestry of extraordinary events. NASA RETRIEVES ASTEROID BITS FOR CLUES TO EARTH'S ORIGINS NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe completed a seven-year mission, delivering 8.8 ounces of rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert on September 24.Top of Form Bennu, older than Earth, may hold clues about our …

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NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter
1 year, 3 months ago

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter

NPR  

NASA asteroid sample lands safely in Utah before being whisked away by helicopter Enlarge this image toggle caption Keegan Barber/NASA Keegan Barber/NASA Scientists are exulting over the safe arrival of a canister containing about a cup's worth of asteroid rocks, collected 200 million miles away, that landed in a Utah desert after a 7-year NASA mission sent to retrieve them. …

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The celestial police: Meet India’s asteroid hunters
1 year, 8 months ago

The celestial police: Meet India’s asteroid hunters

Live Mint  

It has been an eventful week for astronomers around the world. After initial training, amateur astronomers and asteroid hunters rely largely on astronomical data sets and images shared by large sky surveys to spot these objects. Divyendu Sen, a biology lecturer at the Government Senior Secondary School at Unhel in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district, has been participating in asteroid search campaigns …

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Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu
2 years, 5 months ago

Science for All | The strange surface of asteroid Bennu

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! NASA’s space mission to study asteroid Bennu could have ended in disaster if it did not leave immediately after collecting samples from its surface in October 2020. The space organisation has revealed its findings after analysing the …

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Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids
2 years, 5 months ago

Asteroid Bennu's surface is like plastic ball pit same as play area for kids

India Today  

The OSIRIS-ReX mission returning to Earth after successfully scooping rock and soil samples has revealed a unique makeup of Asteroid Bennu. Scientists, after analysing the initial data gathered by the spacecraft as it swooped in to make the touch-and-go manoeuvre have realised that had it fired the thrusters, it could have sunk into Bennu due to the particles that make …

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The best from the science journals: Asteroid analysis to decoding dinosaurs
4 years, 2 months ago

The best from the science journals: Asteroid analysis to decoding dinosaurs

The Hindu  

Studying HIV up close Published in Science Scientists have for the first time have recreated the first steps of infection by HIV in a test tube. This was the first ever discovered feather fossil and now advanced microscopic techniques found that it came from the left wing of a bird-like dinosaur called Archaeopteryx. A mutation in a particular receptor gene …

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