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Space Rose - A rose grown in microgravity  Credit: DeviantArt          Two decades ago, NASA developed a special growing chamber for plants for use on space missions, …

Last Man on the Moon Credit: NASA Who was the last Man on the Moon ?        Though he is best known as the last man to set foot on the Moon, American Astronaut  Eug…

Can two black holes collide ? Credit: Getty Images/Science Photo Libra                    Creator: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRA           YES . The collision of tw…

Credit: Astrobiotechnology NASA to grow vegetables, plants on Moon           NASA is planning to grow plants and vegetables - such as turnip and basil - on the Moon, to …

Credit : https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/ What's in a cloud ?  What are types of clouds ?         WHEN you look up in the sky on most days, you are likely to see …

Credit : VectorStock  International Day of Peace Do you know what our world is in desire need of, today ?            It is peace . Our world has been splintered into fac…

Credit : Boldsky.com                “Ozone for life” is the slogan for World Ozone Day 2020.  WORLD OZONE DAY The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Lay…

Why should we observe a day for democracy?  In modern societies, people are increasingly losing faith in the rule of kings, nobles or autocrats.  In an egalitarian and j…

R ESEARCHERS have provided a new insight on how continents are formed early in Earth history. You in your junior classes might have thought about the formation of c…

T HE basic building blocks of life - amino acids - can spontaneously  come into existence when icy comets smash into planets, a new study suggests . Researchers said th…

S EEDS  of life may have been sown on asteroids where warm and wet conditions, suitable to formation of some biomolecules - the building blocks of life - once prevailed,…

In 1859, a French doctor and amateur astronomer named Lescarbault observed what he thought was a planet moving between Mercury and the Sun. Many other astronomers repo…

Why are aeroplanes usually white ?   We can differentiate between aeroplanes belonging to different airlines with the help of their distinct logos and decorations. But t…

You might have heard somewhere, somehow about literacy rate but do you know that there  is a day known as International Literacy Day.  Now, what it has to do with lite…

ASIA's MAVEN mission has returned images showing the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously inc'isib…