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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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New Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment, Custom App to Monitor Blood Pressure at User’s Fingertip
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone's camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego, US, works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents (Rs. 5.6) to make.
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NASA's Mars InSight Lander Data Reveals Surprising Results About Possibility of Life on the Red Planet
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of California San Diego, Mars' subsurface has little to no evidence of water. The surprising results were derived after studying the seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath ...
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Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Could Help EVs in Cold Climates to Travel Further on a Single Charge
New lithium-ion batteries have been developed by researchers that are capable of performing well at both cold and hot temperatures, in what could prove useful for batteries used in electric vehicles. According to the study, these new batteries could help EVs improve their mileage in cold climates while cutting down the need for cooling systems to r...
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This Wearable Can Harvest Energy From Your Sweaty Fingers to Generate Power
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has designed a new device that uses sweat from your fingertips to generate energy. Similar in appearance to a Band-Aid, a user can wrap this flexible, thin strip around their fingertips, and the wearable starts converting human sweat into electrical energy that can then be utilised to c...
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Regardless Of Trump's Wall Talk, The Border's Always Been Blurry To These Architects
On the wall of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman's design lab at the University of California at San Diego, there's a giant map made by a group of former students. The map shows an unnamed region fronted by a broad seaboard and bisected by a perfectly straight line, rendered by the students as a length of yarn.
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North Korea's Latest Launch Designed To Cause Maximum Mayhem, Minimal Blowback
North Korea's latest missile launch seemed, as Stephan Haggard of the University of California at San Diego described it, "perfectly calibrated to create political mischief."
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US University's Invitation To Dalai Lama Triggers Uproar
The decision of an university in California to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese students who see the choice as an affront.
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Indian-Origin Chancellor Rejects Chinese Students' Call Not To Invite Dalai Lama
A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics.
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Gut Bacteria May Trigger Migraine
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (UC San Diego) have found an association between migraines and microbes that reduce nitrates.
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'Toilet to Tap' Gains Appeal in Drought-Parched California
The idea, for many, may be too hard to swallow.
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UN Climate Deal in Paris May End Up Burying 2 Degree Goal
The UN's Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Smokers Who Use E-Cigarettes Less Likely to Quit: Study
People who use e-cigarettes are less likely to quit smoking than those who don't try the devices, a new study has warned.
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High-Tech Contact Lenses Zoom With a Wink of an Eye
Swiss researchers are developing contact lenses that contain tiny telescopes to boost vision and zoom in and out with the wink of an eye, optic specialists said on Friday.
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Ancient Rock Shows Signs of Water on Mars: Study
A new analysis of the oldest meteorite from Mars suggests that early Martian landscape had water, but instead of vast oceans the red planet probably held smaller seas.
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NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...
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New Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment, Custom App to Monitor Blood Pressure at User’s Fingertip
Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost clip that uses a smartphone's camera and flash to monitor blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego, US, works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents (Rs. 5.6) to make.
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NASA's Mars InSight Lander Data Reveals Surprising Results About Possibility of Life on the Red Planet
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers at the University of California San Diego, Mars' subsurface has little to no evidence of water. The surprising results were derived after studying the seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission. The InSight lander studies the subsurface of the red planet digging roughly 300 meters beneath ...
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Improved Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Could Help EVs in Cold Climates to Travel Further on a Single Charge
New lithium-ion batteries have been developed by researchers that are capable of performing well at both cold and hot temperatures, in what could prove useful for batteries used in electric vehicles. According to the study, these new batteries could help EVs improve their mileage in cold climates while cutting down the need for cooling systems to r...
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This Wearable Can Harvest Energy From Your Sweaty Fingers to Generate Power
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has designed a new device that uses sweat from your fingertips to generate energy. Similar in appearance to a Band-Aid, a user can wrap this flexible, thin strip around their fingertips, and the wearable starts converting human sweat into electrical energy that can then be utilised to c...
-
Regardless Of Trump's Wall Talk, The Border's Always Been Blurry To These Architects
On the wall of Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman's design lab at the University of California at San Diego, there's a giant map made by a group of former students. The map shows an unnamed region fronted by a broad seaboard and bisected by a perfectly straight line, rendered by the students as a length of yarn.
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North Korea's Latest Launch Designed To Cause Maximum Mayhem, Minimal Blowback
North Korea's latest missile launch seemed, as Stephan Haggard of the University of California at San Diego described it, "perfectly calibrated to create political mischief."
-
US University's Invitation To Dalai Lama Triggers Uproar
The decision of an university in California to have the Dalai Lama speak at this year's commencement ceremony has sparked uproar among Chinese students who see the choice as an affront.
-
Indian-Origin Chancellor Rejects Chinese Students' Call Not To Invite Dalai Lama
A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics.
-
Gut Bacteria May Trigger Migraine
Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (UC San Diego) have found an association between migraines and microbes that reduce nitrates.
-
'Toilet to Tap' Gains Appeal in Drought-Parched California
The idea, for many, may be too hard to swallow.
-
UN Climate Deal in Paris May End Up Burying 2 Degree Goal
The UN's Paris climate conference, designed to reach a plan for curbing global warming, may instead become the graveyard for its defining goal: to stop temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Smokers Who Use E-Cigarettes Less Likely to Quit: Study
People who use e-cigarettes are less likely to quit smoking than those who don't try the devices, a new study has warned.
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High-Tech Contact Lenses Zoom With a Wink of an Eye
Swiss researchers are developing contact lenses that contain tiny telescopes to boost vision and zoom in and out with the wink of an eye, optic specialists said on Friday.
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Ancient Rock Shows Signs of Water on Mars: Study
A new analysis of the oldest meteorite from Mars suggests that early Martian landscape had water, but instead of vast oceans the red planet probably held smaller seas.
