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One of the driest places on Earth, the Sahara Desert, is experiencing a dramatic turn of events and witnessed Serious flooding after two days of torrential rains in southeastern Moroccoreported AP. According to Morocco’s meteorological agency, the town of Tagounite, located 450 kilometers south of the capital Rabat, received more than 100 mm of rain … Read more

New Delhi: Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms to hit Earth produced stunning skies filled with pinks, purples, greens and blues further south than normal, including in parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City . “Once again it was a pretty extensive display,” said Shawn Dahl, a … Read more

NASA’s highly anticipated Europa Clipper mission has encountered an unexpected challenge due to Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida on October 9 and 10. The mission, intended to study Jupiter’s moon Europa, had its spacecraft and launch rocket, the Falcon Heavy, secured at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Precautionary measures taken As the hurricane … Read more

Some of the best strategies for reducing your chances of developing dementia are, to put it kindly, impractical. Don’t grow old; don’t be a woman; Choose your parents carefully. But although old age remains by far the biggest risk factor, women are more at risk than men and some genetic inheritances make dementia more likely … Read more

NASA’s nebula survey offers a stunning glimpse into the dynamic, colorful regions of space where stars are born and evolve. Observations made from powerful telescopes such as Hubble provide invaluable information about these celestial phenomena, revealing the processes of star formation, mass ejection, and the interaction of cosmic forces. As NASA continues to study these … Read more

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection, was a leading cause of blindness among Indians in the late 1990s. According to the World Health Organization, it has been eliminated as a public health emergency in India. The WHO on Tuesday facilitated India the feat that only Nepal and Myanmar achieved in the region, PTI reported. What is … Read more

One fall day in 2020, Patrick Doherty was walking his dog up a steep mountain in County Donegal, Ireland, when he noticed that, unusually for him, he was getting out of breath. The final diagnosis was terrifying: amyloidosis, a rare genetic disease that caused a protein, amyloid, to build up in her organs and tissues. … Read more

Bengaluru: The upper stage of the PSLV-37 rocket, which launched a record number of 104 satellites more than seven years ago, has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere as predicted, the Indian Space Research Organization announced on Tuesday. PSLV rocket enters Earth PSLV-C37 was launched on February 15, 2017 with Cartosat-2D as the primary payload along with 103 … Read more

The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday, October 7, that the Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 local time (14:52 UTC). On the microblogging platform X (previously known as Twitter), ESA shared the video of the launch of its first … Read more

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified a peculiar galaxy that may shed new light on the origins of the universe. The observations revealed an unusual light signature of the galaxy, where its gas appeared to shine brighter than its stars, an unprecedented phenomenon, as reported bythe independent. This … Read more