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• Gravity wave detector test begins

  

  Gravity wave detector test beginsJapanese scientists have begun a test run of underground telescope KAGRA to detect gravitational waves and gain a better understanding of the universe through their observations, Japan's Kyodo agency reports.The test run, which began on Friday and will continue until Thursday, comes a month after a US-led team of scientists said they had identified the gravitational waves, theorised 100 years ago by Albert Einstein.The KAGRA telescope is installed inside an L-sha..

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• Penn chemists find potential ways to use methane in pharmaceuticals, value-added substances - News

  

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• Blowing Tiny Bubbles Through Seawater Could Help Protect Coral Reefs

  

  Stanford scientists have discussed a way of dealing with neutralizing human activities that turn oceans acidic: blowing tiny bubbles. Blowing bubbles, they say, removes carbon dioxide (CO2) off coastal marine areas and transports it to the atmosphere, ...

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• Material that recycles sunlight could be next big leap for solar cells

  

  Materials Material that recycles sunlight could be next big leap for solar cells Michael Franco March 25, 2016 If the rest of us have to recycle things like our milk cartons, junk mail and beer bottles, shouldn't solar cells have to abide by the same rules? That's part of the thinking in new research that's just come out of the University of Cambridge. Researchers there have discovered that ..

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• Saturn's moons and rings could be younger than the dinosaurs, study reveals

  

  When researchers talk about planets and moons forming, it’s usually an event that took place billions and billions of years ago - a timeframe that's so massive, it's hard for us to really comprehend. But that can no longer be said about Saturn’s famous moons and rings, because they might have formed a mere 100 million years ago, which makes them younger than most dinosaurs.  According to researchers from the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), a new computer model shows ..

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• NASA and Harvard Experts Find Climate Change Has Fundamentally Altered French Wine Harvests

  

  Photo by: Thinkstock/fotoluk1983 French vintners have been picking grapes earlier in recent decades, and climate change is a major factor. After looking at more than 400 years of harvest and climate data from France and Switzerland, researchers from Harvard University and NASA have concluded that in recent decades, warmer temperatures have pushed wine grape harvests in those countries more than 10 days earlier than in the period from 1600 to 1980—regardless of whether the growing seasons b..

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• Now clean your dirty clothes with sunlight

  

  You must have heard of solar technology, you must have read about different uses of sunlight. But what if we tell you that soon sunlight will be used to clean off your clothes, ending all your washing woes. Yes, its true! A spot of sunshine is all it could take to clean your clothes within minutes, as scientists, including those of Indian-origin, have developed a low-cost, efficient way to grow nanostructures on textiles that can degrade organic matter when exposed to light. The research fro..

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• Solar storm on Jupiter makes brilliant X-ray auroras shine

  

  Scientists observed Jupiter’s X-ray aurora – its “northern lights” – for the first time during the onslaught of a solar storm, with parts flaring to eight times as bright as normal.The observations helped scientists understand how Earth interacts with these enormous solar storms and solar winds, while also shedding light on fundamental planetary processes.The new study, published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, also provides a prelude to NASA’s Juno mission, set ..

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