Bharat Sharma

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This photograph taken on December 22, 2020 shows Christmas light decorations taken with a slow camera speed in Mulhouse, eastern France.

Is it possible to travel faster than light? Scientists believe so!

Scientists have historically discouraged others from taking the idea of warp drives too seriously, but a new study suggests that travelling faster than light may be possible by taking advantage of…

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An undated handout photo taken by Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University Queensland and released on October 28, 2013 shows a new shade skink in the rugged Cape Melville mountain range, northeastern Australia's Cape York Peninsula

Australia: 13 more species have now gone extinct

Australia has officially confirmed the extinction of 13 species endemic to the country. These include 12 mammals, along with the first reptile to have gone extinct since European colonisation…

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A handout picture provided on February 14, 2021 by the United Arab Emirates Space Agency taken by the Emirates eXploration Imager.

Turns out Mars underwent not one, but up to 20 separate ice ages!

For long, scientists wondered whether the glaciers on Mars formed as a result of a single Ice Age or by multiple ice ages. Now they have some answers

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Earth from space, captured by NASA!

Why scientists believe life on Earth will perish way earlier than previously thought

Scientists now believe that the Earth will perish much before the Sun's existential shenanigans consume life on our planet.

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Representative image | Dark clouds cover the sun in Kuwait City on February 28, 2021.

NASA recently created artificial glowing clouds in the Earth's atmosphere!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently unveiled a new experiment - the Super Soaker mission. Quite literally, the agency created artificial glowing clouds

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In this picture taken on February 8, 2021 army personnel interact with a stray dog called Blackie near the entrance of Tapovan tunnel, where dozens are still feared to be trapped following a flash flood thought to have been caused when a glacier broke off on February 7. "The dog has been roaming near the tunnel and was likely someone's pet who is trapped inside," an army officer told AFP.

'Blackie' is waiting for his caretakers trapped inside tunnel in Uttarakhand

The aftermath of flash floods caused by a glacier burst in the Indian state of Uttarakhand has brought out tales of despair and overcoming, and such is the story of Blackie - a dog who has spent…

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Representative image: NASA recently shared a mesmerising image of the "Fireworks Galaxy" | Courtesy: NASA

Rare backwards-spinning star spotted in a distant planetary system by scientists

A planetary system far away was recently found to be harbouring two planets that orbit a star rotating backwards

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Japan's newly appointed Minister in charge of regional revitalization Tetsushi Sakamoto delivers a speech during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on September 17, 2020.

Japan appoints 'Minister of Loneliness' to fight pandemic-driven isolation

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday launched a cabinet aimed at easing loneliness and stress among its citizens

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Antarctica

Scientists discover life where it shouldn't exist in Antarctica

Scientists recently discovered life where they least expected it!

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This NASA handout photo released August 5, 2015, taken by Astronaut Scott Kelly on the International Space Station(ISS) shows lettuce growing during the VEGGIE hardware validation test. VEGGIE provides lighting and nutrient supply for plants in the form of a low-cost growth chamber and planting "pillows" -- helping provide nutrients for the root system.

NASA is offering $500,000 to cooks who can make other worldly meals for astronauts

Consider yourself an out worldly cook? NASA may have the perfect job for you

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The UK Seasonal Relief Team working for The Watercress Company operate the cutting machine to harvest spinach on farmland near Dorchester, in southern England on June 5, 2020, during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.

Scientists recently taught spinach how to send emails... No kidding!

What if we told you that scientists recently made spinach send emails? Jest aside, this is purely factual.

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People give a three-finger salute after calls for protest went out on social media in Yangon on February 3, 2021, as Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was formally charged on Wednesday two days after she was detained in a military coup.

Myanmar's military coup now has a new adversary - the #MilkTeaAlliance

Asia's flagship pro-democracy movement, or as it is commonly known - #MilkTeaAlliance is now roaring in Myanmar, which recently underwent a military coup

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A handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on January 29, 2021 shows a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold foil amulet inside his mouth uncovered at the Taposiris Magna Temple in western Alexandria

Egyptian mummies with golden tongues discovered near Alexandria

Mummies from around 2,000 years ago with golden amulets in their tongues were discovered in Alexandria, Egypt recently

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Representative: This handout image released by the Swedish Museum of Natural History on April 24, 2017 shows an X-ray tomographic rendering of a bubble in 2.4 billion-year-old lava containing mycelial fossils. The bubble is 0.8 mm in diameter. Fossils accidentally discovered in South Africa are probably the oldest fungi ever found by a margin of 1.2 billion years, rewriting the evolutionary story of these organisms which are neither flora nor fauna, researchers said on April 24, 2017.

Deadly fungus could cause a pandemic more fatal than COVID-19, scientists warn

While the world struggles to contain the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, scientists are warning of another one which is likely to come from a yeast-like fungus

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A picture of a human brain taken by a positron emission tomography scanner, also called PET scan, is seen on a screen on January 9, 2019, at the Regional and University Hospital Center of Brest (CRHU - Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire de Brest), western France.

LSD allows brain to trespass anatomical rules, new study finds

A new study sheds light on how LSD alters what happens in one's brain

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