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Human activities responsible for rising sea levels

Sea-level rise, which has accelerated in recent decades, threatens to permanently inundate densely populated coastal cities and communities. According to… Read More

This fruit can charge your phone’s battery

Imagine if we could use plants and fruit, to store electricity that charges commonly used electronics like mobile phones or… Read More

NASA Curiosity rover snaps stunning panorama of Mars surface

NASA''s Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface -- containing 1.8 billion pixels. Composed of… Read More

17 new planets, including Earth-sized world discovered

Researchers have discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA''s Kepler… Read More

Astronomers discover new moon temporarily orbiting Earth

Astronomers have discovered that a car-sized second natural satellite, commonly called a mini-moon, is temporarily orbiting Earth for the past… Read More

Key NASA science, cargo head to space station

A Northrop Grumman rocket carrying the Cygnus resupply spacecraft has been successfully launched from NASA''s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia… Read More

NASA building homes made of fungi for Moon, Mars

Instead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to… Read More

Mars is losing water faster than expected

Researchers have revealed that Mars, the red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past… Read More

How your brain balances pleasure and pain

Researchers have zeroed in on an information-processing hub in the brain to discover how neurons balance pleasure and pain. The… Read More

Stars’ flares can kill potential life on exoplanets

NASA has identified over 4,100 exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars outside the Solar System -- but space researchers at… Read More