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NASA fuels moon rocket for 1st time in countdown rehearsal

Despite a fuel line leak, NASA fuelled its massive moon rocket for the first time on Monday and proceeded with a critical countdown test. This was NASA's fourth attempt at the crucial dress rehearsal, the final major step before the moon rocket's long-awaited launch...

NGC 541 fuels an irregular galaxy in a new Hubble image

This striking pair is an elliptical galaxy NGC 541 and an unusual star-forming and Elliptical galaxies are nearly spherical to egg-shaped groups of stars that form when galaxies merge. NGC 541 shoots out radio jets that are invisible to human eyes but detectable by...

Scientists explore the reason why some attempts to convert the greenhouse gas into fuel fails

Scientists have tried to chemically convert carbon dioxide into fuels. But these processes did not work out well in real life. Scientists from MIT have identified the major reason for poor performance in such conversion systems. The reason is a local depletion of the carbon...

Scientists estimated deaths globally from air pollution in 2019

Scientists have published a research paper in The Lancet Planetary Health and highlighted the scale of potentially life-threatening air pollution in urban areas. The research team has said that approximately 86% of people living in urban areas in the world are exposed to unhealthy particulate...

‘Ocean battery’ targets renewable energy quandary

A wind turbine sitting idle on a calm day and spinning swiftly when power demand has a problem for renewables. Scientists think this problem can be sorted under the sea. Offshore wind farms can use seawater to essentially store energy. This helps us in fossil...