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• India may have another crack at soft landing on the moon in 2020

  In Septemeber, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) tried to be a part of history by attempting a soft landing on the moon with Chandrayaan-2. Sadly, before the Vikram lander reached the lunar surface, the team lost communication with it. Later, the lander was located, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to see the brightest constellations in your own backyard

  The dark skies of the great outdoors help people to see the wonders of space, either with the naked eye or using telescopes. ...

  • The Conversation

• New evidence shows the first cells could have formed at the bottom of the ocean

  Where did life come from? In recent years, many scientists have shifted from favoring a “primordial soup” in pools of ...

  • The Conversation

• Helena Gleichen: pioneer radiographer, suffragist, and forgotten hero of WWI

  “Women, your country needs you,” Millicent Fawcett, the campaigner for women’s suffrage, proclaimed when war was declared ...

  • The Conversation

• Instagram tries to mimic TikTok with its new ‘Reels’ feature in Brazil

  Instagram has finally launched its first weapon in the war against TikTok– Reels. TechCrunch and Variety reported The editing feature residing in the Stories section launched today in Brazil. The feature lets anyone shoot 15-second videos that can be edited with music from other ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Data: The UN has overlooked millions of malnourished children in Africa

  Four years ago the United Nations (UN) member states created a list of international development targets, known as the Sustainable ...

  • The Conversation

• Twitter wants your help to figure out its half-baked deepfakes policy

  Last night, Twitter released its draft policy on deepfakes and opened up its feedback process for users. The policy is still in a very early stage and a lot of details, like determining and identifying manipulated photos and videos, are unstructured. The company defines deepfakes ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• If humans disappeared, which species would dominate the Earth?

  In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans left the scene? After all, humans are very likely to disappear long before the sun expands into a red giant and exterminates all living things from the Earth. Assuming that we don’t extinguish all other life as ...

  • The Conversation

• Tech is powering the future of civil disobedience

  People across the world are demonstrating their discontent in increasingly creative and disruptive ways. The past year ...

  • The Conversation

• Caribbean seagrass is littered with infected lobsters — but the habitat may save the species

  The Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus is under threat from a deadly virus. Panulirus argus 1 (PaV1) is found throughout ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA found hundreds of exoplanets — and is set to find thousands more

  Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand ...

  • The Conversation

• The EU is coming after big tech again — this time for political ads

  The EU is said to be considering new political ad regulations so that "people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan