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Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...

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Sustainable Development

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Set For Fourth Of July Arrival At Jupiter

Juno has spent five years traveling towards its destination, and has already produced some awesome observations as it has reached the final stretch of its journey. For inst...

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Human Rights

Putting Their Lives On The Line For Information

More than a month has passed since J Parasmal, a 58-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist who used the tool to unearth building violations in Sowcarpet, was hacked t...

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Human Rights

Over 900 Human Rights Violation Cases Pending

Over 900 cases of human rights violation in various forms, including that of by men in uniform, are still pending before the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC). This can ...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Is Already Working On Legal Approval For Its 2018 Mars Flight

I’ve been to the Humans to Mars Summit, an annual conference thrown by Explore Mars about speeding up human colonization of the Red Planet, a few times. It’s al...

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Sustainable Development

New Data From New Horizons Reveals Pure Water Ice On Pluto’s Moon Hydra

When scientists discovered a tiny moon orbiting Pluto back in 2005, they named it Hydra in keeping with the general Greco-Roman underworld theme established in the Plutonia...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Probes Giant Magnetic Explosions Around Earth

The interplay of these electrically charged particles creates what is considered to be a fourth state of matter called plasma. Plasma, which makes up 99 percent of the visi...

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Sustainable Development

A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus

Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter o...

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Sustainable Development

Gamma Rays Can Show Us Which Asteroids Are Worth Mining

An instrument built to take advantage of this ability could one day be common on space probes, and used to find what?s going on compositionally under the surface of an aste...

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Sustainable Development

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe

Prior to its Aug. 12, 2005 launch, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was loaded up with 10 years’ worth of data projecting the future positions of Earth ...

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