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There aren't any organizations other than NASA that can claim they are operating on two different planets (at least none we know of from here on Earth). The space agency is now using that reach to create better helicopter blades on Earth and to push the Ingenuity Helicopter to greater heights on Mars."Our next-generation Mars helicopter testing has literally had the best of both worlds," said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's project manager and manager for the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopters. "Here on Earth,…

Mars may have seen dry and wet season cycles and thus, may have been habitable at some point in its past, according to scientists.Analysis of mud crack patterns on the early Martian surface, observed by NASA's Curiosity Rover, suggest an irregular or episodic presence of water, meaning water could have been present for a time and then evaporated.The process may have repeated until mud cracks formed, the scientists from France, US and Canada said in their study."These exciting observations of mature mud cracks are allowing…

The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope instrument onboard 'Pragyan' rover of Chandrayaan-3 has unambiguously confirmed the presence of sulphur on the lunar surface near south pole, through first-ever in-situ measurements, ISRO said on Tuesday. It also said the instrument also detected aluminium, calcium, iron, chromium, titanium, manganese, silicon and oxygen, as expected."The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard Chandrayaan-3 Rover has made the first-ever in-situ measurements on the elemental…

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the presence of water vapour in a planetary system situated at a distance of only 370 light-years from Earth.A discovery was recently made in the PDS 70 system, which has a K-type star cooler than the Sun. This system has an inner and outer disk of gas and dust, separated by a gap of 8 billion kilometres. Within this gap, two gas-giant planets are already known.The MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) developed by Webb identified the existence of water in the inner disk of the…

Japan-based Aiwa has announced its strategic partnerships with retailers Aptronix and Sangeetha Mobiles to boost its audio products’ retail presence in India. With these collaborations, Aiwa aims to solidify its position in the country’s retail channels and cater to customers who prefer to window shop for better audio experiences.Speaking about this retail expansion, Ajay Mehta, Managing Director of Aiwa India, said, "We are overwhelmed with the response to our Luxury Acoustics Speaker Range across various channels. The…

Jane Birkin was the elegant, delicate, heartstoppingly beautiful singer and movie star with a fascinatingly elusive and free-spirited screen presence. She was a performer with that interesting distinction of being Anglo-French, which somehow added to her unlocatable quality: she was quite at home with both languages, like other stars Charlotte Rampling, Kristin Scott Thomas and, indeed, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin’s daughter with Serge Gainsbourg.It was her destiny to be thought of as a public figure and national…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto & GTA Music The show had a high glamour quotient Published Jul 09, 2023  •  Last updated 25 minutes ago  •  3 minute read Beyoncé in performance tonight at Rogers Centre in the first of two shows marking the opening of the North American leg of her RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR. The show continues here tomorrow evening and hits Philadelphia on July 12. Photo by Kevin Mazur /Toronto Sun Article content Beyonce Rogers Centre Advertisement 2…

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive requiring financial institutions to obtain customers’ social media handles is against the law, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission has said. The CBN, in its recently released Customer Due Diligence Regulations, 2023, directed all money deposit banks to obtain comprehensive information about their customers, including their social media handles. The regulation, it claimed, contained measures that “are designed to improve the ability of financial institutions to identify…

Tough, unsentimental, witty, gravel-voiced and bullet-headed, Alan Arkin was a wiry character actor and comic presence who had a colossal career on stage, TV and movies. He came from the era of male stars such as Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ben Gazzara, Robert Duvall and Peter Falk – actors who projected a kind of take-it-or-leave-it pugnacity, integrity and strength. The always sympathetic and technically brilliant Arkin perhaps came into his own late in life, his face and shaven head morphing into a black-comic skull…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued a directive requiring financial institutions to collect customers’ social media handles, email addresses, phone numbers, residential addresses, and other relevant information. This initiative, it said, will strengthen customers’ due diligence measures and combat money laundering and terrorism financing. But the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)- a non-governmental organisation, has described the directive as unlawful and a violation of “Nigerians’…