Europe-Japan space mission captures images of Mercury

Paris, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday. The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 […]

NCGSA to hold fifth Space Summer School 2021 next month

ISLAMABAD, National Center of GIS and Space Applications (NCGSA) has planned to arrange its fifth Space Summer School (SSS) 2021 for all young Space Enthusiasts from July 12-16. Space Summer School (SSS) is a specialized school/program designed specifically for school, college or university students to […]

China launches satellite to study space environment

China on Friday launched a new satellite to study space environment, local media reported. The experiment satellite was sent into planned orbit at around 07:01 a.m. local time (2301GMT Thursday) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northern Shanxi province, according to broadcaster CGTN. […]

Scientists create a new electronegativity scale

ISLAMABAD – Skoltech chemists have proposed a new electronegativity scale and published their findings in Nature Communications.The concept of electronegativity introduced by Linus Pauling, a great American chemist, in the 1930s refers to the ability of an atom to attract electron density. In a chemical […]

NASA’s helicopter survives first frigid Martian night

Islamabad-Making it through the frigid Martian temperatures after being deployed by NASA’s Perseverance rover is a major milestone for the small rotorcraft. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has emerged from its first night on the surface of Mars. Evening temperatures at Jezero Crater can plunge as […]

Vape aerosol has minimal impact on gene expression

ISLAMABAD   –  A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Toxicological Research & Application shows acute exposure of a 3D human bronchial tissue model to e-cigarette aerosol has minimal impact on gene expression compared to smoke from combustible cigarettes.The research involved sub-cytotoxic exposure to cells […]

Carbon-based molecules found in space

ISLAMABAD-Discovery may offer clues to carbon’s role in planet and star formation.Much of the carbon in space is believed to exist in the form of large molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Since the 1980s, circumstantial evidence has indicated that these molecules are abundant in space, but […]