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Ball and colleagues encouraged other researchers to duplicate their results, and drive down the level of uncertainty. (Photo: Pixabay)

Ozone layer declining over populated zones: study

Two possible suspects for this worrying trend stand out, the study concluded.

7 Feb 2018 3:13 PM IST

This study by NASA may finally clue us in about the origin of life on Earth. (Photo: Pixabay)

Ozone layer declining over populated zones, says study

Ozone in the lower stratosphere is slowly disintegrating, an international team of two dozen researchers warned.

7 Feb 2018 8:01 AM IST

Swiss adventurer Raphael Domjan, who is behind the project, aims to take the plane on its first stratospheric flight next year. (Photo credit: SolarStratos)

First test flight of stratospheric solar plane

Pilot Damian Hischier took the craft for a seven-minute test flight, reaching an altitude of 300 metres (nearly 1,000...

5 May 2017 9:21 PM IST

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) payload just prior to launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, on a NASA super pressure balloon in May 2016. (Photo: NASA)

NASA delays super pressure balloon launch due to bad weather

This was the third scheduled launch attempt for NASA's 2017 Wanaka Balloon Campaign from New Zealand.

11 April 2017 7:54 AM IST