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Lack of vitamin D can lead to deficiencies such as rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Here's how you can get Vitamin D in cold winter months

Lack of vitamin D can lead to deficiencies such as rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.

16 Oct 2017 3:20 PM IST

Researchers from Princeton University in the US confirmed that the widely separated pair about 350 light years from Earth are in fact a binary pair. They also observed Kronos strikingly unusual chemical abundance pattern.

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Scientists discover sun-like twin stars 350 light years from Earth

The twin star was named after Kronos' lesser-known brother Krios. Their official designations are HD 240430 and HD...

14 Oct 2017 8:41 AM IST

$The additional hours of electricity would improve the refugees lives \by giving more opportunities for the kids to study in the nighttime. (Photo: AFP)$ Life

Jordan opens world's largest solar park for refugee camp

The 4,000 solar panels with a total capacity of 12.9 megawatts are designed to provide 14 hours of electricity a day.

14 Nov 2017 2:21 PM IST

Small stars can readily form rocky planets but do not gather enough material together to form Jupiter-sized planets. (Photo: Facebook/UniversityOfWarwick)

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Monster planet discovery challenges formation theory

Scientists have discovered a monster planet orbitting a small, distant star.

4 Nov 2017 2:46 PM IST

SkyCools earlier prototype panel at the companys headquarters in Burlingame, California.

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New technology could reinvent air conditioning

A radiative cooling technology could help cut energy consumption by nearly 70 per cent.

18 Sept 2017 10:20 AM IST

The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the Earths atmosphere. (Photo: Mark Tarello/Twitter)

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Amazing Northern Light display illuminates Finnish sky

Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on...

10 Sept 2017 10:21 AM IST

Solar storms result from an accumulation of magnetic energy in some places. (Photo: AFP)

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NASA captures images of strong solar flares

Out of two solar falres emitted yesterday, the second recorded to be the 'most intense' since December 2018.

7 Sept 2017 3:27 PM IST

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. (Photo: NASA)

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NASA probe nearing interstellar space

NASA's Voyager 2 has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency...

7 Oct 2018 5:21 PM IST

This illustration from NASA shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in August 2018, the spacecraft will get a gravity assist on October 3, 2018, as it passes within 1,500 miles of Venus. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe swinging by Venus on way to sun

The flyby is the first of seven that will draw Parker ever closer to the sun.

3 Oct 2018 9:28 AM IST

A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometres) across, the Goblin was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. (Photo: AP)

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Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond Pluto

A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto.

3 Oct 2018 9:22 AM IST

Research shows that winter brings with it double threat to eye damage. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Reasons to wear sunglasses in winter

Sun rays can still carry the same UVA and UVB rays as they do in summers and in snowy regions.

22 Jan 2018 10:59 AM IST

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Woman's face uncontrollably swells up due to sun poisoning

Find out more about the dangers.

6 April 2018 11:52 AM IST