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Nov 20, 2017

Pollution Control Board Wants a New Smog Alert System

The country’s top pollution-monitoring body wants a smog alert system in place for Delhi, where air quality has just begun to improve after almost two weeks of toxic haze.he Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) wants the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to warn Delhi in advance about the dust storms in west Asia and also cyclones brewing in the Bay of Bengal, both of which have a bearing on the city’s air. According to officials, an early warning system will give authorities the headroom to minimise the impact of foul air.

Nov 18, 2017

World's First Successful Head Transplant

The world's first head transplant has successfully been carried out on a corpse after a prolonged 18-hour operation.

As per Italian Surgeon Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, his team would soon be moving to a living human.

The transplant re-connected the spine, nerves and blood vessels of two persons.

Nov 16, 2017

Meteorological Satellite Fengyun-3D Launched

China launched a new meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3D. The satellite was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province.
Fengyun-3D is one of China's second generation of Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellites, which can provide global three dimensional all-weather and multi-spectral remote sensing images.
The satellite will form a network with the Fengyun-3C satellite.

Nov 10, 2017

Chinese Space Station to Crash

According to the European Space Agency, a Chinese space station could smash into a major city early next year.
Experts claimed that the 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace”, has gone out of control and headed towards the earth.
The station would crash between January and March.

Automatic Weather Station on Ben Nevis

Researchers have installed an automatic meteorological station on Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in the British Isles) that digitally collects information on temperatures, wind speeds and rainfall levels.

Nov 07, 2017

Two Navigation Satellites Launched

China, which is building its own navigation system to rival United States GPS, has launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space through a single carrier rocket.
The two newly-launched satellites represent the third phase of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
If everything goes according to the plan, China will become the third country in the world after the US and Russia to operate its own navigation system.

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