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First Approach to Criticality
GROWTH-India telescope
The GROWTH-India telescope at Indian Astronomical Observatory in Ladakh captured a building sized asteroid as Read More …
JWST reported evidence of a liquid ocean buried under Ariel’s surface
On July 24, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reported evidence of a liquid ocean Read More …
Cheyava Falls: Perseverance Finds a Rock on Mars With ‘Leopard Spots’
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the image of a rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July Read More …
What are Bharat Small Reactors (BSRs)?
The Union Budget 2024-25 has proposed a partnership between the government and the private sector Read More …
Magnetofossils
Researchers have spotted Magnetofossils in rock varnish layers in Ladakh. What are magentofossils?
Lunar Occultation of Saturn
Difference parts of India witnessed Shani Chandra Grahan, also known as the Lunar Occultation of Read More …
NOvA experiment’s new study on neutrinos
The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) experiment in Minnesota in the U.S. is shedding light Read More …
Rapid Apophis Mission for Security and Safety (Ramses)
The European Space Agency (Esa) has announced funding for preparatory work on the Rapid Apophis Read More …
Asia’s first health research-related “Pre-clinical Network facility”
Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia’s first health research-related Read More …
Centre of excellence on Classical and Quantum Communications for 6G
The Secretary (Telecom) has inaugurated a centre of excellence on “Classical and Quantum Communications for Read More …
CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology
A recent study shows CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology exhibiting some of the least environmental impact Read More …
James Webb telescope reveals weather on cosmic brown dwarfs
A team of astronomers have used James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map the weather Read More …
COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024
Indian astrophysicist Prahlad Chandra Agrawal has been awarded the COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024.
Wolbachia bacteria
Researchers from Shenyang Agricultural University (SAU), China have shown that Wolbachia bacteria had manipulated the Read More …
Helium leaks on the Starliner spacecraft
American astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry (Butch) Wilmore, are still docked with the International Space Read More …
Scientists discover underground cave on the moon
Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. Lorenzo Bruzzone and Read More …
Last Universal Common Ancestor or LUCA
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed more light Read More …
NASA’s CHAPEA project
Recently, four volunteer crew members of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) project Read More …
Leggett Garg Inequality (LGI)
The Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) lab at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru had performed a Read More …
India’s scientific deep-drilling programme
Scientific deep-drilling is the enterprise of strategically digging boreholes to observe and analyse deeper parts Read More …
Mitochondrial donation
Mitochondrial donation is a new IVF-based method that gives people with faulty mitochondrial DNA the Read More …
BAP1 gene and IGF-1 hormone
A recent study, published in Nature Genetics, has identified over 5,000 genetic variations that contribute Read More …
Aphelion
Earth reaches aphelion every July. This year it did so on 5 July. Key points
Aditya-L1 completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point
India’s first solar mission, the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, has completed its first halo orbit around the Read More …