Fluorescent nanodiamonds may be smaller than small but they pack a punch big enough to reverberate across many industries
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The Moon will be further from the Earth than usual, so those in parts of Chile and Argentina will be able to witness a kind of ring of light coming from the Sun
The ₹1,236-crore Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) was recently approved by the Union Cabinet. The mission will be launched by Launch Vehicle Mark-3 and ISRO said 19 payloads will be onboard VOM.
Solex’s cells would be made rectangular. This would increase the effective power produced by 7%, improve the structural efficiency of the cells, require no significant changes in associated installation costs, and, crucially, require less space for a similar power output
The debate lives between concerns that activism will distract scientists from the science and protecting people from misinformation and the risk of apathy
The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards seem like an attempt to bring scholars in line by hijacking their reward mechanisms
The gliders are deployed to study the sea temperatures, salinity and geochemical process in the ice cold region
Lockdowns have been shown to have starkly impacted human activities such as industrial pollution, transportation and fossil fuel burning
The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June are welcoming their new ride home
A new null result from the LUX-ZEPLIN dark-matter detector didn’t prompt disappointment among physicists. It prompted resignation
The comet was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on January 9, 2023, and independently observed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in South Africa a month later
The First rocky planet, about 4,200 light years away, found orbiting white dwarf offers insight into Earth’s potential survival after sun’s death
Chandrayaan-3 was found to have landed within a crater — about 160 km in diameter — and detected in the images as a nearly semi-circular structure
What did the Centre for Analysis and Learning in Livestock and Food (CALF) of the National Dairy Development Board find in the Tirupati laddus? What are the adulterants? Why is good baseline data, specific to Indian conditions, necessary?
On September 29, 1988, the U.S. launched the STS-26 mission. In case you are wondering why that is important, it was the first American mission with a human crew since the Challenger disaster 32 months before. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how this successful mission panned out…
The research identified five elephant populations spread across Northern, Central, and Southern India. Two populations in the north and three in the south. Historically, elephants migrated from the north to the south, but with each migration, their genetic diversity declined.
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