As Pragyan travelled around 100 m from the lander over two weeks, it occasionally stopped to observe moon dust with its instruments
Surveys have shown playing video games can have positive effects on stress levels and creativity.
A multi-cancer early detection test can spot circulating tumour DNA or circulating tumour cells early and help ensure treatment can be more effective
This isn’t the first time crew members have overstayed in space: in 1991-1992, Sergei Krikalev’s mission was extended to 311 days due to political chaos on the earth
In a novel double manoeuvre, the JUICE probe will use the gravity of the moon to swing towards the earth and then use the earth’s gravity to slow down
India comes third after China and the U.S. in the number of research papers published, but the rejection rate of Indian papers is also high, not so much due to poor research but more so due to weak language and grammar
The five-day expedition, named Polaris Dawn, will be led by US billionaire Jared Isaacman, who already chartered the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight in 2021, called Inspiration4
In its wake are thousands of heat-related deaths, ailing ecosystems, and a planet on the precipice of a profoundly altered climate
Based on his work on bees, Srinivasan received an award from IISc in 2009 among other honours, but two biologists have now called 10 of his papers into question
His time at the helm of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was marked by financial issues
The manifestations of depression appear as faulty brain patterns that, a study has found, psychiatrists often don’t account for
A second full moon in a single month is usually called a blue moon, but there are other ways in which the moon can be blue
Did you know that helium is the first alien element, so as to say? This means that its existence elsewhere was discerned much before it was actually discovered here on our planet. A.S.Ganesh traces back to Guntur on August 18, 1868 to tell you this story…
Pregnant lemurs nibble on tamarind leaves to aid milk production, and pregnant elephants in Kenya eat the leaves of some plants of the Boraginaceae family to induce delivery.
The focus has been on improving case detection and diagnosis of people who come with TB symptoms and in treating them. This has helped in reducing the mortality but where things have not changed is in the incidence
Because the forerunners of today’s lungfish were ancestral to the tetrapods, their genomes can provide insight into how vertebrates first evolved limbs that enabled life on land
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