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How a Chinese rocket failure boosted Elon Musk's SpaceX in Indonesia

20/02/2024
Elon Musk - the owner of SpaceX, the world’s most successful rocket launcher – seized on the failure to prevail over state-owned China Great Wall Industry Corp (CGWIC) as Jakarta’s company of choice for putting satellites into space.

Protein structures should be collected as they are precious: Breakthrough Prize laureate

19/02/2024
John Jumper has been developing novel methods to apply artificial intelligence and and machine learning to protein biology

Hundred years ago, Satyendra Nath Bose changed physics forever

19/02/2024
Despite a long career in physics, he published sparsely and never produced another work of similar value

How India’s mixologists are curating history-inspired cocktail menus

19/02/2024
The menus delve into different aspects of history — the heritage of a city, of a place, ingredients that have stood the test of time, and even, classic drinks

Is Russia testing a new anti-satellite weapon? | Explained

18/02/2024
What would be its use? Won’t it violate the provisions of the Outer Space Treaty? What kind of damage can it cause? Do Russia and the U.S. have ASAT capabilities? Why do theories about it also include the nuclear question?

The beginning of a masterpiece

17/02/2024
On February 17, 1869, legend has it that Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev conceived and created the table that we now know as the periodic table. While that might be an exaggeration, Mendeleev’s role in creating the table is indisputable. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at how the periodic table came to be…

Smoking leaves a lasting adverse impact on immune responses

17/02/2024
There is wide variability in the way humans respond to immune challenges, such as bacterial or viral infections, as seen with the diverse range of clinical outcomes observed after infection with SARS-CoV-2

How various coffee varieties differ in taste

17/02/2024
Why is this fuss about these various major varieties of coffee? The answer comes from a recent genetic study of coffee beans

Nearly 50% of pregnancies in India are high-risk

17/02/2024
Prevalence of high-risk pregnancies was highest in Meghalaya (67.8%), Manipur (66.7%), Mizoram (62.5%) and Telangana (60.3%), while lowest in Sikkim (33.3%), Odisha (37.3%) and Chhattisgarh (38.1%)

ISRO successfully launches INSAT-3DS meteorological satellite

17/02/2024
‘The spacecraft has been injected into a very good orbit,’ ISRO Chairman S. Somanath said

New species of damselfly discovered in Kerala’s Ponmudi hills

16/02/2024
The discovery is significant, because for over 160 years, the genus Phylloneura was considered monotypic, with a single described species

What makes the brain the most complicated object in the universe

16/02/2024
For the first time, the thoughts and impressions of people unable to communicate with the outside world were translated into continuous natural language, using a combination of AI and brain imaging technology

Venture capitalists back ‘steroid Olympics’ where drug-testing is legal

16/02/2024
As the Olympic motto declares, the limits of human performance are there to be tested – faster, higher, stronger

ISRO’s high-resolution imaging satellite Cartosat-2 bids adieu

16/02/2024
As planned, the Cartosat-2 crashed into the Indian Ocean on February 14.

What our ancestors’ genomes can tell us about modern health | Explained

16/02/2024
In a flurry of new studies, researchers have reported insights into human ancestors’ diets, lifestyle conditions, and diseases using fragments of their DNA

GSLV-F14 carrying INSAT-3DS satellite to lift off at 5.35 pm on February 17: ISRO

15/02/2024
The GSLV-F14 is the 16th flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), and the 10th flight with the indigenous cryo stage

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