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Alpha, beta, theta: what are brain states and brain waves? And can we control them?

11/01/2024
There’s no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a “theta” state – said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep

The strange story of the grave of Copernicus

11/01/2024
Nicholas Copernicus, or Mikołaj Kopernik in Polish, was born in Toruń in 1473. He was the youngest of four children born to a local merchant

How we discovered that Uranus and Neptune are actually nearly identical in colour

11/01/2024
A new study has revealed that these two ice giants are actually very similar shades of greenish blue

IISc Bengaluru comes up with warm vaccine against current strains of SARS-CoV-2

10/01/2024
The RS2 antigen can also be stored at room temperature for a month without the need for cold storage, unlike many vaccines in the market which require mandatory cold storage

China says it will launch its next lunar explorer in the first half of this year

10/01/2024
The announcement came a day after a U.S. company abandoned a lunar landing planned for Feb. 23

With Aditya-L1 spacecraft placed in halo orbit, focus is on data collection on sun  

09/01/2024
The payloads have been switched on and some of them have already collected data

U.S. moon landing attempt seems doomed after fuel leak 

09/01/2024
Astrobotic’s apparent failure could complicate the U.S.’s strategy to ship hardware to the moon using the commercial sector

NASA to push back moon mission timelines amid spacecraft delays - sources

09/01/2024
NASA is set to delay its next few missions to the moon under a key program as technical hurdles mount with the various spacecraft it intends to use to get there, according to four people familiar with NASA’s plans.

U.S.’s first moon landing attempt in 50 years in jeopardy because of engine problem

08/01/2024
The problem arose about seven hours after Monday’s predawn liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

First U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries

08/01/2024
The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years is on its way to the moon

Could sisal leaves make sanitary napkins more sustainable in India?

08/01/2024
A team led by Manu Prakash at Stanford University has found the absorption capacity of a sisal-based material to be higher than those in commercial menstrual pads

Claudine Gay | Forced exit

07/01/2024
Harvard University’s first Black president, who was attacked by Republicans for allegedly failing to stem anti-Semitism on the campus, resigned after plagiarism allegations surfaced

When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter

07/01/2024
On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted three points of light that he later confirmed to be Jupiter’s moons. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a discovery that led to the development of modern astronomy…

Should India study wastewater to track malaria, dengue?

06/01/2024
Choosing priority pathogens for wastewater surveillance should be based not just on feasibility of the detection but also on the geographical context of the disease, pathogen biology, and availability of sewage network

ISRO’s Aditya-L1 successfully placed in a halo orbit around L1 point  

06/01/2024
India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 reached the L1 point on January 6, 127 days after it was launched on September 2, 2023. The point is located roughly 1.5 million km from earth and enables the spacecraft to view the sun continuously

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