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Chandrayaan’s Pragyan rover offers evidence of magma ocean on young moon

21/08/2024
As Pragyan travelled around 100 m from the lander over two weeks, it occasionally stopped to observe moon dust with its instruments

Study shows video games can improve mental wellbeing — up to a point

21/08/2024
Surveys have shown playing video games can have positive effects on stress levels and creativity.

Can blood tests for cancer save more lives? | Explained

21/08/2024
A multi-cancer early detection test can spot circulating tumour DNA or circulating tumour cells early and help ensure treatment can be more effective

Sunita and Barry will be on the ISS longer than expected. What next?

21/08/2024
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

Europe’s Jupiter probe to stage daring lunar-earth fly-by 

20/08/2024
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

What ails Indian research papers? Poor quality or just bad grammar?

20/08/2024
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

SpaceX a week away from first private spacewalk

20/08/2024
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

Earth ended a streak of 13 hot months in June, EU climate service says

20/08/2024
In its wake are thousands of heat-related deaths, ailing ecosystems, and a planet on the precipice of a profoundly altered climate

Mandyam Srinivasan of bee studies fame faces misconduct allegations

20/08/2024
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

Former CSIR chief Girish Sahni passes away

19/08/2024
His time at the helm of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was marked by financial issues

fMRI may reveal depression ‘subtypes’ and treatments that could work

19/08/2024
The manifestations of depression appear as faulty brain patterns that, a study has found, psychiatrists often don’t account for

What is a blue moon?

18/08/2024
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

Guntur, spectral lines, and the discovery of helium

18/08/2024
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…

Zoopharmacognosy: the study of how animals self-medicate

17/08/2024
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.

Subclinical TB is the reason for slow drop in TB incidence, says Soumya Swaminathan

17/08/2024
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

South American lungfish has largest genome of any animal

17/08/2024
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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