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What is nuclear waste and what are the challenges of handling it? | Explained

12/03/2024
A bird’s eye view of the production, handling, and storage of this difficult substance and their effects on policy and tariffs

How a wandering white shark's epic journey could provide clues for protecting them

12/03/2024
The shark's presence so far west indicates that this part of the Gulf of Mexico could also be important to other white sharks

Study of polyglots offers insight on brain's language processing

12/03/2024
Polyglots are helping to provide insight into how the brain deals with language

INSAT-3DS commences Earth imaging operations

11/03/2024
Imager and Sounder payloads onboard INSAT-3DS are similar to the payloads flown on INSAT-3D and INSAT-3DR satellites.

India test-fires Agni-V ballistic missile with multiple warhead technology under Mission Divyastra

11/03/2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauds DRDO scientists on first flight test of Agni-V missile 

A man received 217 COVID shots — what does his body teach us?

11/03/2024
On March 4, a study published in The Lancet examined a 62-year-old German man who had received over 217 shots over 29 months

Why it matters that scientists modified a ‘sexual’ fruit fly to be asexual

11/03/2024
A new study demonstrates the profound biological consequences of relatively minor genetic manipulation

Scientists genetically modify ‘sexual’ fruit fly to reproduce asexually

10/03/2024
The findings have implications to approaches to control insect pests by releasing large numbers of males sterilised by irradiation or males bearing genomes edited to derail progeny development, and thus reduce progeny numbers

‘Samudrayaan set to explore ocean bed by 2025 end’

10/03/2024
So far, the U.S., Russia, China, France and Japan have carried out successful deep-ocean crewed missions

Why India urgently needs a legal framework for genomics

09/03/2024
Despite significant established capacity and expertise in India, a significant number of samples from India are sequenced and/or analysed by companies abroad with little oversight and regulation

Going to Mars? Speak to a psychologist first

09/03/2024
Because these communications travel at the speed of light and can’t go any faster, experts are coming up with ways to improve communication efficiency under time-delayed conditions.

Pentagon study finds no sign of alien life in reported UFO sightings going back decades

09/03/2024
The report found no evidence that any of them involved signs of alien life, or that the U.S. government and private companies had reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology and had conspired to hide it from the public.

The physics of why Shami’s ‘bolt upright’ seam works magic

09/03/2024
A good seam position increases the ball’s ability to take advantage of swinging conditions

Study reveals how Titanosaurs, earth’s biggest land animals, survived so long

08/03/2024
The secret to titanosaurs’ remarkable biological success may be how they merged the best of both reptile and mammal characteristics to form a unique way of life

AI has a large and growing carbon footprint

08/03/2024
The emissions come from the infrastructure associated with AI, such as building and running the data centres that handle the large amounts of information required to sustain these systems

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