Category: Science

Concept image of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Source: www.nasa.gov The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday (September 25, 2026) less than three months after launching on the bold mission. Katalyst Space Technologies announced the demise of its three-armed spacecraft named Link. It reentered the…

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A dam in Hosapete, Karnataka, 2020. | Photo Credit: Alka Jha/Unsplash IIT-Madras tool bridges quake science and dam safety An IIT-Madras team evaluated 6,545 dams under India’s National Dam Safety Authority and found standard seismic zone maps misjudge earthquake risks. For Himalayan ‘mega-dams’ like Tehri and Bhakra, site-specific modelling revealed previously projected ground accelerations were…

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Moving past celebratory headlines of space exploration and vaccine manufacturing, this essential e-book asks the tough questions about what it really takes to convert research into industrial capability, and capability industrial into global influence. The Hindu Group’s e-book, The Quest to be a Science Superpower: Where India’s Research Is and What It Will Take to…

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‘Some modern bats can migrate thousands of kilometres and live in very diverse climates on every continent, except Antarctica.’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto From the largest ever study of bat genome and fossils, scientists deduced that the world’s only flying mammals — that account for one fifth of all living mammals — likely originated in…

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On July 15, Raj Rani, 52, an ASHA worker in Yamunagar, Haryana had just completed her tasks for the day when she felt a throbbing pain in her left arm and in the middle of her chin. Since this pain had persisted for a few days, she went to the Community Health Centre (CHC) in…

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