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The satellite riding piggyback on the LVM3-M5 rocket, after a flight journey of about 16-20 minutes, is expected to be separated upon reaching an altitude of about 180 km, ISRO said. Credit: ISRO An ISRO heavylift rocket with communication satellite CMS-03, the ‘heaviest’ to be carried by an Indian launch vehicle and into the Geosynchronous…
Auditory fusion matters in everyday hearing. | Photo Credit: Mohamed Marey/Unsplash Auditory fusion is when two sounds arrive so close together in time that the ear and brain treat them as a single event. The smallest time gap between two sounds that still lets you hear them separately is called the fusion threshold. With very…
Cats give birth to kittens and dogs give birth to puppies. Neither cats nor dogs can give birth to both kittens and puppies. Yet a paper recently published in Nature, by researchers at the University of Montpellier in France, reported such a thing. The group found that females of one ant species, Messor ibericus, routinely…
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View of Mount Chimborazo (a volcano) from the city Riobamba. | Photo Credit: Photo: Wikimedia Commons Space officially begins about 100 km above the Earth’s surface, a boundary known as the Kármán line. But Earth isn’t a perfect sphere — it’s slightly flattened at the poles and bulged at the equator. Because of this shape,…
India’s LVM3 launch vehicle is scheduled to launch the CMS-03 communication satellite in its 5th operational flight (LVM3-M5) on November 02, 2025, from Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: ANI The 24-hour countdown for the launch of over 4,000 kg communication satellite CMS-03 commenced at this spaceport on Saturday (November 1, 2025), ISRO said. The satellite weighing…
Despite inputs from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) that clouds on October 28 in Delhi would be insufficient to coax artificial rain, researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur went ahead with their plan of flying their Cessna-plane and firing 10 kg of a concoction of silver iodide, common salt and rock salt into…
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A northern St Andrew’s cross female spider in Australia building a web with X-shaped stabilimenta seen radiating from the centre. | Photo Credit: Summerdrought (CC BY-SA) A new study in PLoS One has revealed that the mysterious silk decorations in some spider webs may be sophisticated tuning devices that enhance the spider’s ability to locate…
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About 35% of the people of India are vegetarians. | Photo Credit: Dan Gold/Unsplash A report in July 2024 by V. Viallon and coauthors (Scientific Reports 14, 16330) discussed the use of a healthy lifestyle index (HLI) to investigate specific disease outcomes. The authors studied how individual lifestyles were associated with disease outcomes. They used data…
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Scientists have long wondered when the sense of rhythm first takes shape in the developing brain. It’s been a difficult question to answer not least because studying this in foetuses is almost impossible. But when instead scientists turned to premature newborns, whose brains are at roughly the same stage as foetuses in the final weeks…
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The Karman Project is a global non-profit foundation that promotes peace and security in space through international cooperation. How sustainable is space science? This was the subject of a debate at the Karman Week 2025, hosted by SatSure, an earth observation data refinery platform, on Thursday here. “It is time that we mitigate space debris,” said Susmita Mohanty, head of…