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Artificial intelligence looking at smart city, connected with planet through global mobile internet on phone. AI control city infrastructure, data traffic, ensure safety. World communication concept. | Photo Credit: iStock In 2022, software developers in India contributed to over 24% of AI related projects in GitHub, the most in the world, according to Stanford’s latest…
While pulses inflation hardened in July, other protein sources such as milk (8.6%) and meat and fish also reported higher inflation last month. Image for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Pulses prices may spiral as deficient rain mars sowing Tomato prices may be cooling from recent highs, but pulses could play…
An illustration showing the soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft is set to land on August 23, 2023 around 6.04 p.m. IST. Photo: Twitter/@isro via PTI Since the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14, the ground stations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European…
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An illustration showing ISRO’s ‘Chandrayaan-3’ after the orbit of Landing Module (LM) was successfully reduced to 25 km x 134 km. | Photo Credit: PTI The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is set to touch down on the Moon on August 23 around 6.04 p.m. IST, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)…
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 during its flight to the moon shows the mission emblem and the bucket of the lunar manipulator complex on August 15, 2023. Photo: Roscosmos via Reuters Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the Moon after it spun into an uncontrolled orbit, the country’s Roscosmos…
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The ISRO on August 20 said it successfully reduced the orbit of the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Lander Module (LM), further bringing it nearer to the moon. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its second and final deebost in the early hours of August 20. The Indian Space…
The ISRO on August 20 said it successfully reduced the orbit of the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Lander Module (LM), further bringing it nearer to the moon. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its second and final deebost in the early hours of August 20. The Indian Space…
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, on August 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters An “abnormal situation” occurred at Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft on August 20 as it was preparing to transfer to its pre-landing orbit, Russia’s national…
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Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at the University of British Columbia’s BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins — natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker if you bite into an unripe fruit — to a layer of wood dust, you can create a filter…
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Climate change caused by human activity under a high-emissions scenario may halve the area covered by glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the end of the century, as per a study published in Nature. This will have marked ecological and societal cascading consequences, as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitats. However,…
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