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This NASA photo shows NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieving powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet, hovering for several seconds before touching back down on April 19, 2021. The image was taken by the Navigation Camera, or Navcam, aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover from a distance of 210 feet. | Photo…
A small display of Henry Walter Bates’ beetles. | Photo Credit: Natural History Museum: Coleoptera Section / Wikimedia Commons A domain of inquiry, natural history is the interdisciplinary research and study of organisms. When we say organisms, it includes the entire gamut of living beings, be it plants, animals, fungi, and even microorganisms. Natural history…
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The year 2025 witnessed the highest number of launches since the beginning of the space age. There were 328 launch attempts, out of which 315 launches were successful in placing 4,198 known operational satellites. | Photo Credit: Photo for representation only More than 1.5 lakh alerts were issued for Indian satellites during 2025. According to…
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There is a growing movement now to view infertility now just as a purely medical issue, but also as an environmental one. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images We are all aware of the fact that the use of plastics causes harm to our environment, and dangerously so. But not…
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The rind is the greenish outer layer that we throw out when we cut the fruit for its red interior. | Photo Credit: reportperm/Unsplash The summer season is on and the fruit market is flush with the watermelon (‘turbuz’ in Hindi, ‘vathakkai’ in Tamil, ‘tormuj’ in Bengali, and Citrullus lanatus in botany), with its green-yellow…
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ISRO conducts the Second Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-02) for Gaganyaan at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, on April 10 | Photo Credit: ANI The crew module, where the astronauts reside, orbits the earth at a high velocity of about 7,800 m/s. When the module returns to the earth and re-enters the atmosphere, it…
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The human brain takes a different approach to traditional computers. Every synapse — the junctions where neurons communicate — both stores and processes information locally, which means memory and processing are fused inside the same biological hardware. | Photo Credit: DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aec2324 Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired…
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Researchers have found excess sugar causes a modification to build up on a protein called Creb3. | Photo Credit: Sweet Life/Unsplash High blood sugar affects cognitive function via lactate Researchers have found excess sugar causes a modification to build up on a protein called Creb3, which then activates a gene that boosts the production of…
Saturated fats are found in butter, red meat, and full-fat dairy. | Photo Credit: Sorin Gheorghita/Unsplash — Aravind N., Hyderabad A: Simply speaking, the two kinds of fats affect the body’s LDL cholesterol differently. LDL is the kind that clogs arteries. Published – April 16, 2026 08:00 am IST Source link