Aditya-L1: its functioning and purpose
Aditya L1 will function as a space weather station. Understanding space weather is an international issue, and the data from the spacecraft will aid in making models and predicting storms in advance Source link
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Bottleneck in human evolution explained using a novel genomic analysis technique
A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human population that almost wiped out the chance for humankind as it exists today. | Photo Credit: AFP A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human…
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After Pragyan, lander Vikram also put in sleep mode
Image of Vikram lander released by Indian Space Research Organisation. File | Photo Credit: ANI After the Chandrayaan-3’s rover Pragyan, the lander Vikram has been put into sleep mode. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday said that it had put Vikram into sleep mode around 8 a.m. “Vikram Lander is set into sleep…
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Indonesia’s low-cost watch on antimicrobial resistance
Indonesian researchers have tested a cheaper way of monitoring antimicrobial resistance that could be a key tool for developing countries. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Indonesian researchers have tested a cheaper way of monitoring antimicrobial resistance that could be a key tool for developing countries. Indonesian researchers have tested a cost-effective, relatively…
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Vikram lander makes soft-landing on Moon again, successfully undergoes hop test: ISRO
File picture of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander | Photo Credit: ISRO ISRO on Monday said the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 successfully underwent a hop test when it made the soft-landing again on the lunar surface. On command it (Vikram lander) fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a…
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Crocodiles yield to flower power, study finds
Muggers or Indian marsh crocodiles at the Savitri River in Maharashtra | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Flowers of a specific kind enchant the mugger or Indian marsh crocodile, “underestimated” like all other reptiles because of the small size and simple structure of their brain, a new study has found. Observing the muggers (Crocodylus palustris) of Savitri…
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Scientists test menstrual products with blood for the first time, and find surprises
Blood really is thicker than water – yet makers of menstrual products have traditionally used saline to estimate how much liquid they can hold. The capacity to absorb of traditional menstrual products is a common way to measure the amount of blood lost. Clinicians use it to diagnose heavy menstrual bleeding, which affects roughly a…
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Science This Week | India launches Aditya-L1 to study the sun, Pragyan safely parked and more
Aditya L1, India’s first ever solar mission, was launched by the ISRO on Saturday at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikotta in Andhra Pradesh. The spacecraft will be positioned within a ‘haloo orbit’ around Lagrange point 1 (L1) in the Sun-Earth system, located approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth. Study will be conducted of Chromospheric and coronal heating,…
ISRO conducts first Earth-bound manoeuvre of Aditya-L1
ISRO said the satellite is healthy and operating nominally. | Photo Credit: X/@isro A day after India’s first solar observatory mission which was launched, the first Earth-bound firing to raise the orbit of the Aditya-L1, was performed on Sunday. The ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network Work (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru performed the manoeuvre. The space agency said the…
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Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan
In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the Middle Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same clade as the long-necked…
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