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The LVM3-M5 rocket carrying the CMS-03 communication satellite lifts off from the Satish the Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on November 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: X/@isro via ANI The successful launch of India’s CMS-03 (GSAT-7R) satellite aboard the LVM3-M5 rocket on November 2, 2025, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota will provide…
We know gravity as the force that keeps our feet on the ground and makes things fall ‘down’. It also keeps the moon orbiting the earth and holds the planets around the sun. However, when we zoom into the tiniest scales of reality, far smaller than atoms, the rules of physics begin to change. The…
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Researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) are using machine learning and mathematics to tackle one of renewable energy’s toughest problems – how to generate enough clean power without driving up costs or risking grid instability. By developing optimisation models that balance carbon reduction with affordability, their work aims to make India’s transition to solar…
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A kangaroo jumps in a field amidst smoke from a bushfire in Snowy Valley on the outskirts of Cooma, Australia, on January 4, 2020. | Photo Credit: AFP Most animals spend more energy as they move faster. Shorter periods of contact between the foot and the ground require muscles to generate force more quickly, driving…
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A photo of the GSAT-30 communications satellite. | Photo Credit: ISRO On November 2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the GSAT-7R satellite for the Indian Navy. The satellite’s launch mass was 4,410 kg — rendering the launch the heaviest of a communications satellite from Indian soil. For this mission, ISRO used its LVM-3…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh during the inauguration of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) 2025, at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi, on November 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (November 3, 2025) launched the…
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Prime Minister, Narendra Modi with Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh and others during Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) – 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on November 3, 2025. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (November 3, 2025) said India was backing high risk and…
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A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, in Los Angeles. File | Photo Credit: AP For more than a decade, Bill Gates’s views have come to define the respectable centre of climate discourse for the American elite. His words have carried the weight of authority and his ideas have bridged science, capital, and…
Novel scheme by IIT Bombay researchers to control drones can enable complex formation flying using only camera data, without GPS or inter-drone communication. A new control scheme developed by Professor Dwaipayan Mukherjee and research scholar Chinmay Garanayak at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly in coordinated swarms…
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Novel scheme by IIT Bombay researchers to control drones can enable complex formation flying using only camera data, without GPS or inter-drone communication. A new control scheme developed by Professor Dwaipayan Mukherjee and research scholar Chinmay Garanayak at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fly in coordinated swarms…
Read More “IIT Bombay researchers develop GPS-free control scheme for autonomous drone swarms” »