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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…
Offshore wind energy is on track to triple globally by 2030, offering a rare climate success story amid global energy uncertainty, according to a new report by Ember, an energy and climate think tank based in the U.K., in collaboration with the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA). Released on October 30, ahead of the United Nations…
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Finance is a significant issue in climate negotiations, as developing countries insist that developed countries pay the costs of adaptation (to deal with climate change impacts). File | Photo Credit: AP To adapt to climate change, developing countries will require anywhere from $310-365 billion (at least ₹27 lakh crore) annually by 2035, according to a…
The objectives of CALIBRE include establishing state-of-the-art infrastructure to harness the power of AI to transform biology research, developing advanced AI tools for basic, applied, and translational biology research, providing education and training to young Indian researchers to apply AI tools in biological research. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The National Centre for Biological Sciences…
The Huntington’s Disease Society of India (HDSI) hosted its second annual meeting at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, in August this year, bringing together patients, caregivers, researchers, and clinicians working on Huntington’s disease (HD). “Working on laboratory models of HD doesn’t give the full picture, but meeting patients has been eye-opening for me and my students,” Sheeba Vasu,…
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