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Imagine a gaping, fiery crater in the middle of a barren desert — so deep it looks like an entrance to another world. This is the Darvaza gas crater, famously called the “Door to Hell,” blazing in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert. Spanning about 70 metres across and 30 metres deep, it has burned with relentless heat…
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For decades, autism has been understood as a condition that reveals itself in the first few years of life, with clinicians looking for tell-tale difficulties in toddlers. Yet a growing number of people today are diagnosed only in adolescence or adulthood, often after years of struggling in school or with relationships. A new Nature study…
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The government has announced a list of 24 individual scientists and a team as recipients of the second edition of the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) awards, conferred by the Centre for scientific achievement. As in 2024, this year too has four broad categories: the Vigyan Ratna, Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award and Vigyan…
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The Launch Vehcile Mark 3 (LVM3) which will launch the CMS-03 satellite on November 3 at the launch pad in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. on October 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch military communications satellite CMS-03 on November 2 from the Satish Dhawan…
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Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences. The sky is a free resource, and those who live away from city lights are fortunate to enjoy it for their passion, imagination, and even livelihoods. That’s the story of Hanle, a small Himalayan village that hosts one of the darkest skies in the world. Its Bortle-1 skies…
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A hummingbird feeds on the nectar of a flower in Boquete, Chiriqui Province, Panama, 2020. Hummingbirds are known for their ability to hover mi-air by rapidly flapping their wings 15 to 80 times per second, depending on the bird’s size. | Photo Credit: AFP For decades, scientists and engineers have puzzled over how insects and…
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Two centuries after its discovery, the simple yet revolutionary molecule benzene continues to shape our world. From being the gas that illuminated London in the 19th century to the cutting-edge materials it has afforded in the 21st, benzene’s journey is a compelling narrative of scientific ingenuity, industrial might, and a growing awareness of the profound…
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The H3 (7th) rocket by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), carrying a new HTV-X cargo transfer spacecraft, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Tanegashima island, on October 26, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP Japan’s space agency on Sunday (October 26, 2025) successfully launched its new flagship H3 rocket carrying an unmanned…
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Nylon is everywhere… well, almost. You probably don’t realise it, but it surrounds us in our homes, schools, workplaces, transportation, and leisure activities. Well, we can go so far as to say that almost everyone of us begin our day — each and everyday — with nylon. This is because the bristles of the toothbrush…
The story so far: In two papers published in Nature on October 22, researchers from Google, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech reported what they called a verifiable display of quantum advantage using the company’s Willow quantum processor. That is, the teams said they have shown that Willow clearly outperforms existing supercomputers on solving a specific problem….
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