Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
Science
Health workers wait to admit patients at a Nipah isolation ward at the Medical College, in Kozhikode on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI Since May 2018 when Kerala reported the first Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode district, there have been three more outbreaks of Nipah virus including the latest one in late-August 2023. For reasons still…
Read More “Why Nipah virus outbreaks are occurring only in Kerala” »
Supernova remnant SNR 0454-67.2 is likely the result of a Type Ia supernova explosion. In the late 1990s, scientists studied the light from such supernovae to find that the universe’s expansion is accelerating. | Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Can you get rid of all the energy in the room in which you are reading this?…
Read More “The cosmological constant problem is one of the biggest crises in physics” »
he fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission has been performed successfully in the early hours of September 15. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@isro The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission has been performed successfully in the early hours of September 15. “Aditya-L1 Mission: The fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre (EBN#4) is performed successfully. ISRO’s ground stations…
Read More “Fourth Earth-bound manoeuvre of the Aditya-L1 mission performed successfully” »
Image used for representative purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images GUWAHATI A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed pharmaceutical and food products from tea factory wastes. Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages on the globe with the world tea consumption expected to rise…
Read More “IIT Guwahati researchers turn tea factory waste to pharma products” »
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Mathematicians 1 / 5 | Who is often called the “Father of Geometry”? Galileo Galilei Euclid Pythagoras Archimedes Euclid, often called the father of geometry, changed the way we learn about shapes with his 13-book series, Euclid’s Elements. He used basic ideas called axioms or postulates to create…
Read More “This week’s Sci-Five quiz is on famous mathematicians.” »
Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) Chairman Pawan Kumar Goenka with former ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar at the International Conference on Space 2023, in Bengaluru on September 14, 2023. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will facilitate transfer of technology (ToT) for the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to one private company. In…
Read More “23 private companies in race for SSLV tech transfer from ISRO” »
Questions: 1. A German engineer built the first train powered by electricity in 1879. He also founded a company that is a major electrical engineering multinational corporation today, and his name has been adopted as the SI unit of __________ ___________. Name the engineer and fill in the blanks. 2. In April 1869, George Westinghouse,…
Read More “The Science Quiz | Make way for the railway technologies express” »
On February 6, 2023, a pair of powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, leaving destruction in their wake. The latest known death toll is 50,000; more than a lakh other people were injured in 11 provinces. At least 1.5 crore people and 40 lakh buildings were affected; some 3.45 lakh apartments were destroyed. The earthquakes…
Read More “Study traces Turkey quake to interrupted ‘chat’ between fault lines” »
The story so far: Scripting history, the Chandrayaan-3 lander landed in the south polar region of the moon on August 23 at 6:03 pm IST, making India the first country to successfully soft-land in that area. The Vikram lander along with the Pragyan rover have since completed a small suite of surface tests. China’s Yutu-2…
Read More “Chandrayaan vs. Chang’e: How different are India’s and China’s lunar missions?” »
The story so far: In a historic feat, the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down near the south pole of the moon on August 23. The landing follows on the heels of Russia’s failure to land its Luna-25 on the lunar south pole after it crashed owing to an engine malfunction. This was closely followed on September 2,…
