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ISRO successfully carries out vacuum ignition trial of cryogenic engine

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ISRO successfully carries out vacuum ignition trial of cryogenic engine

ISRO’s C20 cryogenic engine. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu ISRO on Saturday (February 8, 2025) said that it has successfully carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine powering the upper stage of LVM3, with a multi-element igniter under vacuum conditions, which simulates the engine ignition in the vacuum condition of…

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37th Kerala Science Congress to begin in Thrissur on Saturday 

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37th Kerala Science Congress to begin in Thrissur on Saturday 

The 37th Kerala Science Congress will begin on Saturday at Kerala Agricultural University, Vellanikkara, Thrissur. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will officially inaugurate the event at M.S. Swaminathan Hall at 10 a.m. The Chief Minister will also present prestigious awards, including the Chief Minister’s Gold Medal, the Dr. S. Vasudev Award, Science Literature Awards, and the…

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Sci-five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On the first cat in space

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Sci-five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On the first cat in space

A cat looks through the dusty screen door of a house undamaged by the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Q: How many female cats were trained for the space flight that included Félicette? Félicette was the first cat to travel to space, launching on…

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IIT Bombay researchers find a technique to measure degradation of iron coatings

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IIT Bombay researchers find a technique to measure degradation of iron coatings

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Bombay have come up with a new technique that can measure the rate of iron coating degradation. This discovery claims to hold the potential of benefiting the steel industry. Metals corrode with time, and some metals corrode more than others, like iron rusts…

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Chandrayaan-4 to launch in 2027: Jitendra Singh

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Chandrayaan-4 to launch in 2027: Jitendra Singh

Union Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI India will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission to bring back samples of moon rocks to the Earth in 2027, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Chandrayaan-4 will involve at least two separate launches of the heavylift LVM-3…

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Kashmir’s saffron growers experiment with indoor farming as climate pressures mount

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Kashmir’s saffron growers experiment with indoor farming as climate pressures mount

Kashmiri farmer and saffron producer Ghulam Mohammad Mir and his family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at his residence in Kashmir’s Pampore October 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms that grow the…

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Scamming science: predatory journals and the academic rat race

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Scamming science: predatory journals and the academic rat race

The story so far An editorial titled ‘Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey’ was jointly published across the world’s most prestigious scientific journals in their first issue of January 2025. Unusually, all leading journals such as Nature, Science, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, NMJI (and many more)…

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January 2025 was warmest on record despite La Nina’s cooling effect: EU climate agency

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January 2025 was warmest on record despite La Nina’s cooling effect: EU climate agency

Although signs of La Nina were visible in the central Pacific, ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific remained above normal, suggesting that the shift toward La Nina may be slowing or stalling. | Photo Credit: AFP The planet experienced its warmest January on record last month despite the development of La Nina, a climate pattern…

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A question for the AI age: do machines and humans learn the same way?

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A question for the AI age: do machines and humans learn the same way?

The dramatic surge of artificial intelligence (AI) has also made visible the machines humming underneath to make its applications possible. From their origins in being able to separate data into different groups, AI today excels at too many tasks to count. Just in 2024, smartphones have started to be sold with AI models built into…

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