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Fact-check: IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti’s comments on cow urine

January 24, 2025 admin

The story so far: On January 15, IIT-Madras director V. Kamakoti said peer-reviewed journals had substantiated the medicinal properties of cow urine. He was speaking at a goshala in West Mambalam in Chennai, on the occasion of ‘Mattu Pongal’, a festive occasion dedicated to cattle. In a media interaction five days later, Dr. Kamakoti listed…

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IIT Madras researchers on a mission to develop technologies for space exploration

January 23, 2025 admin

The microgravity tower at IIT Madras, the fourth largest operational facility in the world, installed on the campus in 2017 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement ExTeM, or Extraterrestrial Manufacturing, a centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras), found mention in the Prime Minister’s Maan Ki Baat recently. The PM said the…

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Space telescopes stumble on rule-breaking black hole in early universe

January 23, 2025 admin

An international team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered a bizarre black hole that may provide insights into the genesis and growth of supermassive black holes. Supermassive black holes are among the most common types of black holes in the universe. Most galaxies contain a…

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In breakthrough, scientists find pressure sensor in fat tissue

January 22, 2025 admin

In a video uploaded to the internet in November, Ardem Patapoutian, who shared the medicine Nobel Prize in 2021, unbuttoned his cuff and pulled up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo near his elbow. As he flexed his arm, the tattoo came to life. The tattoo was of the PIEZO mechanosensitive channel – a class…

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ISRO dispatches crew module for first uncrewed mission of Gaganyaan

January 22, 2025 admin

The model of the Gaganyaan crew module, a spacecraft that will carry a crew of three astronauts into orbit and back to Earth displayed at HAL stall. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of ISRO has dispatched the Crew Module for the first uncrewed mission of Gaganyaan (G1) after successfully completing…

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ISRO dispatches crew module for first uncrewed mission of Gaganyaan

January 22, 2025 admin

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Wuhan keen to shake off pandemic label five years on

January 22, 2025 admin

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the WHO team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, in Hubei province, China, February 3, 2021. | Photo Credit: Reuters Built in just days as COVID-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a…

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The Science Quiz | The twisted possibilities surrounding time travel

January 22, 2025 admin

SpaceX’s Starship flies during its fifth flight test, in Boca Chica, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Questions: 1. The path an object traces as it moves through the four dimensions of spacetime is called its X. When X forms a closed loop in spacetime, the object can be said to be…

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DRDO conducts key test in scramjet technology development

January 21, 2025 admin

This is part of the efforts to develop a long-duration supersonic combustion ramjet technology. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a crucial milestone in the development of next-generation hypersonic munitions, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully demonstrated a cutting-edge active cooled scramjet combustor ground test for 120 seconds for the first time…

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Builders study LA homes that survived blazes

January 21, 2025 admin

A Bank of America building is engulfed in flames along Lake Avenue, Los Angeles, January 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles next to those left standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders, and fire safety specialists around the world. Many experts say luck…

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