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SpaceX employees erupted in cheers during a live feed watched by nearly nine million viewers [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Flight six of Starship was seen as a test of whether SpaceX’s first booster catch was pure precision or relied on a stroke of luck after Musk – perhaps inadvertently – disclosed how close the…
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Image used for representation only | Photo Credit: Reuters/Bruno Kelly (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) The Palawa/Pakana community in Australia’s Tasmania has lived in the area for more than 40,000 years, when human ancestors first…
“Can I get a pencil?” “Yes of course,” and the lady at the counter hands me a cigarette. I awkwardly resist and say “I actually do need a pencil.” She judges me a bit and hands me one, probably wondering why an adult might need this. As it turns out, ‘pencil’ is one of many…
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Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the Noongar language of the First Nations people of Perth. When a satellite is in low Earth orbit (2,000 km or less), it experiences orbital decay…
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It’s a big year in America – for wildlife as well as for politics. I’m talking about periodical cicadas. These curious creatures spend most of their lives in the ground, emerging after 13 or 17 years to eat, breed, die and repeat the cycle. For the first time in more than 200 years, two specific…
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This picture released by the Icelandic Coast Guard shows smoke and lava pouring out of a fissure during a surveillance flight above a new volcanic eruption on the outskirts of the evacuated town of Grindavik, May 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP At least three airlines cancelled flights between Australia and Bali this week after a…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Robert Bye Stationary objects experience only the gravitational force. Such objects can be balanced only when the line of action — the line connecting the centre of gravity of the object towards the earth — touches the ground at a point within the base of the object. If the base…
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Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN The Headquarter Maintenance Command of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and Foundation for Science Innovation and Development (FSID), Bengaluru on November 18. The MoA includes jointly identifying problem areas of…
In a significant development for sustainable environmental management, scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have introduced AroTrack, an economical and portable device to accurately detect harmful pollutants such as phenol or benzene in water. Scientists claim that the device can be a game-changer given the increasing water pollution due to industrialisation,…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a satellite payload on behalf of the Indian Space Research Organization lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday (November 18, 2024). | Photo Credit: AP India’s GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20) communication satellite was successfully launched by SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket…
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