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When Manmohan Singh gave a leg-up for SHAR’s initial space missions

December 27, 2024 admin

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with former ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan during his visit to Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: File Photo Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s association with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), especially the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota (SDSC-SHAR), was marked by support and vision to perpetuate the space missions. During…

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NASA spacecraft ‘safe’ after closest-ever approach to Sun

December 27, 2024 admin

An artist’s conception of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft flying into the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more about the Sun. File. | Photo Credit: via Reuters NASA said on Friday (December 27, 2024) that its Parker Solar Probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing…

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Epimetheus

December 26, 2024 admin

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Epimetheus This image made by the Cassini spacecraft and provided by NASA on March 12, 2006, shows two of Saturn’s moons, the small Epimetheus and smog-enshrouded Titan, with Saturn’s A and F rings stretching across the frame. Launched in 1997, Cassini reached Saturn in 2004 and has been…

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‘Amphibious mouse’ among 27 new species discovered in Peru’s Amazon

December 26, 2024 admin

A specimen of spiny mouse (Scolomys sp.), a species discovered on a Conservation International Rapid Assessment expedition into the Alto Mayo Landscape in Peru, is pictured, June 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters An “amphibious mouse” with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to…

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Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost

December 26, 2024 admin

In this photo released by the Mammoth Museum at the Russian North-Eastern Federal University on Monday, December 23, 2024, University’s Scientists show the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost in Russia’s Siberia. | Photo Credit: AP Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were…

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Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: What has science done for us in 2024?

December 26, 2024 admin

A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: What has science done for us in 2024? A research at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve has revealed that elephants can identify…

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How the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake transformed tsunami science

December 26, 2024 admin

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake of magnitude 9.1 was sourced off the Sumatran coast and was the third largest (by magnitude) in the world since 1900. The source was 30 km below the ocean floor, in the Sunda trench,…

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U.S. and China renew bilateral S&T Agreement | Explained

December 25, 2024 admin

On December 13, China and the U.S. agreed to extend the Agreement between China and USA on Co-operation in Science and Technology for an additional five years, effective from August 27, 2024. They also signed a protocol to amend it. With that the uncertainty over the Agreement’s continuation came to an end. Observers have welcomed…

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Daily Quiz: On life and work of Isaac Newton

December 25, 2024 admin

Daily Quiz: On life and work of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was a member of the Parliament of England from a district that was created in 1603 and abolished in 1950. File START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | Name the book Newton published in 1687 that laid the foundations of classical mechanics. The three-volume…

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