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Hyderabad-based Anant Technologies has been partnering with ISRO for several years including in the successful docking mission. ATL’s chairman and managing director P. Subba Rao at the assembly of PSLV C60 which carried two satellites as part of the agency’s SpaDex mission. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Ananth Technologies Limited (ATL), a leading player in…
Hyderabad-based Anant Technologies has been partnering with ISRO for several years including in the successful docking mission. ATL’s chairman and managing director P. Subba Rao at the assembly of PSLV C60 which carried two satellites as part of the agency’s SpaDex mission. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Ananth Technologies Limited (ATL), a leading player in…
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off on its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., on January 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday (January 16, 2025), sending up a prototype satellite to orbit…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the News9 Global Summit, in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (January 16, 2025) congratulated scientists and engineers at ISRO on the successful docking of two satellites in space. “Congratulations to our scientists at @isro and the entire space…
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Dr. V. Narayanan, Secretary DOS, Chairman Space Commission and Chairman ISRO, congratulated the team ISRO after SpaDeX docking, on January 16, 2025 | Photo Credit: X/@ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the early hours of Thursday (January 16, 2025) successfully executed the SpaDeX docking experiment making India the fourth country after the USA,…
Since the start of the 20th century, physicists have discovered a veritable zoo of subatomic particles. Matter can be both wave and particle. If you take the particle route, these subatomic particles are what you could say the universe and everything in it is made of. There are many ways to further categorise them. A…
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Indian National Science Academy’s list of Fellows this year features famous figures such as Sudha Murthy. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The annual list of Fellows announced by the 90-year-old Indian National Science Academy, among the country’s most prestigious assembly of scientists, sticks out this year for its deviation from the academy’s traditional practice. The…
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Fluoride, which also occurs naturally in varying levels, helps restore minerals lost to acid breakdown in teeth. A divisive new study out on January 6 in a US medical journal could reignite debate over fluoride’s safety in water, linking higher exposure levels to lower IQ in children. Published in the Journal of the American Medical…
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Ben Lamm, CEO and Co-Founder of Colossal, pictured above | Photo Credit: Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which claims to be the world’s first de-extinction company, announced $200 million in a Series C financing by TWG Global, jointly led by Mark Walter and Thomas Tull. Colossal launched in September 2021 was founded by software entrepreneur Ben…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander as the primary payload and Japan-based ispace’s Resilience lander as a secondary payload, from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, U.S., January 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched their “rideshare” to…
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