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A size comparison of spaghetti and newly-invented nanopasta. | Photo Credit: Nanoscale Advances journal (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!) Scientists at the University College London and Imperial College London have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti,…
Preview: November 21 was 61 years since the birth of the Indian space programme. On this date in 1963, scientists launched a Nike-Apache sounding rocket from Thumba in Kerala. These rockets helped the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) master the solid propellant technology powering India’s launch vehicles today. Around the same time as this anniversary,…
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Pirate is standing holding a drawn sword with a parrot perched on hand | Photo Credit: Getty Images Life at sea was difficult as the pirates had to know how to navigate every inch of their vessels during bright sunny daytime and pitch black night. An excellent night vision is necessary to battle the opponents…
When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati (in Ohio). My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end up in China. In fact, if I had been able to dig straight through the planet, I would have come out in the Indian Ocean, about 1,800…
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Ripples of wind pass through the Indian tricolour flutters near Wagah village, Pakistan, July 24, 2018. | Photo Credit: Naveed Ahmed A: The fluttering of flags is a dynamic phenomenon involving three forces. The first one is a constant pulling force due to the rope used to tie the flag to a pole. The second…
Image used for representation only. | Photo Credit: ANI The story so far: The Union Cabinet on Monday, November 25, 2024, approved the ‘One Nation One Subscription’ (ONOS) initiative for centralised access to research articles and journal publication for government higher education institutions and research and development (R&D) laboratories of the central government. The central…
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The blue spot at the centre of the red ring is an isolated neutron star in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Neutron stars are formed after heavy stars go supernova, in the process emitting gamma rays alongside radiation at other energies. | Photo Credit: ESA and NASA The Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) telescope is a…
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The colorful trompo on a brown background With just a flick of the wrist, a spinning top balances on its tiny tip, seemingly defying gravity. This dance of physics introduces us to the concept of angular momentum, a force that keeps it upright and steady. The physics of spin To understand the magic behind a…
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The story so far: The air quality in the national capital has been struggling to recover from the lows to which it dropped right after Deepavali despite the implementation of GRAP stage IV measures, the active intervention of the Supreme Court, and stop-gap measures by the Delhi government. Many fingers are currently pointed at the…
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Imagine yourself in a mathematics class. The teacher is working out a problem on the board, and deftly arrives at an answer and starts explaining it to the class. Even while they were at it, you noticed that a mistake had been committed along the way, thereby arriving at an erroneous answer. Would you raise…
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