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NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission, with the next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion crew capsule, sits on Pad 39B ahead of the launch of the Artemis II mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The NASA Artemis II mission…
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In this 2024 image provided by U.S. NOAA Fisheries, a Rice’s whale is visible from onboard the NOAA Twin Otter aircraft off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. | Photo Credit: AP One of the world’s rarest whales lives in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil…
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Be it our phones, tablets or our laptops — everyday, we interact with various digital devices designed to make our lives easier. Especially since the pandemic, even children have been exposed to this electric world at a very young age. Earlier, parents would desperately brandish toys to distract crying children, now they tamp down tantrums…
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Certain kinds of mutations in gene TP53, which encodes the p53 tumour suppressor protein, often dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, could perhaps be making acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) one of the hardest cancers to treat, new research has found. The study, led by Caner Saygin, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Medicine, was recently…
In the 1960s Ed Dwight was the first Black astronaut candidate — but he never got his chance to go to the Moon. He said he’s now living out that once-denied dream vicariously through Victor Glover, who is set to make history on the Artemis 2 Moon mission that could take off as soon as…
The NASA Artemis II mission is set to launch no earlier than April 1, 2026. If the lift-off is successful, the giant rocket will send humans to near the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In so doing, it will make an important milestone for the U.S. space programme. Its…
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In an experiment with six pucks with narrow channels suspended in a bath of E. coli, all pucks spun clockwise. Scientists said this marks the first step towards developing ‘chiral fluids’. | Photo Credit: Grober, D., Dhar, T., Saintillan, D. et al., Nat. Phys. (2026) Escherichia coli bacteria are the workhorse of microbiology labs. These…
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Antaya University, Türkiye, researchers have used E. coli bacteria as a versatile factory to produce useful compounds such as insulin. | Photo Credit: Public domain We know photosynthesis is a feature of plants which absorb sunlight and use the energy to convert atmospheric CO2into glucose. While sunlight peaks in the 400-700 nm region (of wavelengths),…
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A Spanish galleon (right, foreground) might carry dozens of animals to provide fresh eggs, milk, and meat for the first few weeks of a voyage. | Photo Credit: Public domain — Prabhakar Jonnalagadda A: To preserve a food item meant to remove moisture, increase acidity and/or to use natural preservatives. Meats and fish would be…
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Researchers have shown a loophole in the no-cloning theorem by creating perfect copies using ideas from information theory. The protocol is illustrated here. | Photo Credit: Image created with Sonnet 4.6 Quantum physics has a rule called the no-cloning theorem that prevents you from making a perfect copy of an unknown quantum state. It has…
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