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ISRO targets to launch Venus mission in March 2028 for 112-day journey to planet 

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ISRO targets to launch Venus mission in March 2028 for 112-day journey to planet 

India’s maiden mission to Venus, which is scheduled for launch in March 2028, will embark on a 112-day journey to reach the planet. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s maiden mission to Venus, which is scheduled for launch in March 2028, will embark on a 112-day journey to reach the planet….

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Firm to produce ‘rectangular’ solar cells that require less land

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Firm to produce ‘rectangular’ solar cells that require less land

Solar cells. India has the world’s fifth-largest installed solar power capacity of 84 GW and aims to ramp up to 280 GW by 2030. With land for solar energy parks increasingly becoming a constraint, Solex Energy Limited announced that it plans to manufacture India’s first “rectangular” solar cells.  | Photo Credit: REUTERS With land for solar…

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From analysis to action: should climate scientists engage in activism?

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From analysis to action: should climate scientists engage in activism?

Record-breaking heat waves scorching cities, landslides and floods sweeping away whole towns — the world is currently in the grip of a climate emergency. More than 2,300 local governments in more than 40 countries around the world have declared it. At this time, when climate change is affecting the earth in unprecedented ways, climate scientists…

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Scientists explain Mount Everest’s anomalous growth in new study

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Scientists explain Mount Everest’s anomalous growth in new study

Mount Everest is the earth’s tallest mountain – towering 8.85 km above sea level – and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift that dates back to their birth roughly 50 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent collided with Eurasia, Everest is growing more…

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INCOIS, NCPOR to launch a glider to study Antarctic ocean

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INCOIS, NCPOR to launch a glider to study Antarctic ocean

A file photo of a glider deployed in INCOIS in Arabian Sea. | Photo Credit: Handle @ESSO_INCOIS on X Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) together with the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) will be launching a glider near the country’s research station ‘Bharati’ at Antarctica to study the sea…

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With Earth locked down in 2020, Moon saw cooler days and nights: Study

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With Earth locked down in 2020, Moon saw cooler days and nights: Study

Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Reuters Effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on Earth may have reached the Moon, as lunar temperatures were found to have abnormally dipped during April-May 2020, according to a study. Maximum temperatures on the Earth’s natural satellite fell in this period, while nights were found to be cooler…

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Not just nothing, dark matter quests close in on dire ‘neutrino fog’

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Not just nothing, dark matter quests close in on dire ‘neutrino fog’

On August 28, two members of an experiment at conferences in Chicago and São Paulo had an announcement to make. They were representing about 200 of their colleagues involved in the design, building, and operation of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment located 1.5 km below the earth’s surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South…

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