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SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship sits on the launch pad after its test flight was aborted when some of the engines failed to ignite, in Starbase, Texas. | Photo Credit: AP SpaceX on Thursday (July 17, 2026) aborted what was to be its first Starship flight since the company went public, abruptly calling it off just…
When a geomagnetically induced current flows through a transformer for long periods, it can saturate the magnetic core, leaving them to overheat and suffer more wear. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Andrey Metelev/Unsplash As countries electrify more of their economies and increasingly interconnect their power grids, understanding space weather has become crucial. One particularly adverse…
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SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship stood ready but was aborted before liftoff, in Starbase, Texas, on July 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so of blasting off on a test flight but some of the engines failed to start, triggering a launch abort. Elon Musk’s company said…
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In his new book Computing in the Age of Decolonization, MIT-based historian Dwaipayan Banerjee uncovers the overlooked history of India’s computing industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, and analyses why the efforts to build self-reliance failed. The story unfolds at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), where scientists found computing to be integral…
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India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket Vikram-1 at the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, Vikram-1 will be launched on July 18, 2026, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. Private space launch company Skyroot Aerospace on Thursday…
The crab, the scientists deduced through dissection, had entered the bottle as a juvenile, fed on small fishes and algae that wafted into the opened mouth of the bottle and survived there for about two months. Picture for representation. | Photo Credit: NiAk Stock In July 2022, a group of scientists recovered a seemingly unremarkable…
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The story so far: As Sonam Wangchuk’s indefinite fast entered its 19th day on Thursday (July 16, 2026), concerns have emerged about his health. As the 59-year-old Mr. Wangchuk protests the continuation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in his position, in solidarity with the protests organised by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), and the central government is yet to engage with them, experts have flagged…
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The intriguing evolution of musicality in humans, that primal form of artistic expression across cultures – that elevates in celebration, is an empath in grief, a rally cry in protests, a companion in solitude – remains enigmatic to scientists. This phenomenon has now become the subject of study of a group of psychologists, who have…
Lestes paloti, the newly described spreadwing damselfly from the Western Ghats of Kerala. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A team of odonatologists has discovered a new species of spreadwing damselfly, Lestes paloti, from the Western Ghats in Kerala. The discovery has been published in the International Journal of Odonatology, an internationally reputed peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research…
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A file photo of the launch of PSLV-C54/EOS-06 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam With about 100 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) personnel quitting the space agency in various centres across the country, the Department of Space (DoS) has issued a memorandum to curb the…
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