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The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 75 crew members: NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov, and Anna Kikina onboard, Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. AP/PTI(AP07_14_2026_000436B) | Photo Credit: NASA/BILL INGALLS NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts on Tuesday (July 14, 2026)…
Astronomers have spotted a complex sugar called erythrulose in a giant interstellar molecular cloud near the centre of the Milky Way. | Photo Credit: John Fowler/Unsplash A: It is possible, though we don’t yet know for sure. In fact, astronomers recently found a complex sugar in deep space for the first time. Using powerful radio…
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Since scientists discovered jumping genes in maize in 1950, they have known that bits of DNA can move around the genome, mostly within the cell nucleus. Scientists have also found evidence of genes having jumped across species. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany have reported a remarkable observation: they…
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon attends a press conference ahead of the Soyuz MS-29 expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on July 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Anil Menon, a NASA astronaut of Indian heritage, is scheduled to begin an eight-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), launching…
Hindi and Tamil differ in far more than just vocabulary. Languages differ in how they are organised, and these differences are not spread evenly around the world. In some regions, neighbouring languages like Basque and Spanish differ dramatically from one another. In others, they share many of the same features, like Tamil and Kannada. A…
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The U.K. and most of Europe experienced two unprecedented heatwaves in May and June, with monthly records set at 35.1°C and 37.7°C, respectively, in England. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 2,700 people could have died in England and Wales as a result of heatwaves that struck in May and June, according…
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The disappearance of a single pollinator species, such as a butterfly, could have far-reaching consequences for honey production and crops dependent on pollination, including coffee. | Photo Credit: MUSTAFAH KK Environmentalist and president of Bidar Parisara Vani, Shailendra Kavadi, has called for large-scale tree plantation in Kalaburagi district in Karnataka to mitigate rising temperatures and…
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From the moment he was announced as one of the four astronaut-candidates for India’s maiden human spaceflight programme Gaganyaan, Air Force test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla has been a prolific science communicator. His social media feed is full of amusing yet enlightening quips, videos, and posts about what going to space has been like for him. In his…
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A visual abstract of the technology described in the study. The metal-organic framework is the larger molecule in the middle. | Photo Credit: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2026 In 2023, Japan began a decades-long and controversial process — it began releasing treated wastewater from the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. The water…
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A single mosquito carrying malaria parasites can infect dozens of people. A single gene in that mosquito can spread slowly through its population. Gene drives aim to bend this inheritance in our favour by ensuring that a particular genetic change passes to far more than half of the offspring, helping reduce the disease burden. Whether…
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