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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has released this reproduction of the emblem for the first Skylab mission. The Skylab is a 100-ton experimental space station including a laboratory for medical, scientific and technological experiments. The emblem, by artist Kelly Freas, shows the Skylab silhouetted against the earth’s globe, which in turn is eclipsing the…
Scientists have unveiled new details of a colossal black hole 53 million lightyears away first photographed by the earth-wide Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2017. The feat provided the first visual evidence that black holes exist, confirming a fundamental prediction of general relativity. In a new paper published on January 18, EHT scientists have reported…
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“We will each write a ghost story”, said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. And so on a cold and rainy supposedly summer night in 1816, four friends inspired by German ghost stories, gathered to write one. Among them, a young Mary Shelley, consumed by the idea of creating a story that would “curdle…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Wetlands 1 / 5 | What is a wetland? A dry arid region A region covered by water with its distinct ecosystems An elevated plateau-like region A man-made reservoir A wetland is a place in which the land is covered by water—salt, fresh, or somewhere in between—either seasonally…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo Credit: AP NASA’s newest climate satellite rocketed into orbit Thursday to survey the world’s oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail. SpaceX…
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Scientists attribute the exceptional warming to the combined effects of El Niño. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The world last month experienced the warmest January on record, with the global mean temperature for the past 12 months exceeding the 1.5° Celsius threshold, according to the European climate agency. However, this does not imply a…
View of Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain A research group at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have designed a new image-correction technique capable of getting better images during the study of cold atoms or atoms at absolute zero temperature. The technique can get rid of 50% unwanted interference fringes…
A woman looks on as she squats with a dog beside houses destroyed by last year’s earthquake, in Hatay, Turkey, February 5, 2024. The magnitude 7.8 tremor that struck in the early hours of February 6, 2023, levelled towns and city swathes in the country’s southeast. It killed more than 53,000 people in Turkey and…
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The lack of guidelines has some eyeing possibilities. | Photo Credit: REUTERS An array of unconventional, privately-funded plans to exploit the moon, including as a site for human ashes and sports-drink containers, has gathered steam in recent years as NASA pushes to make Earth’s natural satellite more accessible. Concerns about possible gaps in U.S. oversight…
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Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh in Parliament on February 06, 2024. The Centre on Monday said that provisions of the newly constituted research board, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), had come into effect and announced the appointment of Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), as interim CEO…
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