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In Japan, a third of today’s 18-year-old women may not have children: Study

August 31, 2023 admin

The Nakamise shopping street to Sensoji temple is crowded with visitors and foreign tourists in the Asakusa district in Tokyo Japan, on July 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP About a third of 18-year-old women in Japan may never have children, a government institute said on Wednesday, in the latest data spelling an uphill battle…

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Chandrayaan-3 | Another instrument onboard Pragyan confirms presence of sulphur

August 31, 2023 admin

An illustration of Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover roaming on the lunar surface | Photo Credit: PTI The ISRO on Thursday said that another instrument onboard the Chandrayaan-3 rover Pragyan has confirmed the presence of Sulphur (S) in the south polar region. On August 28, the Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard Pragyan confirmed the presence of…

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In pictures | Rare blue supermoon dazzles stargazers around the globe

August 30, 2023 admin

A rare blue supermoon — the closest full moon of the year — dazzled stargazers Wednesday night. Saturn joined the celestial spectacle, visible alongside the moon, at least where skies were clear. It was the second full moon of August, thus the blue label. And it was unusually close to Earth, therefore a supermoon. The…

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VELC payload aboard Aditya-L1 will send 1,440 images of sun in a day

August 30, 2023 admin

The rehearsal for the launch of the PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the sun, is completed, in Sriharikota on August 30. | Photo Credit: ANI Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), the primary payload on board India’s first dedicated scientific mission to study the sun, Aditya-L1, will be sending 1,440 images of…

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Smooth operation of Liquid Apogee Motor engine critical to Aditya-L1 success

August 30, 2023 admin

Liquid Apogee Motor engines are used for orbital adjustment manoeuvres of satellites/spacecraft in orbit. Photo: X/@ISRO via PTI A small but powerful engine going by the acronym ‘LAM’ will have a critical role to play in the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming Aditya-L1 mission meant to study the sun. The successful operation of LAM,…

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Echolocation: What goes around comes around

August 30, 2023 admin

A bechstein´s bat in flight at night. The mouth is wide open using echolocation for orientation. What do bats, dolphins, and submarines have in common? They use the same technique to get a sense of their surroundings: echolocation. Here, an animal or a device emits sound waves, and listens for their reflections by objects in…

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Chandrayaan-3 | ‘Smile, please!’ Pragyan’s cameras capture Vikram

August 30, 2023 admin

These photos of Vikram lander were taken by Pragyan’s Navigation Camera on August 30, 2023. Photo courtesy ISRO The Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has captured an image of the Vikram lander. Pragyan’s Navigation Camera on Wednesday clicked the image of Vikram. “Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Smile, please! Pragyan Rover clicked an image of Vikram Lander this morning. The image…

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Rare blue supermoon brightens the night sky this week in the closest full moon of the year

August 30, 2023 admin

Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue. It’s dubbed a supermoon because it’s closer to Earth than…

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Pragyan rover confirms sulphur at moon’s south pole, searching for hydrogen

August 29, 2023 admin

An illustration of Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover roaming on the lunar surface. Photo: X/@chandrayaan_3 via PTI Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur on the moon’s surface, near its south pole, and is still searching for hydrogen, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Tuesday. The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard the Chandrayaan-3’s…

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Can India’s One Health Mission help tackle the rising number of infectious diseases? | In Focus podcast

August 29, 2023 admin

Over the past few years, we’ve heard the names of a lot of new diseases – we had the Zika virus, the Nipah virus and even an Ebola scare, while the coronavirus pandemic rocked the country. Scientists estimate that about 60% of all known infectious diseases are zoonotic, meaning they spread from animals to people….

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