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Researchers have found that male octopuses have a specialised arm, known as the hectocotylus, as a sophisticated sensory organ to identify females. | Photo Credit: H. Zell (CC BY-SA) A: Octopuses often live solitary lives and rarely encounter mates, which means they need to be very good at recognising other octopuses if they are to…
More than 50 years after humans first flew around the Moon, Artemis astronauts will repeat the feat on Monday (April 6, 2026) and use the most basic instrument to study it: their eyes. Despite the technological advancements since the Apollo missions, NASA still relies on the eyesight of its astronauts to learn more about the Moon….
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Known as the Mission MITRA (Mapping of Interoperable Traits and Response Assessment), the study will be conducted until April 9. File image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: PTI@NASA The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the launch of a mission in Ladakh to examine the physiological, psychological and operational dynamics of…
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Migration is the movement of birds across long distances, from temperate to tropical regions during winters, and vice versa. The birds move to areas with more or increasing resources and to stay within the climate niche to which they are adapted. They also migrate short distances up and down mountains around the world. And a…
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This photo provided by NASA shows the moon seen from a window on the Orion spacecraft Integrity during the Artemis II mission on April 3, 2026 | Photo Credit: AP The Artemis astronauts were gearing up Saturday (April 4, 2026) for their long-anticipated lunar flyby, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph…
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Does Jupiter have a “voice”? When we say discovery of Jupiter’s “voice”, it corresponds to the discovery that the planet Jupiter is a strong source of radio waves. This discovery was made in the 1950s by two scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C. – Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth Linn Franklin – when…
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NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both…
NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both…
ISRO chairman V. Narayanan receiving the K.P.P. Nambiar Award 2025 instituted by the IEEE Kerala section in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday | Photo Credit: Special arrangement V. Narayanan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Saturday described the Artemis II mission of US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as “a great effort” and…
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This screengrab from a NASA live broadcast video footage shows NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman (L) and NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover working inside the Orion spacecraft as they pass the halfway point between Earth and the Moon on the way to their planned lunar flyby in the Orion…
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