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A view of the LHC tunnel. Since starting operations in 2009, the LHC’s high point remains the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 | Photo Credit: CERN The heatwave sapping Europe this June does not spare CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), whose dull grey buildings give little hint of the underground that sets…
Dr Samira Sheikh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Obaid Siddiqi Lectures, a series of annual lectures delivered by the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS, will be held in the city this week. The lectures will be delivered by Dr. Samira Sheikh, a historian of…
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There is nothing to write home about the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) performance in the first half of 2026, with just one launch in January, the PSLV-C62 mission/EOS-N1 mission that ended in a failure. However, on the positive side, the anomaly in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) seems to have been resolved with…
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Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder & CEO of Skyroot Aerospace, spoke to The Hindu after the Hyderabad-based private space launch company announced the launch window for Vikram-1’s first test flight named Mission Aagaman from July 12 to August 4, 2026. The Vikram-1 launch vehicle is India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket designed to carry small satellites…
Cancer is a group of diseases where abnormal cells grow uncontrollably, invading nearby tissues and sometimes spreading to distant organs of the body. In India, an estimated 1.87 million new cases are likely to be diagnosed in 2026, which means 1 in 9 Indians reading this article are at a lifetime risk of developing cancer….
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Twelve Indian researchers across three countries have discovered a rare, nonconformist radio galaxy, shaped like a bow and arrow and 1.8 million light years wide, located approximately 2 billion light years from Earth. A light year is about 5.88 trillion miles. A radio galaxy, powered by supermassive black holes at its core, is a type of…
In cricket, few strategies are as deeply ingrained as the left-right batting combination: where of the two batters at the crease, one is left-handed and other right-handed. Coaches, commentators, and even players have argued that every time the batters switch ends when they run, the bowler and captain have to adjust their tactics and field…
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India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket is all set for its maiden launch. On July 2, private space launch company Skyroot Aerospace, based in Hyderabad, announced that the launch window for Vikram-1’s first test flight, named Mission Aagaman, is between July 12 and August 4. It said that Test Flight-1 is targeted for no earlier…
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Language is a key aspect of human life that most likely came up more than a lakh years ago — but linguists still disagree on how exactly it evolved. The influential U.S. linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky proposed that complex modern language emerged suddenly, a theory that many linguists still stick to. But some believe…
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The bacteria shown here is Yersinia pestis, present in the foregut of a flea. Scientists recently found that just 5,500 years ago, these bacteria could be transmitted directly; today, they spread via infected fleas. Photo: Public domain Published – July 01, 2026 02:36 pm IST Source link