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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams | Photo Credit: AP The organisers of the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) have announced the participation of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, one of the world’s most accomplished explorers and a global icon of space science, at its 2026 edition to be held on the Kozhikode beach. The festival will be held…
Von Daeniken addresses a press conference in Bern, Switzerland, in October 1999. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Daeniken, who built a lucrative career on his argument, rubbished by scientists and archaeologists, that humanity owes much of its development to the intervention of extraterrestrial beings, has died aged 90. Chariots of the…
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On May 18, 2025, the PSLV-C61 mission was a rare launch failure for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The rocket has a reputation as a ‘workhorse’ because ISRO had had a string of successes with it and each of those launches had been thoroughly as intended. Today, however, ISRO faces two PSLV mission failures…
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On May 18, 2025, the PSLV-C61 mission was a rare launch failure for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The rocket has a reputation as a ‘workhorse’ because ISRO had had a string of successes with it and each of those launches had been thoroughly as intended. Today, however, ISRO faces two PSLV mission failures…
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PSLV-C62 will carry EOS-N1 and 15 co-passenger satellites. Photo: YouTube/ISRO Official The PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 Mission encountered an anomaly during end of the PS3 stage, following lift-off on Monday (January 12, 2026). A detailed analysis has been initiated, ISRO said “Today we attempted the PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 Mission. The PSLV is a four stage vehicle with two solid stages…
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Astronaut and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla speaks at Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue, in New Delhi on January 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI Describing them as future makers of the nation, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla urged youths to start owning dreams, whether in human spaceflight missions or other spheres, and work collectively towards realising them….
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AI models don’t read words; instead they read chunks of characters called tokens. | Photo Credit: Solen Feyissa/Unsplash A: In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically large language models (LLMs) like GPT-5 and Claude, the context window is the maximum amount of text the model can consider at any one time while generating a…
Exactly 20 years ago, forest rangers in Chitwan National Park in Nepal nabbed a farmer, Shikharam Chaudhary, who they believed helped his son bury, in his own backyard, a stolen rhino horn. The rangers interrogated him and waterboarded him in prison. Days later, Chaudhary died. No horn was found. But the large and wealthy global…
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The launch of the PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 mission will be the 105th launch from Sriharikota. File image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: PTI The 22.5 hour countdown for the launch of the PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 Mission commenced at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Sunday (January 11, 2026). The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is…
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What is diabetes? Ask around in your circle, and chances are that there is someone you know who has diabetes. A chronic disease, diabetes is closely related to insulin, a hormone that regulates blood glucose. Diabetes occurs either when enough insulin is not produced by the pancreas, or when the insulin produced cannot be effectively…
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