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A person poses for a photo in front of a maple tree displaying fall colours in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo Credit: Charlie Riedel/AP For a moment, close your eyes and imagine yourself in the fall season. The cold, chilly wind kisses your face, and the leaves begin to dance gracefully as they fall off…
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ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan on Tuesday (February 10, 2026) said that India’s space programme was conceived as a people-centric and application-driven initiative, rooted in international cooperation rather than competition. Highlighting six decades of the country’s space journey, Mr. Narayanan said the programme had evolved from modest beginnings into a globally respected ecosystem that serves not…
Two of the world’s most visible private space companies are shifting their attention and resources to moon missions even as both continue to speak about longer term ambitions to Mars and beyond. For many years, the public identity of SpaceX has been fused with settling humans on Mars. Its founder and CEO Elon Musk has…
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Did you know that there was a time in history when diamonds were believed to exist only in India? The hardest natural material on Earth, diamonds were first discovered in India nearly 3,000 years ago. For more than a millennia, India remained the only source of diamonds for the world, a monopoly that the country…
A new species of dragonfly discovered in Kerala has been named Lyriothemis keralensis in appreciation of the State’s rich biodiversity. Researchers have discovered a new species of dragonfly from Kerala and named it Lyriothemis keralensis, recognising the State’s exceptional biodiversity. The species was recorded from Varapetty near Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district, where it inhabits vegetated…
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A fresh year has just started, and we are already a month old. Year endings and startings are always occasions to ponder. Here in IIT Kanpur, where some of us teach, the first week of January is always hectic. A new semester just started, students are back after winter breaks, and people are rushing through…
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A scaled-down model of Chandrayaan-4 was displayed at the ISRO stall at the 8th edition of the Bengaluru Space Expo 2024 (BSX), in association with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in Bengaluru. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Chandrayaan-4 Mission is at least two years away, but the ISRO has identified a location…
A scaled-down model of Chandrayaan-4 was displayed at the ISRO stall at the 8th edition of the Bengaluru Space Expo 2024 (BSX), in association with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), in Bengaluru. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Chandrayaan-4 Mission is at least two years away, but the ISRO has identified a location…
Researchers have discovered a new species of dragonfly from Kerala and named it Lyriothemis keralensis, recognising the State’s exceptional biodiversity. The species was recorded from Varapetty near Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district, where it inhabits vegetated pools and irrigation canals within well shaded pineapple and rubber plantations. The study was conducted by Dattaprasad Sawant of the…
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Palaeontologist Sebastian Apesteguia measures a footprint made by a meat-eating dinosaur some 80 million years ago at the Maragua Syncline, Bolivia, July 21, 2016. | Photo Credit: Reuters Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling…
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