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IN-SPACe has mandated that any hosted-payload owned by an Indian entity and which is being hosted on an Indian or non-Indian satellite will require authorisation from it. Photo courtesy: www.inspace.gov.in/inspace The story so far: The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) on September 17, 2026, released a document titled Norms, Guidelines and Procedures…
Elephants were found to travel long distances to get to a particular tree without foraging on the way. Their single-minded mission was to consume the bark or leaves. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Wild animals have for long been known for their intuitive pharmacological knowledge: orangutans balm their wounds with plants; chimpanzees consume bitter antibacterial…
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The SpaceX Starship rocket lifts off on its 14th test flight from Texas, September 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The Starship engine failure that nearly foiled the orbital debut of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft on its 14th uncrewed test flight may complicate NASA‘s ability to meet its time frame for astronaut missions to the moon….
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A group of Indian school students are among the five winning teams of the 13th edition of the ‘Beamline for Schools’ competition, a physics competition for high school students from all around the world organised by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva. The Indian team, named “attoPION”, comprises Nenavath Abhay Vivek, Sidhartha…
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This article is part of Space Wrap, a round-up of space news and developments in and related to India every month The successful predawn launch of the advanced earth observation satellite EOS-05, on board the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket on September 4, 2026 from the spaceport in Sriharikota brought considerable relief for the Indian…
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OpenAI, on Tuesday (September 29, 2025), unveiled Dots, the company’s new agentic capability that completes a range of tasks for users. The company also introduced several major updates focused on AI agents and developer tools. Dots, which reads like a play on “bots”, are always-on AI agents that can handle complex tasks by accessing your…
The study found that high digital literacy does not necessarily protect individuals from cyber fraud. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has found that financial cybercrime victims in India are often highly educated professionals, challenging the perception that victims are primarily careless, financially…
Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Minister for Industries, IT and AI P.K. Kunhalikutty will formally launch MeitY IndiaAI Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam (CAIK), on Wednesday (September 30). The centre is being established under the IndiaAI Mission of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and the Department of Electronics…
ATLAS is the largest particle collider on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is 46 m long, 25 m high and 25 m wide, and weighs around 7,000 tonnes. Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN Published – September 29, 2026 05:04 pm IST Source link
Each rare disease affects very few people. However, there are around 8,000 rare diseases, and they cumulatively affect hundreds of millions of people. In India, 1,004 rare genetic disorders have been reported so far. It used to be that because the number of patients for a rare-disease drug was very small, so the pharmaceutical industry’s…
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