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Watch | Chandrayaan-3’s journey from the Moon’s orbit to its surface

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Watch | Chandrayaan-3’s journey from the Moon’s orbit to its surface

File picture of Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) landed on the Moon on August 23, 2023. This monumental achievement firmly cemented India’s position as one major players in the space community. Since then Chandrayaan-3 has found sulphur, a temperature difference of 50°C between the surface and 10…

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Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System

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Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System

In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On close inspection, the rocks turned out to be from outer space: lumps of rubble billions of years old, left over from the dawn of the Solar System….

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Bottleneck in human evolution explained using a novel genomic analysis technique

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Bottleneck in human evolution explained using a novel genomic analysis technique

A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human population that almost wiped out the chance for humankind as it exists today. | Photo Credit: AFP A novel genomic analysis technique has helped reveal the reasons for a ‘bottleneck’ in the growth of the human…

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Indonesia’s low-cost watch on antimicrobial resistance

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Indonesia’s low-cost watch on antimicrobial resistance

Indonesian researchers have tested a cheaper way of monitoring antimicrobial resistance that could be a key tool for developing countries. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Indonesian researchers have tested a cheaper way of monitoring antimicrobial resistance that could be a key tool for developing countries. Indonesian researchers have tested a cost-effective, relatively…

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Science This Week | India launches Aditya-L1 to study the sun, Pragyan safely parked and more

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Science This Week | India launches Aditya-L1 to study the sun, Pragyan safely parked and more

Aditya L1, India’s first ever solar mission, was launched by the ISRO on Saturday at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikotta in Andhra Pradesh. The spacecraft will be positioned within a ‘haloo orbit’ around Lagrange point 1 (L1) in the Sun-Earth system, located approximately 1.5 million km away from Earth. Study will be conducted of Chromospheric and coronal heating,…

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Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions − but nobody’s in charge of cleaning it up

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Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions − but nobody’s in charge of cleaning it up

This file computer-generated image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on April 15, 2008 shows trackable objects in orbit around Earth. – The United States said November 8, 2021 it was investigating a “debris-generating event in outer space” after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation. |…

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Crashed Russian mission left a crater on the moon, NASA images show

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Crashed Russian mission left a crater on the moon, NASA images show

A combination picture of NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) images shows the surface of the moon on June 27, 2020 and August 24, 2023, before and after the appearance of a crater, likely the impact site of Russia’s Luna-25 mission, in these screengrabs obtained from a GIF image released August 31, 2023. | Photo Credit:…

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Indian-American scientist hopes to be first woman to make stratospheric jump in 2025

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Indian-American scientist hopes to be first woman to make stratospheric jump in 2025

An Indian-American scientist, Swati Varshney, is one of the three skydivers who is set to prepare for the first-ever jump from the stratosphere by a woman hoping to break the world record. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: M.A.SRIRAM/ The Hindu An Indian-American scientist, Swati Varshney, is one of the three skydivers who is set…

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In Japan, a third of today’s 18-year-old women may not have children: Study

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In Japan, a third of today’s 18-year-old women may not have children: Study

The Nakamise shopping street to Sensoji temple is crowded with visitors and foreign tourists in the Asakusa district in Tokyo Japan, on July 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP About a third of 18-year-old women in Japan may never have children, a government institute said on Wednesday, in the latest data spelling an uphill battle…

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