The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) experiment in Minnesota in the U.S. is shedding light on one of nature’s most elusive particles: neutrinos. The experiment was designed to determine the role of neutrinos in the evolution of the cosmos. It Read More …
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Rapid Apophis Mission for Security and Safety (Ramses)
The European Space Agency (Esa) has announced funding for preparatory work on the Rapid Apophis Mission for Security and Safety (Ramses). Under this mission a spacecraft will be sent to the asteroid 99942 Apophis to glean information about its size, Read More …
Asia’s first health research-related “Pre-clinical Network facility”
Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia’s first health research-related “Pre-clinical Network facility” at the Translational Health Science & Technology Institute” (THSTI), Faridabad. Genetically Defined Human Associated Microbial Culture Collection (Ge-HuMic) facility
Centre of excellence on Classical and Quantum Communications for 6G
The Secretary (Telecom) has inaugurated a centre of excellence on “Classical and Quantum Communications for 6G” at IITM Research Park, Chennai. This is a sub-centre of Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCoE)-India and it will spearhead the development and deployment of Read More …
CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology
A recent study shows CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology exhibiting some of the least environmental impact among solar cell technologies in India,
James Webb telescope reveals weather on cosmic brown dwarfs
A team of astronomers have used James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map the weather on a pair of brown dwarfs. Infrared light was analysed from the pair and its variation over time was measured. Brown dwarfs Planets and stars
COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024
Indian astrophysicist Prahlad Chandra Agrawal has been awarded the COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024.
Wolbachia bacteria
Researchers from Shenyang Agricultural University (SAU), China have shown that Wolbachia bacteria had manipulated the wasp Encarsia formosa to entirely get rid of its males. Key findings Wolbachia bacteria (Source: The Hindu)
Helium leaks on the Starliner spacecraft
American astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry (Butch) Wilmore, are still docked with the International Space Station (ISS) since June 6. Helium
Scientists discover underground cave on the moon
Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. Lorenzo Bruzzone and Leonardo Carrer at the University of Trento in Italy found the cave by using radar to penetrate the opening of a pit on a rocky Read More …
Last Universal Common Ancestor or LUCA
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed more light on LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Key points
NASA’s CHAPEA project
Recently, four volunteer crew members of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) project emerged after a year of living in a habitat replicating the Red Planet Mars. A part of CHAPEA project, it was the first of three Read More …
Leggett Garg Inequality (LGI)
The Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) lab at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru had performed a photonic experiment to demonstrate violation of what are called the Leggett Garg Inequalities (LGI)– — a litmus test for “quantumness” in a system in a Read More …
India’s scientific deep-drilling programme
Scientific deep-drilling is the enterprise of strategically digging boreholes to observe and analyse deeper parts of the earth’s crust.
Mitochondrial donation
Mitochondrial donation is a new IVF-based method that gives people with faulty mitochondrial DNA the chance to have children who are genetically related to them without passing on the faulty DNA. Mitochondrial disease (or Mito)