BENGALURU: Isro and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) have signed an MoU to collaborate on space medicine research aimed at supporting India’s future human spaceflight missions.The agreement will focus on studying how the human body responds to long-duration space travel and developing medical systems to keep astronauts healthy in orbit, Isro said…
Later today, NASA is going to release a major update on the Artemis II program as they prepare for the first human beings to fly beyond Low Earth Orbit, the first step on the journey to return to Deep Space. According to NASA, they will announce an updated launch schedule as well as updated information…
An Indian-origin high school student in Canada has gained national recognition after winning a prestigious data science competition for her innovative use of artificial intelligence to predict crop diseases. Gurnoor Kaur, a Grade 11 student at Central Peel Secondary School in Ontario, secured first place at the National High School Big Data Challenge organised by…
A King penguin colony (AP photo) A new study has found that king penguins are breeding earlier as global temperatures rise, and the shift is helping improve their breeding success.Researchers studying about 19,000 king penguins on a sub-Antarctic island chain found that the birds are now starting their breeding cycle 19 days earlier than they…
According to NASA, Lake Untersee is an underground body of water resting in the snow-capped peaks of East Antarctica. Hidden like a time capsule, it provides scientists with a necessary resource with which to look back and study how life came to be formed. It has a very unique chemistry (i.e. pH = 10.4), and…
Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever seen, appears to be stuffed with methanol, an alcohol you might find in a lab, not your drink. Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers reportedly measured methanol at levels far…
When, during the International Space Station (ISS) mission, astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stretched from eight days to over nine months, a critical question emerged at that time: why did NASA lack a dedicated emergency rescue plan? According to reports, the Daily Mail quoted that the agency faced a backfire when Boeing’s Starliner suffered…
When we want to weigh something, the process is simple. We place it on a weighing machine or on a traditional balance. The number appears and we instantly know how heavy the object is. But imagine a far stranger question. What if the thing you want to weigh is the very ground beneath the scale?…
There are some scientific discoveries that feel immediately sensible. Water is wet, fire is hot, politicians lie. And then there are discoveries that sound as though a group of slightly overworked researchers accidentally wandered into a Transformers writers’ room and decided to take the script seriously. Bumblebee queens, it turns out, can survive underwater for…
A routine space mission could turn into a historic ordeal. In May 1991, Sergei Krikalev blasted off for what was meant to be a standard five-month mission to the Mir space station. He was to perform experiments, maintain equipment, and keep the station in working order. Everything seemed ordinary at the time.Back on Earth, the…
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A, a 600-kilogram satellite launched back in 2012, is plummeting back to Earth after 14 years studying the planet’s hazardous radiation belts. Amid headlines screaming “NASA satellite crash,” fears of destruction grip the public, yet experts insist the threat is minimal. Most of the spacecraft will incinerate in the atmosphere due…
These days, there is an assumption worldwide that gold should be purchased for future investment. All the big investors would suggest buying gold as the best way to invest the money. Scientists at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) have developed a sustainable method to restore 22-carat gold from electronic waste using a protein…
In September 2023, a colossal landslide in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord triggered a megatsunami, causing the entire planet to vibrate every 90 seconds for nine days. An unprecedented seismic hum was detected worldwide. Satellites have now unveiled the cause: resonant fjord oscillations. A 25.5 million cubic metre rockslide, driven by climate change-induced glacial melt, plunged into…
Scientists from China have claimed they might have found a mineral that is harder than the cubic diamond, which is known to the world as the hardest existing mineral. The hexagonal diamond (HD) is supposedly the toughest mineral, though its existence remains questionable. Hexagonal diamond (also known as lonsdaleite) is usually found at sites impacted…
PC: The Pennsylvania State University Astronomers seem to have pulled back a new curtain on the early universe. A massive 3D map now shows a “sea of light” that had been mostly invisible until recently. It’s not galaxies alone lighting up the cosmic stage; it’s the faint glow of hydrogen between them. This light comes…
For any future human survival on Mars, scientists have identified several primary sites. One of the vital sites is the world’s largest uninhabited island, namely Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. NASA uses this icy island to study Mars, primarily because it’s barren and its freezing, polar desert conditions allow researchers to test next-generation rovers. By…
PC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Scientists are working tirelessly to read and know about other planets. They are looking for chances to find life on all other planets. One of the studies suggests that three autonomous Robots were sent to a volcanic lava tunnel in Lanzarote. This was accelerated to explore…
AI image (Picture credit: Google Gemini) For decades, the idea of alien life has lived somewhere between science and science fiction. From Hollywood & Bollywood films to grainy UFO footage on the internet, the possibility that humanity is not alone in the universe has fascinated people across the world. But in recent years, the conversation…
PC: Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Ashoke Sen might be one of the quietest geniuses in physics. Born in Kolkata in 1956, he grew up fascinated by abstract mathematics and theoretical puzzles. While most kids were playing outside, Sen reportedly spent hours on equations, drawn more to thought experiments than everyday life. His journey took him…
Imagine having a podcast at the time of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 that marked a pivotal moment in space exploration, listening to what their first conversation sounded like. On 20 July, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins achieved the impossible, landing humans on the Moon for the first time. This triumph, amid…
