The Indo-French satellite TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) will be launched in the next 12-16 months, said Jasvinder Singh Khoral, Director (Projects), U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), on Sunday (October 11, 2026). He said this was the third satellite that India and France are developing after Megha-Tropiques and SARAL (Satellite...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Science & Tech
Berlin to BITS Pilani: How Nobel-winning Optogenetics connects to parasite research in Hyderabad
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”, has brought renewed attention to using light to investigate fundamental biological processes. These include memory formation, feelings, and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders, as well as processes...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Science & Tech
What was the Chemistry Nobel Prize given for? | Explained
STORY SO FAR: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for showing that it is possible to amplify a molecule’s “handedness,” and direct it in a way that it can be used to produce pharmaceutical products of a very high purity. Their work also offers clues to...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
Chance and happenstance: On the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Only in imagination, the mathematical imagination, does perfect equality exist. A fair coin has an equal probability of heads and tails, so across many tosses, the expectation is for the proportions to approach 50:50. Laborious demonstrations have shown that this is rarely the case; bias is preloaded into life. Only about 10% of humans are...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
Food waste, a major contributor to climate change
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) It produces five times the greenhouse gas emissions than does the aviation sector and it releases methane that accounts for no less than 10 per cent of all global greenhouse gases. The...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
ISRO employees seek meeting with Chairperson to discuss queries on privatisation
The Joint Action Council (JAC), representing nine Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees’ associations, have sought a meeting with the Chairperson of the space agency, Dr. V. Narayanan, to discuss key issues, like emerging threats of privatisation and transfer of technology, among others. In a letter dated October 7, the nine associations requested an early...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Children, Science & Tech
The last human expedition to the moon… so far
Apollo 11 will forever be remembered as the mission which enabled human beings to set foot on the moon, our natural satellite, for the first time. While the first will always remain the first, the same cannot be said for what is the last such mission, as future missions might take that place. But for...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA’s Apollo program, dead at 90
American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the computer system used by NASA’s Apollo lunar programme, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said Wednesday. In a statement, the Massachussetts Institute of Technology called Hamilton, who taught at the prestigious university from 1959 to the mid-1970s, a “computing pioneer” and...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
The people this year’s Nobel Prizes left out
Winning a Nobel Prize is a matter of great prestige. Winning a Nobel Prize also means the award going to a small number of people while a large number are left out, even if they really deserved to win. This is partly because of the prizes’ rules. Alfred Nobel’s will said nothing about the number...
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October 7, 2026October 7, 2026Science & Tech
Tap space-tech start-ups’ capabilities for major projects of Indian space programme: G. Madhavan Nair
The talents and resources of space-tech start-ups should be tapped for flagship initiatives such as landing an Indian astronaut on the moon and building the Bharat Antariksh Station rather than encouraging unhealthy competition with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), former Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G. Madhavan Nair has said. Inaugurating...
