A: On January 31, Blue Origin, the private space company owned by Jeff Bezos, announced that it was suspending its New Shepard suborbital space tourism programme for at least two years to focus on its “lunar capabilities” instead. Suborbital tourism is a form of space travel where paying passengers fly to the edge of space...
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February 3, 2026February 3, 2026Science & Tech
Indian scientists make affordable dipstick test to track AMR in sewage
Scientists from the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, have developed an affordable way to check for antimicrobial resistance in sewage. In their study, detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications on December 29, the scientists analysed sewage samples from 381 sites in Assam, Haryana, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal,...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Science & Tech
NASA hit by fuel leak during practice countdown of moon rocket
NASA ran into a leak while fueling its new moon rocket Monday (February 2, 2026) in one final make-or-break test that will determine when astronauts can launch on a lunar fly-around. The launch team began loading the 98-meter rocket with super-cold hydrogen and oxygen at Kennedy Space Centre at midday. More than 2.6 million litres...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Science & Tech
ISRO tests thrust chamber for LOX-Methane Engine
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has conducted the testing of a sub-scale thrust chamber for LOX-Methane Engine which would be inducted in the next generation of launch vehicles. The test was conducted at the Thrust Chamber Test facility at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri on January 27, 2026. “The sub-scale thrust chamber and single...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Children, Science & Tech
Spreading endlessly: The ad infinitum story
1,2,3,4,5,6,7…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..∞ The dots lead us to infinity. Or so I can say and immediately end this article here. Try imagining the highest number imaginable (which is, in layman’s terms ‘infinity’). Can you? Let’s hold that thought as it will become a crucial point of departure for our deep understanding of the infinity. The brain-melting vagueness...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Science & Tech
Investigation into PSLV failures ‘ongoing’, next launch date in June: Minister
The investigation into the causes behind the consecutive failures of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is ongoing, and an external team is also involved in the probe. But none of the companies that had satellites onboard the doomed rockets have expressed reservations over their reliability. ISRO is considering a...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Opinion, Science & Tech
Is it okay for an Indian scientist to have taken Jeffrey Epstein’s money?
A decade ago, I heard a talk by an environmental activist in Chennai. This person almost always worked in settings with significant resource constraints and on activities that society had a tendency to overlook. Jeffrey Epstein had not been the well-known name it has become in India, and around the world, today. But the activist...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Science & Tech
Indonesia says it will restore access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot
Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday. Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women and children using simple...
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February 2, 2026February 2, 2026Science & Tech
X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows
Elon Musk’s social media platform X was back up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 U.S. users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes and was largely resolved by 12:04 p.m. ET, the website said. X did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The...
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February 1, 2026February 1, 2026Science & Tech
General relativity survives its most rigorous single-event test yet
On January 14, 2025, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGOs) recorded a cosmic tremor unlike any before. Named GW250114, the signal was the ‘loudest’ gravitational wave scientists had ever detected. In a study published in Physical Review Letters on January 29, an international team of researchers reported that it had used this powerful signal to...
