Category: Science & Tech

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) successfully launched the Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) with the BlueBird Block-2 satellite on Wednesday (December 24, 2025) morning, from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The LVM3-M6 placed the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into Low Earth Orbit about 15 minutes after lift off....

A: You’ve just had a heavy meal and now you have to sit through a dull lecture. Soon you’re feeling drowsy. You yawn, and your eyes water. This happens because yawning affects the muscles and glands around the eyes. Just above each eye is a tissue called the lacrimal gland. These glands produce water and...

The 24-hour countdown for the launch of LVM3-M6 rocket, which will carry a new generation U.S. communication satellite commenced in Sriharikota on Tuesday (December 23, 2025), ISRO said. In a dedicated commercial mission, ISRO is scheduled to launch the Bluebird Block-2 spacecraft on board its heavy lift launch vehicle LVM3-M6 at 8.54 a.m. from the...

The story so far: Millions of naturally occurring Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD) orbit the earth, posing a constant threat to all spacecraft and space stations. The menace attracted global attention recently when a piece of debris struck the Chinese crewed vehicle Shenzhou-20, causing a minor crack in the window of its return capsule, rendering...

Planarian flatworms are small, unassuming creatures with an astonishing talent. Cut one into pieces, and each fragment can regrow a complete animal. This seemingly magical ability comes from their prolific stem cells, known as neoblasts, which can produce every tissue in the body. In most animals, such regenerative stem cells grow under the care of...

Commemorating December 22 as National Mathematics Day invites memories of biographies, theorems, institutes, and prizes. But India also has mathematical places: built environments that render the mathematical act of measurement public. Jantar Mantar in New Delhi is one of them. It was commissioned by Sawai Jai Singh II and completed in 1724 as an architectural...

NASA has lost contact with its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, the Mars orbiter that has worked for more than a decade to study how the planet’s atmosphere is escaping into space. The spacecraft went silent in early December and engineers are still trying to re-establish communication. MAVEN’s job at Mars has been...

The chilly waters of the Southern Ocean that surround Antarctica like a moat are among the least explored and least understood of all the world’s oceans. This is stark because we also know that this ocean plays an outsized role in regulating the earth’s climate with its moody currents and its tremendous ability to absorb...

A: A superkilonova is a rare kind of cosmic explosion. When two neutron stars smash into each other, the material tossed into space includes heavy, radioactive elements like gold, platinum, and neodymium. Over time the elements decay and the emissions in the optical and infrared parts of the spectrum are called a kilonova. A superkilonova...