Tag: Sci-Tech

A file photo of Aditya-L1 entering the Halo Orbit. In a first, scientists from Bengaluru and their international collaborators have analysed scientific observations of solar eruptions and studied the coronal mass ejections (CMEs) by using data derived from India’s Aditya-L1 mission and Europe’s Proba-3. Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) combined observations from...

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...

Multiple payloads developed by Indian companies were successfully deployed in orbit by Space X’s Falcon 9 in the early hours of October 2 from the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.A., as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Dhruva Space’s Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads (LEAP-2), hosting multiple...

The two-day International Space Summit got underway in Paris on Wednesday (September 9, 2026) in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron. Mr. Macron said that the summit will see the participation of 90 countries, and more than 50 projects are expected to be signed, bringing in billions of investments. “This space summit is a...

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so of blasting off on a test flight but some of the engines failed to start, triggering a launch abort. Elon Musk’s company said it will have to figure out what went wrong before making another attempt to send Starship on a space-skimming flight halfway around...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday (July 12, 2026) said it had successfully carried out three major tests of the Gaganyaan crew module systems. The first test pertained to ensuring an upright position for the crew module after splashdown in the sea, considered one of the most important crew safety requirements. To do...

China on ​Friday (July 10, 2026) successfully tested an ‌experimental rocket retrieval ​system ⁠using a net attached to a sea platform, ‌state media reported, in ‌the hopes of ‌breaking ⁠U.S. dominance ⁠in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B ​rocket lifted ‌off from the Hainan commercial space launch site in ‌southern China ​and, about six minutes...

By >Anne-Marie Hodge, University of Wyoming  When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game. To get around this predicament, >a recent study has shown, guppies use trickery.  Competition in fish of the Poeciliidae family (fresh-water fish to which guppies belong) is especially intense, because members...

By >Simon Cotton , University of Birmingham  There are >allegations that a nerve agent was used in Syria recently. According to US officials, it >killed more than 1,400 people, including 400 children. But since then, in a >more recent incident , a bomb dropped on a school caused many children to suffer from burns.  The...

By >William Feeney  The Silk Road snaked across continents for more than a thousand years, shaping civilisations in East and West. Famously trodden by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, the trade route brought riches to Europe and plagues to Asia. But it is not just humans who hold its legacy. For new research shows...