Tag: Science

Vikram-1, the country’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, is set to lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Saturday (July 18, 2026) at 11.30 a.m. The launch is expected to mark the entry of Indian private space technology companies into the global launch services market. Rocket developed by Skyroot Aerospace Developed...

The Oceansat-3A satellite is likely to be launched before the end of this year, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) Director Prakash Chauhan said in Visakhapatnam on Friday. He was speaking after inaugurating the NICES-Coastal Observation Research Laboratory (CORAL) at the Centre for Studies on Bay of Bengal (CSBoB), Andhra University (AU), along with Vice-Chancellor G.P....

Forty-six years after India successfully launched its first experimental Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV-3), history is set to repeat itself as Vikram-1, the country’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, prepares to lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on July 18 (Saturday) at 11.30 a.m. On July 18, 1980, India became the sixth...

Central African monkey with striking patch is new species Researchers have found a new species of African monkey in Central Africa. Colobus congoensis, or ‘Likweli’, lives in Lomami National Park. It was first photographed in 2008 but has only now been confirmed to be a unique species, using genetic tests and field observations in 2018-2022....

— Mahua Ray A: The distinct scent often associated with ageing is primarily caused by a compound called 2-nonenal. Around 40 years, our bodies’ natural antioxidant defenses start to weaken, allowing certain fats on the skin to break down. For instance, when omega-7 unsaturated fatty acids like palmitoleic acid are exposed to oxygen, they oxidise...

SpaceX on Thursday (July 17, 2026) aborted what was to be its first Starship flight since the company went public, abruptly calling it off just as the booster began to ignite. “Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort. Now offloading propellant,” company head Elon Musk said on X. “To be confident...

In July 2022, a group of scientists recovered a seemingly unremarkable barnacled, opened plastic bottle bobbing off the coast off Okinawa in Japan; but something piqued their imagination This bottle, investigated by Hiroshima University researchers indeed contained a story: living inside it was a large female crab, missing a leg, its body larger than the...

With about 100 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) personnel quitting the space agency in various centres across the country, the Department of Space (DoS) has issued a memorandum to curb the exodus of scientists and engineers who are working in critical missions of national importance, like the Gaganyaan. In a memorandum issued on July 14,...

As countries electrify more of their economies and increasingly interconnect their power grids, understanding space weather has become crucial. One particularly adverse form of space weather is a geomagnetic storm: temporary disturbances in earth’s magnetic field caused by charged particles from the sun. These storms produce beautiful aurorae but also induce strong yet short-lived currents...

A recycling process between the Earth’s deep, scorching mantle and its surface water occurred some three billion years ago, generating magma-forming volcanoes that built continents, a new research paper has revealed. The phenomenon occurred much earlier than previously assumed, said geologists in a research paper published inNature Communications. An international team of researchers studied the...