Group Captain Shubanshu Shukla is also one of the four astronaut-designates selected for the Gaganyaan mission of ISRO. Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shuklaâs mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in May 2025. Group Captain Shukla will be the pilot of the upcoming Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4), which is the fourth private…
The story so far: The powerful earthquake in Myanmar on March 28 had its source in central Myanmar, about 20 km from Mandalay, the countryâs second-largest city. Mandalay, located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river, is close to one of the most seismically active faults in the region, called the Sagaing fault, named…
This image collage shows the location of the ChaSTE instrument onboard the Vikram lander. The lander was photographed by the Pragyan rover. | Photo Credit: ISRO As the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the moon on August 23, 2023, a thermal probe tucked snugly in its panels, slowly worked itself free and stretched…
A handout made available by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on April 19, 2023, shows the tunnels of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. | Photo Credit: European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)/AFP Photo Top minds at the worldâs largest atom smasher have released a…
Some plants, like snapdragons, can produce a wide range of colourful flowers. The difference between two flowers of different colours can be elicited by comparing their genomes and spotting the differences there, according to Daria Shipilina, a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. As an evolutionary biologist, Shipilina is fascinated by how…
Private US lander Blue Ghost captured high-definition images of a lunar sunset. To cut costs, instead of carrying material from Earth, astronauts would need to use the abundantly available lunar soil, or âregolithâ â a complex mixture of broken minerals and rocks â to build structures on site. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science…
Doubling errors occur in handwriting but are less frequent. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Cytonn Photography/Unsplash A: Analyses of large corpora of typed text reveal that these doubling errors are a common class of typographical errors. They only arise in words that have adjacent double letters, or geminates, and are attributed to a special repetition…
Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packsâplaces where glucose molecules are disassembled to release the energy that drives metabolism. Boosting a failing cellâs metabolic processes by adding new mitochondria could thus be a smart move. But that is just a start. These organelles, the descendants of bacteria that cosied up with…
The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, which was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024, is so far away that its light took 13.4 billion years to reach Earth. This means the galaxy can also reveal what the universe was like in its infancy, when it was just 300. | Photo Credit: AFP Scientists using the…
ISRO has released images captured by its earth imaging and mapping satellite, CARTOSAT-3 showcasing the damages caused by the earthquake in Myanmar on March 28. The post-disaster Cartosat-3 imagery was acquired by ISRO on March 29 over the cities of Mandalay and Sagaing in Myanmar, it said. Additionally, the pre-event Cartosat-3 data acquired on March…
