A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial crew of four lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday (March 31, 2025) launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a…
Lasers emerging from the new laser system on Unit Telescope 4 of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Antofagasta Region, in the Atacama Desert. In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using carbon-dioxide lasers — from a distance. The potential applications…
Kaizar Hossain, assistant professor, Asutosh College in Kolkata | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It is a proud moment for Asutosh College in Kolkata where an assistant professor in the department of environmental science not only got a paper published in the prestigious Nature journal but was also invited as a guest editor for the same…
With the introduction of technology in the education sector and several debates about banning smartphones in schools in the country, we need to understand the good and the bad side of the internet. While the world is literally at your fingertips, the same is true vice versa; your data is also at the world’s fingertips….
Aryabhata Satellite being balanced on the dynamic balancing table at ISSP, Bangalore. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives To develop students’ interest in space science and technology, the Singareni Collieries Educational Society (SCES) has decided to celebrate the golden jubilee of the launch of India’s first satellite Aryabhata on April 19, 2025. The celebrations would be…
Police officers take part in a search operation for the remains of people who went missing after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan’s economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which…
A file photo of ‘Our Sun and Its Family‘ being screened for visitors at the sky theatre in Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: K Bhagya Prakash The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) will be revising the entry fee for the sky theatre show from April 1. As per the revised charges, entry fee…
SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its sixth flight test on November 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: On March 15, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, announced on X that an uncrewed Mars landing mission will take place by the end of next year. The…
The Fram2 astronauts and Space X completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities ahead of liftoff on March 31, 2025. Photo: X/@SpaceX SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday (March 31, 2025) — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named “Fram2” after…
The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kursk, Russia. The enrichment centrifuge is a device used to extract uranium-235 isotope from a sample of natural uranium. U-235 is fissile and thus useful to generate nuclear power and to build nuclear weapons. Natural uranium consists of 99.3% U-238 and 0.7% U-235. Nuclear power reactors need the…
