Rocket set to launch Nasa Space X Crew-9 spacecraft (left), and Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov (right) (Picture credit: Space X/ AP) Nasa is set to launch the SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Saturday, which will bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth after their extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) … Read more
Saturn emerging from behind the Moon in rare video (Picture credit: Andrew McCarthy X handle) In a captivating video, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy shared visuals of Saturn reemerging from behind the Moon on social media, attracting many astronomy enthusiasts.In the footage shared by McCarthy on X, Saturn appears in black and white, with its rings clearly … Read more
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. Earth is set to gain a temporary “mini-moon” this autumn in the form of a small asteroid named 2024 PT5. The asteroid, about 33 feet (10 metres) wide, will orbit our planet for roughly two months, from September 29 to November 25, before escaping Earth’s … Read more
NEW DELHI: People cramming their entire week’s exercise in one or two days or over the weekend, could be at a lower risk of developing over 200 diseases, with similar effects to those who exercise throughout the week, a study has found. ‘Weekend warriors‘ are individuals who engage in moderate or vigourous physical activity over … Read more
NEW DELHI: One in every two El Nino events could be extreme by 2050 if current trends in greenhouse gas emissions continue, a new study has found. El Nino, a weather pattern known for triggering warmer extremes like heatwaves and floods, is known to raise sea surface temperatures, while its counterpart La Nina leads to … Read more
In a remarkable display of international cooperation, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Vladimirovich Gorbunov is set to lead a high-stakes mission to rescue NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical failures with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.Gorbunov’s rescue mission is scheduled for February 2025, marking a … Read more
NEW DELHI: Artificial intelligence (AI) too could be capable of ‘learning by thinking‘, which is known to be core to a great discovery, according to a review. Cognitive scientists have documented how people learn from observation, in which one acquires knowledge by observing the external world. However, another way of learning — a relatively neglected … Read more
BLACKSBURG: Researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered how bacteria change molecules in order to infect their host.The mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the cause of dysentery, modulates molecular activity to ensure its survival despite its host’s natural defences has been uncovered by Daniel Capelluto and his research team.Their research was just published … Read more
SYDNEY: One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called Atlas has … Read more
BENGALURU: Isro, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) and space PSU NewSpace India Limited (Nsil) have achieved a milestone by signing 75 Transfer of Technology (ToT) agreements with Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) since the implementation of space reforms. The Centre announced the space reforms in mid-2020.The latest batch of five ToTs was signed Friday, … Read more