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NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both … Read more

Two days after the Election Commission of India announced the dates for West Bengal Assembly polls on March 18, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) booth president was hacked to death due to intra-party rivalry in North 24 Parganas district, claiming the first fatality of the upcoming Assembly elections. In the past decade, Bengal has remained the … Read more

ISRO chairman V. Narayanan receiving the K.P.P. Nambiar Award 2025 instituted by the IEEE Kerala section in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday | Photo Credit: Special arrangement V. Narayanan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Saturday described the Artemis II mission of US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as “a great effort” and … Read more

This screengrab from a NASA live broadcast video footage shows NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman (L) and NASA astronaut and Artemis II pilot Victor Glover working inside the Orion spacecraft as they pass the halfway point between Earth and the Moon on the way to their planned lunar flyby in the Orion … Read more

Examining the discussions on the 1965 Bill in Parliament, the researchers underline the arguments of Shakuntala Paranjpye, an advocate of birth control, who sought to add a restrictive clause limiting maternity benefits to the first two deliveries. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images A scholarly dissection of a contentious chapter … Read more

This image provided by NASA shows a view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman from of the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn on April 2, 2026. Photo: NASA via AP The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever … Read more

This iconic frame from an early science fiction film shows a capsule landing on the Moon. Name the silent film released in 1902. Answer: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) Published – April 03, 2026 05:11 pm IST Read Comments Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit

Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto You must have heard of hacking and how social media accounts, devices and even security systems often get hacked. But did you know there is an ethical side to hacking which helps us all in ways we do not often realise?  Ethical hacking or white-hat hacking is a … Read more

Examining the discussions on the 1965 Bill in Parliament, the researchers underline the arguments of Shakuntala Paranjpye, an advocate of birth control, who sought to add a restrictive clause limiting maternity benefits to the first two deliveries. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images A scholarly dissection of a contentious chapter … Read more

Walk into any supermarket in an Indian city today, and you’ll likely spot a few baskets of avocados of different shapes and sizes. Once unfamiliar to most of us, this fruit has been steadily gaining popularity for its buttery texture and rich nutritional value, so much that it has become a staple on brunch menu’s. … Read more

A woman takes a picture of a handbag made with T. rex fossil-derived collagen on display at Museum ArtZoo in Amsterdam, on April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday (April 2, 2026) a ‌handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from ​the U.S. in a unique creation … Read more

An exploded view of the ITER nuclear-fusion facility. A human figure in orange is shown just below the image’s centre for scale. The reactor vessel is visible at the centre (with the D-shaped cross-section). | Photo Credit: DOI:10.1088/1741-4326/aa626c Researchers and investors worldwide are currently pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion in the hopes that … Read more

Kerala’s total R&D spending as a fraction of its GSDP is less than half of India’s 0.6% of GDP, a figure already considered inadequate. | Photo Credit: Galeanu Mihai In recent years, Kerala has framed its development strategy around equity and environmental protection. Between 2021-22 and 2026-27, it anchored its State budgets to the pillars … Read more

Extra-terrestrials have always been a fascinating subject for us humans. In the media, they have been portrayed from comically homicidal Martians in Mars Attacks to stoic Spock in Star Trek and the curious and childlike E.T. The latest to join the ranks of the non-earthling denizens of the universe is Rocky, the adorable rock-like Eridian … Read more

In December last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming missions that the Department of Space had scheduled seven major missions by March 2026. Of these, only one — the LVM3 M6 mission by NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) — was … Read more

Researchers have shown a loophole in the no-cloning theorem by creating perfect copies using ideas from information theory. The protocol is illustrated here. | Photo Credit: Image created with Sonnet 4.6 Quantum physics has a rule called the no-cloning theorem that prevents you from making a perfect copy of an unknown quantum state. It has … Read more

Antaya University, Türkiye, researchers have used E. coli bacteria as a versatile factory to produce useful compounds such as insulin. | Photo Credit: Public domain We know photosynthesis is a feature of plants which absorb sunlight and use the energy to convert atmospheric CO2into glucose. While sunlight peaks in the 400-700 nm region (of wavelengths), … Read more

Iran is expected to have around 500 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. U-235 is the isotope of uranium conventionally used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Enrichment is the process of increasing the quantity of U-235 in the uranium mass. The rest will be U-238, which is not a good fissile material. Whereas a … Read more

This image taken from video provided by NASA shows the Earth, left, from NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it fired its engines heading toward the moon on Thursday, April 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA via AP NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon on Thursday (April 2, 2026) night, breaking … Read more

The sight of the giant rocket bearing the NASA Artemis II mission and its crew of four ascending into the sky in the early hours of April 2 (IST) brought cheers among onlookers on the ground and around the world. The mission has taken many years and several billion dollars to develop and brings the … Read more

Welcome back data enthusiasts. Over the past month, as the war in West Asia has unfolded, we have moved beyond tracking missiles, conflict maps and casualty counts to look at something less visible but just as important — the spillover costs of the conflict. In the last two weeks, we focused on how the war … Read more

On a humid evening along Beach Road in Visakhapatnam, a small crowd gathers around a telescope, waiting for a glimpse of the moon. Conversations quieten as each viewer takes a turn. Some step back in astonishment, others linger, returning for another look. These are the familiar rhythms of the Vizag Astronomy Club’s ongoing moon watch … Read more

A fisherman casts his net in the Yamuna river, laden with foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi. The foam is a result of high levels of pollutants, particularly ammonia and phosphates, from industrial and wastewater discharges. | Photo Credit: AFP Every year, during the preparations for and festivities of Chhath Puja in Delhi, … Read more

A fisherman casts his net in the Yamuna river, laden with foam, on a smoggy morning in New Delhi. The foam is a result of high levels of pollutants, particularly ammonia and phosphates, from industrial and wastewater discharges. | Photo Credit: AFP Every year, during the preparations for and festivities of Chhath Puja in Delhi, … Read more

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In an experiment with six pucks with narrow channels suspended in a bath of E. coli, all pucks spun clockwise. Scientists said this marks the first step towards developing ‘chiral fluids’. | Photo Credit: Grober, D., Dhar, T., Saintillan, D. et al., Nat. Phys. (2026) Escherichia coli bacteria are the workhorse of microbiology labs. These … Read more

Be it our phones, tablets or our laptops — everyday, we interact with various digital devices designed to make our lives easier. Especially since the pandemic, even children have been exposed to this electric world at a very young age. Earlier, parents would desperately brandish toys to distract crying children, now they tamp down tantrums … Read more

Women voters have become a central point of discussion in elections in India in recent times. Rightly so, because parties in power roll out women-centric schemes, sometimes even direct cash transfer ones, to win their support. Opposition parties too make promises about initiating schemes for women’s welfare, if elected. These promises seem to making some impact, which … Read more