Physical Science

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …

In a first, electron split into 2

Scientists have shown that electrons, which are indivisible in isolation, can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons when crowded into in a narrow wire. Reporting on their work in Science, the researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham explained that while single electrons seem to …

Comet unlikely to cause mass extinction on Earth

Chicago: Doomsday predicters can take some solace. Fears that a hurtling ball of fire can ravage the Earth has been laid to rest as a new study says comets probably won

New state of matter created

London: Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world

The lunar indicator

Not just an eclipse, it provides clues to the presence of life a lunar eclipse is considered very special astrologically. It is revered as a propellor of life-changing events. Now scientists revere it too

NASA cards to help view' eclipse

AHMEDABAD: In case the weather plays spoilsport on Wednesday, eclipse lenticulars, an innovative, weather-proof and all time total solar eclipse cards which is handy and provides a feeling of total solar eclipse observation in the sky designed especially by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), could be useful to enthusiasts. …

Balloon-borne study

One of the balloons that will glide at an altitude of 35km with equipment to capture images of the eclipse on July 22 A city based research institute is planning to use balloons to study the total solar eclipse on July 22. Scientists at the Indian Centre for Space Physics …

It's the solar system, stupid

Rocks brought home by Apollo astronauts revolutionised our thinking about Earth and its peers.

Why next moon walker will be Chinese

Alok Jha and David Adam In 2003, George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and once again, though, the U.S. faces some serious competition. The same year , Yang Lee Wei became China

Science & Technology - Briefs

evolution Link...or is it? A well-preserved fossil of primitive lemur Darwinius masilla, nicknamed Ida is believed to represent the point from which the group of monkeys, apes and humans (anthropoids) evolved. The fossil lacks the traits which characterize a modern lemur, a non-human primate. Instead it has a bone in …

Sun exposes earth to harmful rays

Washington, June 28: The Sun, a star at the centre of the solar system, is known to provide ideal conditions for life to thrive on earth. But, astronomers have claimed that it also leaves the planet wide open to harmful cosmic rays. A joint team from University of Arizona and …

Scientists give view of life on Mars

Planetary scientists have provided a view of what life may have looked like on ancient earth and other planets in the solar system, including Mars. In its study, an international team, led by Curtin University of Technology and University of Western Australia, focused on deposits formed by microbes in ancient …

Study turns back clock on origin of life by 500m yrs

Chicago: A heavy bombardment by asteroids the size of Ireland was not enough to wipe out life on Earth 3.9 billion years ago, researchers said in a finding that turns back the clock of life by 500 million years. Many scientists had thought the violent pelting by massive asteroids during …

India launches radar satellite

On Monday, the trusty Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle carried into orbit what is widely perceived as an Israeli-built radar satellite intended for India

Earth-sized new planet discovered

Hatfield, England Scientists say they

Isro to send humans to space in 7 years

T E Narasimhan / Sriharikota April 21, 2009, 0:25 IST The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) says it plans to send two humans into orbit in the next seven years. This is part of a Rs 12,400-crore project it has sent to the government for approval. The Planning Commission has …

Isro successfully launches earth observation satellite

T E Narasimhan / Sriharikota April 21, 2009, 0:47 IST The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) today successfully launched its 14th rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), an earth observation surveillance satellite, and the micro education satellite ANUSAT. The two satellites were successfully injected in orbit by an Indian rocket, …

Soup of dust, gas gave birth to solar system

Puttingan apparent end to all the theories on the origin of solar system, astronomers have claimed that it actually emerged from a

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food The secret of cheese For the past 800 years, farmers in Gouda, Netherlands, were making a yellow creamy cheese, from cow

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