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 …
ecological sciences Bird diversity is anti-viral Greater bird diversity protects humans from a deadly virus known to cause meningitis. The West Nile Virus, usually maintained in a bird-mosquito cycle in nature, can be transmitted to humans through a mosquito bite. Biologists from Washington University recently said most birds are bad …
On October 2, the social networking site Bebo teamed up with an expert in radio communication, Alexander Zaitsev, to beam 500 messages from users into space. Zaitsev used a Ukrainian radio telescope, normally used to identify and track asteroids
THE first orbit reduction manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully completed, taking the spacecraft as near as 200 km from the moon, according to space agency Isro. As part of the manoeuvre, which began at 20:09 IST on Sunday, the 440 newton liquid engine of the spacecraft was fired for …
The Indian Space Research Organisation's moon mission marks the first venture into "deep space" for an indigenous satellite. India now joins a select club of nations which have achieved this "milestone".
biological sciences Water bears in space Life for a certain kind of tiny invertebrates is possible in space. About 1.5 mm long water bears were found to survive there, a European Space Agency (esa) experiment showed. This makes the eight-legged invertebrates, also called tardigrade, the first animals known to survive …
A momentous bang On September 10, at 10.28 am , local time, the first beam of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva was steered around a 27 km long tunnel. This event had intended and unintended consequences. Both are of great …
Why does a developing nation have such an ambitious space programme? Subhadra Menon traces its foundations back to the work of one visionary physicist 60 years ago.
STOCKHOLM: Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. An American, Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery …
Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from earth. The new record holder, called GRB 080913, was first detected on September 13 by Nasa
