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 …
NASA scientists celebrated the success of the Deep Impact mission, which rammed a space probe into a comet tens of millions of miles from Earth to glean new clues about the nature of the universe. Hurtling through space at more than six miles (10 kilometers) per second, the washing machine-sized …
scientists have developed a semiconductor device that may lead to improved, long-life batteries. Employing some of the same techniques that are used to produce microchips, they have created a porous-silicon diode that converts low levels of radiation into electricity and can last several decades. A team of researchers from the …
Depending on how dark the sky is, people across the globe will be able to view an exceptional celestial get together graced by a trio of planets on Monday night. Saturn, Mercury and Venus, naked-eye visible planets, will come close to each other on June 27. Just after sunset, in …
After a voyage of 173 days and 431 million km, Nasa's Deep Impact spacecraft will get up-close and personal with comet Tempel 1 on July 4. The first of its kind, hyper-spped impact between space borne iceberg and copper fortified probe is scheduled for approximately 1.52 am on July 3. …
The world's first solar sail spacecraft takes flight, launched by space enthusiasts who cobbled the privately funded mission together on $4 million and an untested theory that light can power limitless space exploration. Cosmos 1, a disc-shaped craft whose two segmented sails suggest flower petals, is set to blast off …
A planet that may be earth-like -- but too hot for life as we know it -- has been discovered orbiting a nearby star. The discovery of the planet, with an estimated radius about twice that of Earth, was announced today at the National Science Foundation. "This is the smallest …
indian scientists have uncovered a missing link in the prehistoric human migration jigsaw puzzle by revealing that two reclusive tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are among the world's oldest surviving indigenous groups. The researchers from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ccmb), in Hyderabad, have gathered enough …
how about a nuclear reactor that you can carry around in your trousers' pocket? If the work done by a team of us scientists is any indication, this may soon be a reality. The scientists from the us -based University of California, Los Angeles (ucla) have developed a toaster-sized nuclear …
The first meteor ever seen on Mars has been traced to a trail left by comet Wiseman-Skiff, a wanderer of the solar system that takes six-and-a-half years to orbit the sun, French astronomers said. The meteor was recorded as a long streak against the inky Martian sky on March seven, …
The Andromeda galaxy just got bigger -- three times bigger, astronomers said. The galaxy is not actually expanding. But new measurements suggest that the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way is three times broader than astronomers had thought. They now believe a thin sprinkling of stars once thought to …
After an historic series of manned missions lasting from July 1969 through December 1972, the American lunar adventure went into a coma for the next 32 years. President Bush's new vision of Earth's natural satellite as a base for mission into deeper space, including Mars and other worlds missions. It …
geologists have discovered an active tectonic fault about 60 kilometres (km) north of Kathmandu in Nepal. The new fault runs 23 km south of the Main Central Thrust (mct), which demarcates the Greater Himalayan ranges in the north from the Lesser Himalayan mountains in the south. Nepal is sandwiched between …
The National Aeronautical Space Agency (Nasa) has offered a $250,000 prize to any scientist who discovers a way of extracting breathable oxygen from moondust. The competition is the latest in Nasa's 'Centennial Challenges' series, which aims to stimulate the development of technologies useful to space exploration. To claim the MoonROx …
a recent discovery of fragments of fossilised bones from the Narmada basin has once again brought to the fore the question of the antiquity of the first humans on the Indian subcontinent. Anek Ram Sankhyan, a senior anthropologist with the Kolkata-based Anthropological Survey of India (asi), had unearthed collarbones and …
The Cassini spacecraft has snapped pictures of a small moon it found tucked away in a gap in the outer ring of Saturn, scientists said. Cassini, a joint project of NASA and the Europena and Italian space agencies, took a series of cnapshots of the object on May 1, scientists …
The most detailed map ever made of the Earth's land surface is being created with the European Space Agency's Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution three times sharper than any previous satellite map. It will be a unique depiction …
Eighteen months from now, every nook and corner of the country will have been mapped in three-dimensional detail. Sounds farfetched? Here's more.. From remote trekking trails of Kumaon hills to parking congestion in your city to the exact height the length of the Entire Himalayan range, pictures will come as …
