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 …
A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the evolution of the solar system. The Hayabusa explorer returned to Earth overnight after a seven-year, six-billion-km journey, burning apart on re-entry in a …
Paris: Scientists in Europe announced they had likely solved the case of the missing neutrinos, one of the enduring mysteries in the subatomic universe of particle physics. If confirmed in subsequent experiments, the findings challenge core precepts of the socalled Standard Model of physics, and could have major implications for …
Astronauts will not be sent by the US to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65ft underwater. On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts, descended to Aquarius, an undersea …
In what is billed to be the largest scientific instrument ever built, scientists plan to use three spacecraft flying three million miles apart to fire laser beams at each other across the emptiness of space in a bid to finally prove whether a theory proposed by Albert Einstein is correct. …
Washington: Nasa is looking forward to flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid that could take astronauts to Mars in a little over a month
OPTICAL communication has major uses in media, electronic and technical applications which go unnoticed by most. For example, it is the basis of laser and LED technology. Improvement can lead to advancement in areas like medical bio-imaging, new generation televisions or cell phone displays, as well as light or motion …
WHAT has kept the sun burning bright for millions of years without fail could soon be within reach of human technology. Scientists have been working towards creating controlled nuclear fusion reactions in labs but simulating the sun is not child’s play. All nuclei are positively-charged and the energy needed to …
Customary land rightsPalm oil firm loses to Kayans A native community in Malaysia won a 12-year legal battle against the Sarawak state government and palm oil giant ioi Pelita after the state’s apex court recognized their customary land rights. The court ruled that the government had unconstitutionally granted the native …
Work on an observatory to study neutrinos, tiny particles that can pass through matter unhindered, has been delayed by three years as its site has not been finalized. Naba K Mondal, spokesperson for the India-based Neutrino project (INO) and particle physics researcher at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Planning has slashed Commission has slashed funding for the programme to send a manned mission to the moon by 2015. The Human Space Flight Programme, earlier allocated Rs 238 crores, will now get only Rs 30 crores because the commission wants to allocate the rest …
Thiruvananthapuram, 18 April: A team of Indian space scientists has established that the indigenously built cryogenic engine had ignited for a second during the failed GSLV mission Thursday. "This took place for a second time and then the fuel supply to power turbo got blocked. The (Indian Space Research Organisation) …
Chennai: The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLVD3, the first Indian rocket to be powered by a totally indigenous cryogenic engine, will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 4.27pm on Thursday. The 416-tonne vehicle will carry GSAT-4, a 2,218-kg communication satellite, to be put in an …
Buzz Aldrin knows what it is to be second best. In his most famous photograph, his face is not visible. Taken on the moon, Aldrin’s face is entirely hidden inside his space helmet. But you can see the figure of Neil Armstrong, who took the photograph, reflected in the mirrored …
Made By Smashing Calcium, Berkelium A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive …
London: The technology Nasa has used on Mars to find underground ice can be replicated to search hidden water sources in deserts on Earth, scientists at the US space agency have said, claiming this could also help prevent the world from conflicts over war. The Nasa technology, dubbed Marsis, consisted …
B.R. SRIKANTH ENGALURU In a year's time India will fly an indigenous version of a space shuttle. On its first flight, the rocket-powered craft, shaped like an aircraft, will climb 60 km into the earth
