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 …
PLANT SCIENCES Never too late Flowers are more resilient than they appear. They shoot up against all odds. The credit goes to genetic matter called microRNA that inhibit protein formation crucial to flowering in young plants. External cues like sunlight make them flower. But in the absence of cues, too, …
indian space agency isro is yet to release its final report on the early death of its moon mission Chandrayaan, but speculations abound about the cause. One of the explanations is the late decision to carry a probing instrument in the spacecraft. In the original plan the spacecraft was to …
T.S. Subramanian SRIHARIKOTA: Three days after its 16th birthday, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Wednesday roared its way to success from the Sriharikota spaceport and put in orbit India
Divya Gandhi BANGALORE: Speculation is rife among space scientists that the quest for water on the moon may have reached a climactic end with the discovery of
Jupiter snared a passing comet in the middle of the last century, eventually releasing it 12 years later, astronomers reported on Monday. Data presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, near Berlin, showed that the biggest planet of the Solar System gained a temporary satellite, a comet called …
CHANDRAYAAN-I may have met a premature death, but its mission remains more or less accomplished. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said that the termination of Chandrayaan-1 last week after losing radio contact with earth will not impact the retrieval of scientific data it has carried out in …
This rare celestial treat comes once in 15 yrs New Delhi, September 6 Saturn, the lord of rings, is without its rings! Shocked! Don't be, as the rings have not gone anywhere. They have just become invisible to us due to a rare celestial phenomenon. Explaining the phenomenon, which occurs …
India goes for cutting-edge telescopes astronomers in India see a large window opening into the sky. In about a decade they would be gazing into farther corners of the universe that current telescopes cannot reach. To get that edge premier Indian research centres are analyzing three collaborative optical telescopes being …
A dye molecule shows how light can transfer information THE world of today cannot do without transistors. Used to switch and amplify signals in the integrated circuits, they are essential for any electronic device to work efficiently. As of now silicon is the principal component of a transistor. Its electrons, …
