A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 10th test flight at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas, U.S., on August 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) night and completed the first-ever deployment of … Read more
A landmark study by Indian researchers has not only found evidence of cells recovering from the near-death stage but has also found the molecular mechanism that drives the recovery process, the opposite of programmed cell death. Scientists at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, call the survival mechanism that they uncovered as … Read more
When an animal learns to navigate a new environment, certain brain cells begin responding at specific locations. These neurons have long been seen as key to how spatial memories form. Once a memory is established, it’s often assumed to be stable. But a new study in Nature Neuroscience has challenged that view. Researchers tracked more … Read more
When the court lights flicker on at the U.S. Open, tennis stars shine under illumination designed to cut light pollution. The wedge-shaped lamps around the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows direct light onto the players without spewing it into the surrounding skies. The stadium complex is the only professional sports … Read more
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The story so far: On August 24, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out its first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-1), a crucial milestone in the preparation for the country’s maiden human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan. A dummy crew capsule weighing nearly five tonnes was dropped from a helicopter to test whether its parachute … Read more
India makes one in five generic drugs worldwide. Walk into any pharmacy from New York to Lagos, and chances are, you will find medicines manufactured in facilities across Gujarat, Maharashtra, or Telangana. It is a point of national pride. But, there is a problem. A study by the Max Institute of Healthcare Management at the … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the 10th launch of its Starship rocket due to cloudy weather in Texas on Monday (August 25, 2025), another slight delay in its efforts to overcome development setbacks and achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the Mars rocket system’s reusable design. The 71-metres tall Super Heavy booster and its 52-metres tall … Read more
Prof. Supreet Saini’s research group at IIT-Bombay uses microbes to understand what makes evolution unpredictable and deterministic at the same time. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement In a breakthrough that sheds new light on one of biology’s most puzzling questions, researchers at IIT-Bombay have shown that subtle differences in how nutrients are presented can push … Read more
In Western India, some of the country’s richest fossil beds lie inside open coal mines. It is gruelling work for palaeontologists with long days under a haze of dust, the deafening hammering of tools, and nights in small-town hotels with basic comforts. In 2024, palaeontologist Sunil Bajpai reported that at one such dig, he and … Read more