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An exploded view of the ITER nuclear-fusion facility. A human figure in orange is shown just below the image’s centre for scale. The reactor vessel is visible at the centre (with the D-shaped cross-section). | Photo Credit: DOI:10.1088/1741-4326/aa626c Researchers and investors worldwide are currently pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion in the hopes that … Read more

Researchers have shown a loophole in the no-cloning theorem by creating perfect copies using ideas from information theory. The protocol is illustrated here. | Photo Credit: Image created with Sonnet 4.6 Quantum physics has a rule called the no-cloning theorem that prevents you from making a perfect copy of an unknown quantum state. It has … Read more

In December last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming missions that the Department of Space had scheduled seven major missions by March 2026. Of these, only one — the LVM3 M6 mission by NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) — was … Read more

This image taken from video provided by NASA shows the Earth, left, from NASA’s Orion spacecraft as it fired its engines heading toward the moon on Thursday, April 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA via AP NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon on Thursday (April 2, 2026) night, breaking … Read more

Antaya University, Türkiye, researchers have used E. coli bacteria as a versatile factory to produce useful compounds such as insulin. | Photo Credit: Public domain We know photosynthesis is a feature of plants which absorb sunlight and use the energy to convert atmospheric CO2into glucose. While sunlight peaks in the 400-700 nm region (of wavelengths), … Read more

Iran is expected to have around 500 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. U-235 is the isotope of uranium conventionally used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Enrichment is the process of increasing the quantity of U-235 in the uranium mass. The rest will be U-238, which is not a good fissile material. Whereas a … Read more

The sight of the giant rocket bearing the NASA Artemis II mission and its crew of four ascending into the sky in the early hours of April 2 (IST) brought cheers among onlookers on the ground and around the world. The mission has taken many years and several billion dollars to develop and brings the … Read more

On a humid evening along Beach Road in Visakhapatnam, a small crowd gathers around a telescope, waiting for a glimpse of the moon. Conversations quieten as each viewer takes a turn. Some step back in astonishment, others linger, returning for another look. These are the familiar rhythms of the Vizag Astronomy Club’s ongoing moon watch … Read more