James McCully was in the lab extracting tiny structures called mitochondria from cells when researchers on his team rushed in. They’d been operating on a pig heart and couldn’t get it pumping normally again. McCully studies heart damage prevention at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was keenly interested in mitochondria. These power-producing … Read more
NITI Aayog vice-chairperson Suman Bery with member V.K. Saraswat and Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh during release of a report on ‘A Roadmap for Strengthening State S&T Councils’ in New Delhi on July 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The NITI Aayog has recommended that the Department of Science and Technology (DST) cut its … Read more
In this screenshot via @Axiom_Space on X on June 7, 2025, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and others aboard the International Space Station as part of a commercial mission by Axiom Space. | Photo Credit: @Axiom_Space via PTI Photo Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three other crew members of the Axiom-4 mission are set to return to … Read more
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is aboard the International Space Station as part of a commercial mission by Axiom Space. Photo: Axiom Space via PTI. In the final leg of his space sojourn, Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla turned into a farmer, taking photos of ‘moong’ and ‘methi’ seeds sprouting in petri dishes and inserting … Read more
Researchers from around the world have completed the world’s largest, most demanding head-to-head comparison of clocks in history to build confidence for the upcoming redefinition of the second. The duration of a single second is currently defined by caesium (Cs) atomic clocks. Lasers ‘count’ the radiation emitted by Cs atoms in these devices to measure … Read more
If obtaining sequences from ancient proteins found in fossils was previously limited to samples no older than four million years, two studies published in the journal Nature on Wednesday (July 9, 2025) have pushed back this timescale to more than 20 million years. The enamel proteins from extinct mammals are a staggering ten-fold older compared with the … Read more
According to ISRO, the Gaganyaan programme aims to demonstrate India’s capability to launch a crewed spacecraft into low Earth orbit. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters ISRO has successfully conducted two hot tests of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at the space agency’s Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri on July 3. The short-duration tests, lasting … Read more
Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are made of atoms. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up everything with mass. The … Read more
“They’re going to deliver rare earths to us,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview on June 27. “And once they do that, we’ll take down our countermeasures.” Mr. Lutnick’s remarks came just a day after a White House official confirmed that the U.S. and China had reached “an additional understanding” to implement … Read more
“Robotics and AI are integral to our mission. We use robotic arms for many internal and external tasks, making our work safer and more efficient on the Space Station,” Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station, said. File | Photo Credit: DPR PMO via ANI Photo “Many of you can become future … Read more