Getting there The Galileo Jupiter atmospheric probe was part of NASA’s Galileo mission – among the agency’s most ambitious deep space missions up until then. Before the probe could become Earth’s first ever emissary to penetrate the atmosphere of any of the outer gas giant planets, there was the task of getting the Galileo spacecraft … Read more
Axiom-4 crew, including Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, scheduled to undock from ISS on July 14. It is stated that Shubhanshu Shukla will be undergoing seven-day rehabilitation after returning to Earth. Photo: YouTube/Axiom Space/ANI Photo Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will undergo a seven-day rehabilitation programme after his splashdown off the California coast on July 15 as he … Read more
A fire officer stands next to the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft in Ahmedabad, June 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The fuel control switches on a Boeing 787-8 aircraft are critical cockpit controls that regulate the flow of fuel to each of the two engines. Their primary purposes are to start or … Read more
A ram air turbine deployed in an Airbus A320. | Photo Credit: Curimedia (CC BY) A preliminary investigation by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau has said the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash near Ahmedabad on June 12 followed fuel to the vehicle’s two engines being cut off. The engines on the 787-8 are the main … Read more
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Members of the Rajyaguru lab at IISc with Stephan Vagner of Institut Curie. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement When ultraviolet light, certain chemical compounds or even normal copying mistakes harm our DNA, cells rush to fix the damage. Doing so means making the right repair proteins — but also not too many. Using baker’s yeast … Read more
The developer of the device was guided virtually by experts from KSOU, who selected and validated the appropriate biomarkers for cardiovascular health monitoring. | Photo Credit: M.A. SRIRAM The faculty of Department of Studies in Microbiology in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) in Mysuru has played a key role in the development of an … Read more
On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the past four summers, Antarctic sea ice extent has hit new lows. I’m part of a large group of scientists who set out to explore … Read more
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