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
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