Heavy rains are raining everywhere in the country. The heat of rain has brought relief from the heat, but the problems have increased equally. Due to continuous rains, clothes are getting dirty when they exit, but the biggest problem is coming to dry them. In such a situation, a washing machine is being used to…
In a discovery that could upend our understanding of the cosmos, scientists believe that Earth, along with the entire Milky Way, may be drifting near the centre of a massive cosmic void, an area unusually empty of galaxies and matter.Presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting, new research led by Dr Indranil Banik from the University of…
India’s Gaganyatri and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla in at the International Space Station (ISS) doing scientific research. Group Captain Shukla, who is part of the Axiom Mission 4, or what is sometimes also referred to as Mission Akash Ganga, is India’s first astronaut aboard the ISS.In a conversation with Dr Lucie Low, the chief scientist…
New Delhi: Google has rolled out AI Mode feature for all users in India, which will make it easier to ask anything to Google, and will help users to get helpful AI-powered responses and explore topics more deeply on the web.The feature, which Google touts has its most powerful AI search experience yet was introduced last…
New Delhi: Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institution of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), have, in a breakthrough, found hidden miniature plasma loops that may help unravel the Sun’s deepest mysteries.The loops are small and short-lived, and have, till date, stayed hidden, but these may reveal how the…
The foundation of a nation’s health and prosperity lies in the well-being of its children. However, a concerning trend has emerged in the US, where children’s health has declined over the past 17 years, with alarming increases in obesity, chronic diseases, and mental health issues like depression, threatening their future and the nation’s prosperity.The study…
New Delhi: Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut on the International Space Station, is working to develop a brain-computer interface in the orbital lab, said NASA on Thursday. Shukla, part of the Axiom Space mission-4, used near-infrared technology to develop the interface in the Columbus laboratory module aboard the orbiting lab along with a fellow astronaut…
New Delhi: Nearly 17 per cent or one in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness, and the condition was linked to an estimated 100 deaths every hour — more than 8,71,000 deaths annually between 2014 and 2023, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.The report showed that while loneliness…
New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have identified a previously unknown trigger of diabetes in collagen — the most abundant protein in the human body — that is also worsening the blood sugar condition.The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showed how collagen accelerates the clumping of…
New Delhi: IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has undertaken a key experiment to decode muscle health in space — crucial for astronauts undertaking long space missions as well as for people with muscle loss on Earth.Shukla last week scripted history by becoming the first Indian to reach the International Space Station (ISS), aboard the Axiom Space’s…
