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NASA’s Opportunity Rover Mission Ends
Opportunity, a NASA rover to the surface of Mars, has stopped communicating with Earth after 15 years of service. NASA lost contact with the...
15 Feb 2019 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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150 years of the Periodic Table
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT2019) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...
11 Feb 2019 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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A Reckless Experiment: on Gene-edited Babies
(The editorial is based on the article “A reckless experiment: on gene-edited babies” which appears in The Hindu for 24th January 2019....
24 Jan 2019 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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IIT Madras Team Produces Gas Hydrates
A team of Indian researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has synthesized in a lab tiny water cages containing trace amounts of methane...
08 Jan 2019 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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NASA Spaceship Reaches Ultima Thule
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly past the icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) in Kuiper belt. Ultima Thule is located 1.6...
01 Jan 2019 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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China’s Rover to Far Side of the Moon
China has launched a lunar probe mission to the far side of the moon. Chang’e-4 is the first probe ever to explore the far side of the moon....
13 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 2 has become the second human-made object in history to exit the Heliosphere (bubble created by solar winds). Spacecraft...
12 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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Bioplastics Have Less Positive Effect than Expected: Study
A recent study from the University of Bonn suggests that shifting to bioplastics may have less positive effects than previously expected. The...
10 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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Seabed 2030: Mapping of Seafloor
The U.N.-backed project, called Seabed 2030, is working to pool data to create a map of the entire ocean floor by 2030. The map will be freely...
07 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems
The Union Cabinet has approved the launching of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) to be implemented by...
07 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has arrived at asteroid Bennu after a...
04 Dec 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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Genetic Modification Goes Beyond Ethics
(The editorial is based on the article “Genetic Modification Goes Beyond Ethics” which appears in Livemint for 29th November...
29 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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World's First Gene Edited Babies
A Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, has claimed that he used CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to produce the...
29 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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After a seven-month journey, Nasa’s Mars InSight probe has reached its destination and touched down near the red planet’s...
27 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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Atmospheric Geoengineering Experiment to Curb Global Warming
The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposed using a technique...
24 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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India to Study Marijuana-Derived Drugs
Three major science administrators in India — The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Indian Council for Medical Research...
24 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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(The editorial is based on the article “Make It The Indian Way” which appears in The Hindu for 21st November 2018. It analyses the...
23 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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GROWTH-India’s First Robotic Telescope
India’s first robotic telescope and the first one designed to observe dynamic or transient events in the universe has started observing the...
21 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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At the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Versailles (France), delegates of International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)...
17 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
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A newly published research paper has reported the discovery of a planet through radial velocity method in orbit around one of the closest stars to...
16 Nov 2018 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries
