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Calcutta's Suman Chakraborty bags Infosys award for elucidating interaction of fluid mechanics

Nov 15, 2022, at 09:32 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Calcutta's Suman Chakraborty, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of R&D at IIT, Kharagpur, won the Infosys Prize 2022 in the field of Engineering and Computer Science for elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at both micro and nanoscale.

Gaganyaan: Test flights for India's maiden unmanned space flights to start from Feb

Oct 28, 2022, at 03:33 am

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start the test flights for India's maiden human space flight mission -- Gaganyaan -- from February next year, said R Umamaheshwaran, Director of ISRO's Human Space Flight Centre on Thursday, according to media reports.

Partial Solar Eclipse begins in India

Oct 25, 2022, at 10:38 pm

Hyderabad: The first visible partial solar eclipse in 2022 and also the last in this year, began in India on Tuesday.

ISRO lifts off India's heaviest rocket with 36 satellites on board

Oct 23, 2022, at 02:59 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Sunday launched 36 satellites using its heaviest rocket just after midnight, at 12.07 am.

ISRO to launch 36 broadband satellites today: Countdown begins for LVM3-M2/One Web India-1 mission

Oct 22, 2022, at 11:23 pm

Sriharikota: The 24 hour countdown for the tomorrow's morning launch of 36 satellites of the UK-based One Web using the heaviest rocket Launcher GSLV-MkIII--rechristened as LVM3-M2--from the spaceport of Sriharikota, SHAR Range, commenced today morning.

21 IIT Guwahati Researchers selected among World’s Top 2 percent Scientists List

Oct 12, 2022, at 09:27 pm

Guwahati: A total of 21 Researchers and faculty members from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, including Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director of the Institute, have been featured among the world’s Top 2 per cent Scientists List created by Stanford University, US.

NASA confirms DART Mission impact changed asteroid’s motion in space

Oct 12, 2022, at 02:28 pm

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.

Three scientists receive Nobel Prize in chemistry for development of 'click, bioorthogonal chemistry'

Oct 06, 2022, at 01:40 am

Stockholm/IBNS: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.

Jammu and Kashmir: Sher-e-Kashmir varsity researchers introduce multi-coloured capsicums which promises to have high medical values

Oct 05, 2022, at 03:07 am

A visit to the high-tech poly houses of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) will make you see  varieties of green, yellow, red and brown capsicums with high medicinal value and antioxidant properties.

China successfully launches three Shiyan research satellites

Sep 27, 2022, at 11:51 pm

Beijing/IBNS: China successfully launched three Shiyan type research satellites with the Long March-6 carrier rocket on Tuesday morning, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said.

NASA's DART spacecraft crashes into asteroid

Sep 27, 2022, at 04:23 pm

Los Angeles/UNI: A NASA spacecraft successfully slammed into an asteroid on Monday in a test to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission launch postponed for 3rd time over poor weather

Sep 25, 2022, at 05:13 pm

Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Saturday it once again postponed the launch of Artemis 1 unmanned moon mission, scheduled for Tuesday, as tropical storm Ian is edging toward the US coast.

UK-based One Web's 36 satellites arrive in Sriharikota for launch

Sep 21, 2022, at 01:13 am

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching UK-based One Web's 36 satellites in an exclusive commercial launch using its heavy indigenous rocket GSLV-MKIII from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota SDSC-SHAR.

NASA scrubs second Artemis I launch attempt

Sep 04, 2022, at 03:30 pm

Los Angeles/UNI: NASA scrubbed its second launch attempt of the Artemis I lunar mission due to a leak issue.

NASA postpones Artemis 1 Moon mission over 'engine bleed'

Aug 30, 2022, at 01:42 am

NASA postponed the launch of the Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed flight around the Moon, which was scheduled to take off Monday from Florida after encountering a temperature issue with one of the four RS-25 engines.

A View From Space With Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari

Aug 28, 2022, at 07:18 pm

Indian American astronaut Raja Chari spent 177 days on the International Space Station, where he conducted his first spacewalk and hada bird’s-eye view of Earth’s atmosphere. SPAN writer Krittika Sharma catches up with the spaceman

NASA's Webb detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere

Aug 26, 2022, at 09:24 pm

Los Angeles/IBNS: National Aeronautics Space Administration's (NASA's) James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system, NASA said.  

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites: Study

Aug 12, 2022, at 04:44 am

Birmingham: Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has shown.

Technical hitch develops in maiden launch of new ISRO rocket

Aug 07, 2022, at 04:33 pm

Sriharikota(AP)/IBNS/UNI: A technical hitch has developed in analysing the lost data of India's maiden flight Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), which lifted off the first launch pad at 0918 hrs, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated.

Nuclear technology helps Mexico eradicate invasive insect pest

Aug 06, 2022, at 10:33 pm

New York: One of the most devastating insect pests infesting fruits and vegetables in Mexico has been eradicated in the state of Colima, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Chinese rocket returns to Earth, lands near Philippines island

Aug 01, 2022, at 11:24 pm

Beijing: A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide Beijing for not sharing information about the potentially hazardous object's descent, Khaleej Times reported on Sunday.

NASA’s Webb captures dying star’s final ‘performance’ in fine detail

Jul 13, 2022, at 03:08 pm

Washington: The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.

NASA’s Webb delivers deepest infrared image of universe yet

Jul 12, 2022, at 02:24 pm

Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

DST-IISc energy storage platform moves towards enabling fast-charging solid-state batteries

Jun 26, 2022, at 11:10 pm

Nanoscopic refractory metal layers like Tungsten could improve the performance of solid-state lithium metal batteries which are crucial for purposes like electrical mobility, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have reported.

Google engineer says company's AI bot has come to think like humans, faces suspension

Jun 13, 2022, at 10:06 pm

California/IBNS: Google engineer Blake Lemoine has claimed that the multinational tech company's artificial intelligence (AI) bot has become sentient (able to perceive or feel things) and shown signs of being able to think like human beings.

Assam govt signs MoA with Tata Technologies to upgrade technical institutes

May 12, 2022, at 05:18 am

Guwahati/IBNS: In a move to upgrade technical institutes covering all aspects of curriculum, training and equipment in consonance with the latest industry needs, a memorandum of agreement was signed between the government of Assam and Tata Technologies Limited in presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at Janata Bhawan in Guwahati on Wednesday.

Everything We Know About the Pixel 6A

Apr 28, 2022, at 05:08 pm

Rumors have been piling up about the release of the new midrange Google Pixel 6A smartphone. While there are no definitive confirmations, many leaks suggest we can see a significant upgrade over Pixel 5A in most areas.

What is White Label API Integration?

Apr 23, 2022, at 05:18 pm

14 Assam teachers, students detect 16 new asteroids working under IASC

Feb 15, 2022, at 09:29 pm

Guwahati: A 14-member students and teachers group of Assam have detected 16 new asteroids as part of an International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) Citizen Science Programme that provides high-quality astronomical data to citizen scientists around the world.