BENGALURU: In a renewed push to hand over Isro’s LVM-3 launch vehicle to private industry, space regulator-cum-promoter Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for the transfer of technology (ToT) of the country’s heaviest operational rocket.The move comes more than two years after Space PSU NewSpace India Limited … Read more
A meteorite picked up from the sands of the Sahara has begun to complicate the quiet assumptions scientists often make about the early solar system. It is not the sort of object that draws attention at first glance, just a dark fragment of rock with odd mineral flecks caught under a microscope. Yet inside it … Read more
Every year, the world generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste, and the vast majority of it ends up in places where it is not useful. A landmark 2025 study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, which conducted a global trade-linked material flow analysis of plastics for 2022, found that the global … Read more
Success has a way of attracting attention. A student tops an examination, and messages pour in. An entrepreneur builds a thriving company, and suddenly everyone wants to hear their story. An athlete wins a championship, and cameras follow their every move. Society loves a winner. It always has.Yet Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s observation points towards something … Read more
Four kilometres beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight and far from shipping lanes, lies a forgotten chapter of the nuclear age.Scattered across a vast stretch of seabed are more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste. They were lowered into the ocean over several decades during the second half of … Read more
Inside a modern data centre, performance is already constrained less by raw transistor capability and more by heat removal. Server racks packed tightly together push thermal systems to their limit, and operators often throttle workloads not because chips can’t compute faster, but because cooling systems can’t keep up. Against that backdrop, the claim that processors … Read more
Photo credit: X/@Space_Station A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to impact Earth on June 8, renewing interest in one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena, Aurora. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm watch following the eruption of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun.According to NOAA … Read more
Marc Aaronson (Image source: researchgate.net) There are certain quotes that make people pause because they seem to challenge a habit that most of us have. This quote by Marc Aaronson is one of them. It does not offer comfort. It does not suggest a careful plan. Instead, it asks readers to think about how much … Read more
Inside the narrow passages of Bàsura Cave in northwestern Italy, darkness is not just the absence of light. It is a physical constraint that shapes how bodies move, pause, and orient themselves. Around 14,400 years ago, a small group of Epigravettian hunter-gatherers entered this environment with a canid moving alongside them, leaving behind footprints that … Read more
A commuter steps off a bus in midday heat, phone already at 12 percent, and no wall socket in sight. The scene is familiar in dense cities where charging infrastructure hasn’t kept up with device dependence. In that gap between mobility and power demand sits an idea that feels almost obvious once you see it: … Read more