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Chandrayaan-2 is out of Earth’s orbit, gets closer to destination moon

Sandhya Ramesh -
India's second lunar probe carried out a Trans Lunar Insertion process at 2.21 am Wednesday to leave the Earth's orbit & get on the path to moon.
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How Modi govt will turn used cooking oil into biodiesel to cut oil imports

Sandhya Ramesh -
State-run oil firms will for 3 years procure biodiesel produced from used cooking oil. Govt's move also aims to promote alternate sources of energy.
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IIT Guwahati scientists using Muga silk to create 3D-printed human organs, implants

Mohana Basu -
IIT-Guwahati scientists have been working with silk proteins to create artificial implants that mimic biological architecture of real tissues & bone cartilage.
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Humans aren’t naturally designed to be happy

Rafael Euba -
The happiness and positive-thinking industry is worth $11 billion a year, but happiness is an abstract idea with no equivalent in actual human experience.
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Building thick houses & eating tomatoes: The unexpected realities of living on the moon

Ian Whittaker -
The question is whether we as a society have the stomach for lunar settlement, as well as lunar lettuce, or not.
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GM babies are possible, but do we really want them?

James Davies -
Scientists have found that it is remarkably straightforward to edit mammalian embryos using IVF technology.
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Through the mirror world, scientists want to detect parallel universes & exotic matter

Faye Flam -
Scientists are setting up relatively cheap experiments that just might give concrete evidence for a strange notion known as the mirror world.
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Chandrima Shaha, first woman set to head science academy, was also a cricketer, commentator

Mohana Basu -
Chandrima Shaha, the president-elect of the Indian National Science Academy, says she will take initiatives to combat pseudoscience.
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Food supply under threat, UN climate agency urges world to go vegan

Sandhya Ramesh -
According to the IPCC, the world may not have a lot of time to prevent food from running out.
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This link between kumkum & solar cells could be the next big science breakthrough

Sandhya Ramesh -
IIT-Hyderabad researchers say dye used to convert turmeric to traditional vermillion kumkum could make solar cell manufacture cleaner, greener, cheaper.
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The debates on the Adani stocks dealt briefly with the impact on stakeholders before the goalpost shifted to theories on the motives behind the Hindenburg report.
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Economy

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‘Need to see a decisive moderation in inflation’: RBI Governor on...

TCA Sharad Raghavan -
While overall inflation is moderating, high and persistent core inflation remains a worry, as does the uncertain global growth & inflation environment, the governor said.

Defence

File photo of the Chinese spy balloon which was later shot down by the US | Reuters

China has spy balloons, India has aerostats. But IAF’s had mixed...

Snehesh Alex Philip -
After Kargil Review Committee's recommendation, air force purchased 2 aerostats worth over Rs 300 crore for surveillance in 2007. IAF favours AWACS for vigilance operations.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint

Market has won & now it’s for Adani to decide whether...

Shekhar Gupta -
If the political establishment responds to a situation like this as if it’s something that must only play out between a corporate & the market, it's coming of age of Indian capitalism.

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