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All you want to know about the future of crashed Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram

The lunar night has officially begun over the Vikram landing spot. Here's what’s next with the orbiter, NASA’s camera, and ISRO.

India will send man to space by December 2021: ISRO chairman

K. Sivan says all technologies of the Chandrayaan-2 mission have proved accurate except for the soft landing.

How nanotechnology can be used to intensify our sense of smell

Augmenting our olfactory senses will help us determine the concentration of hazardous gases and carry out the exhaled breath analysis for possible disease diagnosis.

Vikram lander dies today, but here’s how ISRO can ensure Chandrayaan-3 lives on

ISRO’s ambitious Vikram lander will die today as the lunar night sets in, two weeks after it went off the radar minutes before touchdown.

NASA analysing images of the moon’s region where ISRO’s Vikram Lander crashed

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team will analyse these new images captured on 17 September and compare them to previous images to see if the lander is visible.

Mock eggs & mock meat on the menu as IIT-Delhi seeks to collaborate with industries

Industry Day, to be celebrated on 21 Sept to promote industry-academia collaboration, will see more IIT creations such as water-less bath products and multi-purpose drones.

GM mosquito experiment to reduce dengue-causing species in Brazil fails

A British company had released genetically-modified mosquitoes to cut the population of Aedes aegypti, but Yale researchers say they've bounced back.

Next generation supercomputers still far from reality, says Nobel laureate Serge Haroche

A number of phenomena in quantum physics can be explained theoretically but not measured via experiments. Haroche says this proves to be one of the biggest challenges for quantum computing.

India is being digitally mapped — Rs 300-cr project the ‘biggest mission’ since 1830s

Survey of India has embarked on Map India Mission using drones, digital sticks and other tools. Work has begun in Maharashtra, Karnataka & Haryana.

A 3.8 million-year-old skull is the hottest topic right now & changing how we view ourselves

The new discovery also challenges the idea of Lucy’s species being the ancestor of all later Australopithecus hominins, which eventually led to humans.

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India should steer clear of an ‘Asian NATO’. Its strategic flexibility is at stake

Japan PM Shigeru Ishiba’s proposal for an Asian NATO stems from his belief that the absence of a collective defence alliance could lead to wars. It’s a step too far for India.

You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

Compete, coexist, confront & contest: Army chief General Dwivedi says on dealing with China

Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?