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NASA’s Artemis II moon mission is carrying 5 million names with it to space

NASA also launched a social media campaign, titled '#NASAMoonCrew', inviting people to upload pictures of themselves watching the Artemis II launch with their own ‘crew’.

Artemis II and its toilet troubles. It failed after takeoff

The toilet was a project that was decades in the making—and it began right after the Apollo 11 mission, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to defecate in plastic bags.

India’s reproductive cancer burden is complex. HPV vaccination drive alone isn’t enough

The Global Cancer Observatory predicts that cancer cases will rise to 32.6 million worldwide by 2045, with India already carrying the third-highest cancer burden globally.

To the Moon and beyond—NASA gears up for first Moon mission in 50 years with Artemis II

The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration will send three American astronauts and one Canadian astronaut on a 10-day Artemis II mission to 'fly by' the Moon.

ISRO’s PSLV debris found near Tamil Nadu. Scientists unclear on which mission it belonged to

A three-member team from ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram are now inspecting the debris.

Iranian Kaveh Madani wins Stockholm Water Prize. Tehran had called him water terrorist

This is the first time that a UN official and a former politician has been awarded the Stockholm Prize. It has earlier honoured people like Rajendra Singh of the Tarun Bharat Sangh in 2015, and the CSE in 2005.

India’s semiconductor market to grow to $120 billion by 2030, says Deloitte study

By 2035, mobile phones, automotive, computing, and data centres are expected to account for over 70% of India’s total semiconductor demand, states the report by Deloitte.

Rhinos roamed all of north India 3,000 years ago. How did they get confined to Kaziranga

Researchers from Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences mapped how the population and movement of rhinos were impacted by human activities and climatic conditions.

Kerala’s Vela carli crab specimens have both male and female reproductive organs

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India and MES Mampad College of Calicut studied the anatomy of more than a hundred Vela carli crabs collected in Kerala.

India’s NavIC is not fully functional even after 27 years—military loses the most

Last week, ISRO confirmed that the atomic clock on board the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System-1F—the first generation of the NavIC satellites—had stopped functioning.

On Camera

India has enough coal stocks to meet power demand, says govt as war pushes up mining costs

LPG supply eased for more industries, govt says coal gasification is next growth avenue. Centre welcomes US-Iran ceasefire but asks Indians to leave Iran.

Western theatre against Pakistan to be headed by IAF, Northern theatre under Army to focus on China

India's military to get Vice Chief of Defence Staff along with one Theatre Commander from each of three services, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.