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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicAsteroids

Topic: asteroids

Fossils found in Antarctica in 1980s belong to ‘giant, bony-toothed’ birds from 2.5m yrs ago

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

In first-ever cosmic game of ‘TAG’, NASA probe successfully touches asteroid to collect samples

Mohana Basu -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring back the rock samples from ancient asteroid Bennu by 2023, which will allow scientists to learn more about the ancient solar system.

2 IIT Bombay students discovered the asteroid that flew closest to Earth

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Great Barrier Reef faces third bleaching event & world’s oldest salamander in Siberia

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth’s oldest-known impact crater, formed 2.23 bn yrs ago, is in Australia: Geologists

Sandhya Ramesh -
The crater is in Yarrabubba in Western Australia. Scientists speculate the impact could have helped bring the Earth out of the ice age.

Slum boy to start-up founder — 19-yr-old to now help govt build astronomy labs in schools

Mohana Basu -
Aryan Mishra, who discovered an asteroid 5 years ago, builds low-cost labs in schools. His efforts recently caught the government's attention.

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter could be a new dwarf planet

Sandhya Ramesh -
The asteroid, named Hygiea, is the fourth largest asteroid that likely originated two billion years ago. 

An asteroid just whizzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time

Sandhya Ramesh -
The asteroid, labelled 2019 OK, is about the size of a large airplane. Had it hit, it could have wiped out an entire city.

An asteroid might be the reason why Earth has water

Monica Grady -
A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the solar system is probably a lot wetter than had previously been thought.

Giant asteroid has gold worth $700 quintillion. But it won’t make us richer

Noah Smith -
Asteroid 16 Psyche has enough gold to give everyone on Earth $93 billion. But it won’t remain precious if it hits the markets in large quantities.
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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