Indian Astronaut-designate Shubhanshu Shukla will lead these experiments on India's behalf. Mission to lift-off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, next month.
The 15-second clip of a ginger tabby named Taters has become the first ultra-high definition streaming video beamed from space. It took only 101 seconds to reach Earth.
The company aims to use brain-computer interface technology to treat brain diseases & enhance human capabilities with a chip implanted in the brain. But it faces ethical & scientific challenges.
Scientists at Pasteur Institute in France conducted experiments with bat virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 & tried to spur evolution of a mutation that could cause it to adapt to human cells.
Nanoscience isn’t magic, it’s a mirror of what nature has already created. But like other major fields, it requires the usual steady research & development.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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