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Topic: NASA

It’s confirmed. This 93-million-year-old crocodile once ate a dinosaur, albeit a juvenile one

Mohana Basu - 20 February, 2022

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

Found in Australia — a ‘true’ millipede with more than 1,000 legs

Mohana Basu - 19 December, 2021

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

NASA picks up Indian-origin doctor Anil Menon as astronaut for future missions

PTI - 7 December, 2021

Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

NASA launches DART mission to crash into asteroid, results could help defend Earth some day

Sandhya Ramesh - 24 November, 2021

The DART mission will crash a space probe into the asteroid Dimorphos to test human capability to protect the planet against near earth objects.

This quasi-satellite of Earth could actually be a piece of Moon, astronomers say

Sandhya Ramesh - 13 November, 2021

Quasi-satellites are asteroids that orbit the Sun with orbital period similar to that of the Earth’s. From Earth’s perspective, they appear to orbit the Earth instead.

How artificial cells could gobble up bacteria, deliver medicines

Mohana Basu - 12 September, 2021

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

How Indian teen became a NASA ‘panelist’ and almost got away with it

Mohana Basu - 26 August, 2021

US space agency explains what happened in the case of Diksha Shinde, 14-year-old who made news last week for being selected as a panelist for NASA's MSI Fellowships Virtual Panel.

Indian teen finds fame as NASA panelist, but social media fact check claims ANI report is fake

Revathi Krishnan - 21 August, 2021

ANI report says Diksha Shinde was selected by NASA as a panelist for its MSI Fellowships Virtual Panel, but people point out discrepancies on Twitter. ANI stands by report.

Water lakes were found at Martian South Pole in 2018. New findings say it was frozen clay instead

Sandhya Ramesh - 31 July, 2021

In 3 papers published over a month, different teams reanalysed the 2018 Mars Express orbiter data to state that frozen clay, not salt water lakes, produced radar signals.

This star’s death billions of years ago is challenging what we know about supernovae

Sandhya Ramesh - 28 July, 2021

A gamma ray burst lasting 0.65 seconds was spotted from a dying star last year, challenging the theory that these short bursts of energy are produced only by star mergers.

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Will US craft a new oil compact with Saudi Arabia? Joe Biden may have to eat his own words

Praveen Swami - 29 June, 2022

Like many, India will be anxiously watching the US-Saudi Arabia summit in Jeddah—knowing its fate is tied to the decisions King Salman and Joe Biden make.