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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
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Topic: NASA

Why two NASA space telescopes went offline in a week

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, will offer you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them. It’s your fix to stay on top of the latest in science. 

US silence over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance, and the bad Instagram business

Ethiopian PM does press-ups with protesting soldiers, and a new rule for overweight people in a Greek island. 

Junk in space is a huge threat to everything from Internet to GPS & weather forecasts

More than 20,000 satellites, rocket pieces and collision fragments are orbiting earth & present a clear and present danger to satellite operations.

Why you need to stop trusting the thermometer to gauge fever

ScientiFix, our new weekly feature, will offer you a summary of the top global science stories of the week

What is wrong with Bloomberg comparing Modi to JFK?

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As spacecraft finds lake on Mars, Earthlings may discover alien cousins

Enough meteorites have flown between here and Mars to open the possibility that we’ll find our own relatives up there.

When NASA probe kisses the Sun, a star will spill long-held secrets

Why are the fringes of the Sun's atmosphere hotter than the surface? The Parker Solar Probe may tell us.

NASA reaches for the Sun, and a mother whale in mourning in the Pacific

Dementia patients in the US are being given unapproved drugs 'with possibly fatal consequences', and China's crackdown.

Final draft of Assam NRC to be out today and Karunanidhi keeps everyone on edge

Front Page Narendra Modi isn’t scared of meeting industrialists in public. Speaking in Lucknow on Sunday, the PM said that industrialists, like farmers, artisans, bankers etc, also...

Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers the compelling question

Under Outer Space Treaty, moon & other celestial bodies such as asteroids can't become a 'territory' of one sovereign state or another.

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Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.