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Can Jupiter’s moon with water ocean support life? NASA spacecraft begins 5.5-yr voyage to find out

The Europa Clipper orbiter mission will travel over 2.9 billion km to reach Jupiter’s moon by April 2030. It will probe Europa’s water dynamics & chemical processes to study habitability.

15,500-18,500 stubble fires predicted in Punjab, Haryana this winter, unless on-ground action ramps up

NASA scientist analysed area of paddy sown in the states using NASA’s MODIS Aqua satellite. He added that proactive measures by govt could reduce number of stubble fires significantly.

Cosmology is at a tipping point–world may be on the verge of discovering new physics

The door is now open to all sorts of ideas that challenge even the most basic tenets of cosmology.

Boeing’s Starliner returns to Earth without NASA astronauts Sunita Willams, Butch Wilmore

Thruster failures on Boeing's Starliner turned an 8-day test into an 8-month ordeal, leaving NASA astronauts Wilmore and Williams stuck on ISS until a planned return on SpaceX in 2025.

Canada’s wildfires last yr emitted more carbon in 5 months than most major industrial nations annually

The study, led by NASA-JPL scientists and published in Nature, used observational data from a European Space Agency satellite to quantify carbon emissions from these megafires.

How Tripura deluge has exposed chinks in India’s flood prevention mechanism

Flagging 'missed warnings, delayed release of dam water', experts say India needs impact-based forecasting systems, emphasise accurate predictions require more than just rainfall data.

How a collision with NASA spacecraft may have knocked an asteroid moon off course & out of shape

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

Delhi Amity School students wrote $36bn space dream. NASA took note, gave them a grand prize

Inspired by Chandrayaan, Amity Pushp Vihar students helped design a lunar settlement that eclipsed global rivals. They got top prize at International Space Settlement Design Competition.

To avoid eclipses, joint NASA-ISRO observatory NISAR won’t take flight before February 2025

NASA & ISRO’s NISAR observatory will map entire globe in 12 days, gathering data on Earth's ecosystems, ice mass, sea level rise & natural hazards including earthquakes.

Mars may have oceans’ worth of water underground, but this doesn’t mean it’s ready to be colonised

A study published in journal PNAS indicates that 3 bn yrs ago, much of the water on Mars percolated through soil & got stored in the crust, but this water remains largely inaccessible.

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Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.