Month: April 2016

The PSLV-XL, in its 13th mission and the PSLV's 35th overall, lifts off carrying the IRNSS 1G satellite. Source: ISRO

ISRO Launches Last Piece of India’s Own GPS-Lite

Sandhya Ramesh 28/04/2016

The IRNSS is expected to go live and functional...

A group of lemurs at Colchester Zoo, England. Credit: jans canon/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Lemurs Lost and Found: New Species Discovered but the Primates Face Extinction

Vrushal Pendharkar 28/04/2016

Each new species contributes another piece to the puzzle...

Abdul Rehman Reshi, 62, was taking a daily walk outside Takia, near Srinagar, when he was attacked by a black bear and left injured and unconscious. Credit: Shams Ul Haq Qari

Territorial Conflict is Growing Between Humans and Wildlife in Kashmir

Majid Maqbool 28/04/2016

As Kashmir’s forests are converted into orchards, croplands and...

Inside the Dragon capsule. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Plans to Land Capsule on Mars in 2018

The Wire Staff 27/04/2016

The private spaceflight company also hinted that the capsules...

The tree hole breeding frog. Credit: S.D. Biju

Frogs, Birds, Lizards: What’s Behind the Spate of New Discoveries in India?

Richa Malhotra 27/04/2016

From frogs to lizards, we have plenty of new...

Heads Up: Intact Skull Sheds Light on Big, Long-Necked Dinosaurs

Will Dunham 27/04/2016

CT scans of the skull revealed its (Sarmientosaurus') brain...

A cluster of JCVI-syn3.0 cells, showing spherical structures of varying sizes. Each of these cells possesses Craig Venter's 'minimal genome' of 475 genes. Source: 10.1126/science.aad6253

What We’re Looking for When We’re Looking for the Smallest Set of Genes Essential for Life

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/04/2016

Many bacterial genomes carry genes essential to life as...