Month: February 2017

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Watch: All You Need To Know About ISRO’s PSLV C37 Mission – 1 Launch, 104 Satellites

The Wire Staff 14/02/2017

The PSLV C37 mission, scheduled for February 15, will...

Radioactive Cans

When ‘Energy’ Drinks Actually Contained Radioactive Energy

Timothy J. Jorgensen 14/02/2017

Back in the early 1900s, if you felt a...

bees and drones

Robot Bees vs Real Bees – Why Tiny Drones Can’t Compete With the Real Thing

Elizabeth Franklin 14/02/2017

Researchers in Japan have been exploring the potential of...

Black holes, monsters in space

Black Holes Are Even Stranger Than You Can Imagine

Alister Graham 14/02/2017

Black holes have fascinated the human mind since they...

The supernova 2013fs located in a blue, star-forming area (the red point sources in the vicinity are foreground stars), which is apparently a part of one of the major arms of the spiral host NGC 7610. Caption and credit: doi:10.1038/nphys4025

Astronomers Catch Star Just Six Hours After it Goes Supernova

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/02/2017

They also found the dying star had begun to...

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Beyond Drought: Tamil Nadu’s Chain of Misfortunes

Seetha Gopalakrishnan 13/02/2017

Tamil Nadu continues to witness cycles of flood and...

dwarf lemur

New Species of Dwarf Lemur Discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 13/02/2017

The newly discovered Ankarana or Sheth’s dwarf lemur is...