Month: January 2019

CMB Bharat, cosmic microwave background, CMB radiation, ESA Planck, NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP, Milky Way, astrophysics, Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO, gravitational waves, India-based Neutrino Observatory, dark matter, baryons, observable universe, LIGO, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, power detectors, Big Bang,

Indian Cosmologists Propose New Space Experiment to Gaze at Universe’s Dawn

The Wire Staff 27/01/2019

CMB Bharat will study radiation leftover from the time...

Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, molecular biology, structural biology, ribosomes, Ada Yonath, Thomas Steitz, double helix, DNA, James Watson, Nobel Prize, Nobelitis, Alexander Gann,

Interview: Venki Ramakrishnan and the Race to Decode the Mother of All Molecules

Karthik Ramaswamy 27/01/2019

A conversation about 'Gene Machine', the strange business of...

ISRO Gaganyaan, Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO, GSLV Mk III, kerolox, hydrolox, cryogenic engine, cryogenic upper stage, semi-cryogenic engine, SC120 core stage, SC200 core stage, Vikas 2 engine, C20 cryogenic engine, C32 cryogenic engine, AS Kiran Kumar, L110 core stage, S200 booster, liquefied hydrogen, RP-1, Isrosene, liquefied oxygen geostationary transfer orbit, SpaceX Falcon 9, specific impulse, thrust, Arianespace, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, reusable launch vehicle,

The ISRO Tender Notice With Fascinating New Details of Gaganyaan

The Wire Staff 26/01/2019

Two new semi-cryogenic core stages, a new variant of...

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More Than Half of Leprosy Cases Reported From India: WHO

India was however lauded for repealing legislations that discriminated...

File photo of a girl receiving polio vaccine drops at a government dispensary in a Karachi slum

No Shortage of Polio Vaccines in the Country: Health Ministry

The ministry said the polio National Immunisation Day (NID)...

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ISRO Successfully Launches Military Satellite ‘Microsat-R’

C.P. Balasubramanyam 25/01/2019

The satellite was launched on Thursday night from the...

forest cover, mining rights, mining license, Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority, CAMPA funds, Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Act 2016, NITI Aayog, Parivesh, single window clearance, canopy density, New India 2022, Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

Centre’s, and NITI Aayog’s, Vision for 2022 Is Founded on Quiet Contradictions

Rishika Pardikar 25/01/2019

A strategic document says India ought to increase forest...