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Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on the earth from a rock formation in Canada
What happens when your mother was called the princess of parallelograms and your father one of the best poets history has seen? Lets dive into the life story of Ada Lovelace.
Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair
More than $500 million of the share sales took place this month as the California-based chip designer's share price climbed to an all-time high, the report said
A supersolid is an exotic phase of matter in which particles are arranged in a crystalline structure but also move like a non-viscous fluid
The findings suggest squids became important players in marine ecosystems long before the mass extinction 66 million years ago that wiped out dinosaurs
The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, carrying the GOSAT-GW satellite as part of Tokyo's effort to mitigate climate change. The satellite was released into a planned orbit about 16 minutes later
On June 29, 1995, American space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russian space station Mir. This not only marked the first docking of the space shuttle with Mir, but also formed what was the largest combined spacecraft ever in orbit at the time. Join A.S.Ganesh as he revisits this historic docking 30 years later
Air India flight AI 639, operating from Mumbai to Chennai, on Friday, June 27, made a precautionary air-return to Mumbai due to a burning smell in the cabin, the airline said in a statement
Dyson said that 62% of Indian respondents thought a vacuum cleaner with wet functionality would be the most effective method, yet they see that adoption remains quite low
The South Korean electronics major has also introduced Galaxy AI features like Circle to Search and Gemini Live in Galaxy M36 5G
Brazils Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks
This is the latest in a string of deals by Meta to meet the surging power demand of its data centers needed for artificial intelligence technologies using clean energy
Palantir Technologies said it was teaming up with a nuclear deployment company to develop an artificial intelligence-driven software system
Joy is the zero gravity indicator carried by the astronauts of the Axiom-4 mission which was selected because astronaut Shubhanshu Shuklas son Kiashs love for animals
French astronomer Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730. Messier published the Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. A quiz on his astronomical objects
Artificial intelligence can encourage democratisation, but also amplify sameness. Experts weigh in at advertisings biggest show
Soft capture of the Dragon spacecraft took place when the Space Station was passing over north Atlantic Ocean at 4:01 p.m. IST.
The veteran astronaut shared his thoughts on the day India returned to space after 41 years, as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla from India and three other astronauts set forth on a landmark space odyssey
During this journey, the Dragon crew vehicle, named Grace, will execute a series of burns to gradually raise and line up the Ax-4 crew for docking with the ISS in what is referred to as the activation and rendezvous phase of the flight
The targeted docking time at the orbiting laboratory is approximately 7 a.m. Eastern Time (4.30 p.m. IST) on June 26. The Axiom Mission 4 crew will spend up to 14 days at the ISS.
A percentage is a straightforward measure of how much a student scores out of the total possible marks. A percentile, on the other hand, is a relative measure
Candida tropicalis, an important fungal pathogen in India and in many other parts of the world, has been found using chromosome alterations to resist common anti-fungal drugs such as fluconazole and voriconazole
Accessible to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel with Copilot+PCs, Mu responds to natural language queries
Tesla tiptoed into its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas on Sunday with about 10 of its Model Y SUVs
On June 22, 1978, Charon was discovered by U.S. astronomer James Christy. Considered by most scientists as the largest of dwarf planet Plutos five moons, there are others who refer to the Pluto-Charon duo as a double dwarf planet system. A.S.Ganesh ferries you across to Charon, telling you more about it and its discovery
Administrative reform is essential for India to make advances
Instead of extracting T cells and engineering them in a lab, researchers have delivered mRNA directly into circulating immune cells, improving treatment outcomes and cutting cost
A new date will be announced in the coming days.
India has only a handful of institutions such as IISc, NCBS, TIFR, IISERs and IITs that can possibly attract U.S. scientists, and even they are world class only in some very specific areas, he says
The court ruled that ACM was right in finding that dating app providers had to use Apple's own payment system, were not allowed to refer to payment options outside the App Store, and had to pay a 30% commission (15% for small providers) to Apple
On June 12, NASA said the NASA-ISRO SAR mission had arrived at ISROs spaceport in Sriharikota
Long COVID, or technically post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, refers to symptoms that continue for weeks or months after the initial illness clears. A new study has tried to find out why some people develop long COVID while others recover quickly
The test conducted on Saturday in collaboration with Thrust Tech India Limited saw the rocket ascend 1.1 km at 5:14:33 p.m., a complete success
The first person to receive step-and-shoot SPArc was a 46-year-old woman whose parotid-gland cancer had spread along her facial nerve towards the base of her skull
On June 14-15, 1919, aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown carried out what was the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Join A.S.Ganesh as he takes you on this historic flight that took place in the early years of aviation
The Axiom Space mission was to blast-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on June 11, but had to be delayed first due to a fuel leak in SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket and then due to a leak in the Russian section of the International Space Station (ISS).
The collaboration will be instrumental in advancing clinical development of a dengue monoclonal antibody in Brazil and potentially other endemic countries in Southeast Asia, with a focus on making treatment affordable and accessible, SII Executive Director Dr. Prasad Kulkarni said
Earlier this year, Boeing celebrated 787-8 aircraft worldwide carrying 1 billion passengers in 30 million flight-hours.
Both companies will also explore building new Small Modular Reactors within Talen's Pennsylvania footprint and pursue expanding the nuclear plant's energy output
OpenAI plans to add Alphabet's Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, three sources told Reuters
Netflixs Titan: The OceanGate Disaster documentary is set to shed light on the 2023 submersible implosion that claimed five lives and made headlines worldwide
Originally scheduled for the launch on Tuesday (June 10, 2025), the mission was postponed to Wednesday due to weather conditions
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment closely observed the disintegration of molecular tritium to estimate the neutrino mass
The keyboard we use today follows a specific layout that has remained largely unchanged for over a hundred years. But have you ever wondered why the alphabets arent arranged in simple alphabetical order? Why do we use the seemingly random QWERTY format instead?
At this point in time, it seems like every subfield of physics will soon use AI and ML to help solve their toughest problems
While bacteria can evolve to be resistant to a phage, phages too can evolve to avoid bacterial resistance
India is hailed for eliminating leprosy two decades ago, but modern effects of climate stress and poverty may lead to its reappearance might help it reappear