The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity. It is located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world. This provides security of...
A team of astronomers has observed the first radiation belt outside our solar system, using an array of 39 radio dishes. The radiation belt, found around an ultracool dwarf, is similar to Jupiter's but 10 million times brighter. The discovery was made by a team led by Melodie Kao of...
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is back on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in India after a nearly six-month ban. The game was banned in September 2020 along with 118 other Chinese apps by the Indian government. The ban was imposed due to security concerns. Krafton, the South...
Maharajas' Express: This train is one of the most luxurious trains in India. It offers a variety of amenities, including air-conditioned coaches, en-suite bathrooms, and a dining car that serves fine Indian cuisine. The Maharajas' Express travels to some of the most popular tourist destinations in India, including Agra, Jaipur, and...
China Begins Digging a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into the Earth (The Daily Beast) Why is China digging a 10-km-deep hole into Earth's crust? (dailyO) China Is Digging A 10,000 Meter Hole Into The Earth To Reach The Cretaceous System (IFLScience) China begins drilling a 10-kilometer-deep hole in Earth's crust (India Today) The project is being...
China is drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) deep hole into the Earth's crust in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang province. The project, called the China Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (CDUSL), is expected to take 10 years to complete. The CDUSL is a major scientific project that will help...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a 9,000 km long water plume erupting from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The plume was first detected by the Cassini spacecraft in 2005, but JWST's observations are the first to provide such a detailed view of the source of the...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has honoured aerospace legend late Prof Roddam Narasimha by naming the 0.5-metre diameter hypersonic wind tunnel after him. The naming ceremony was held on May 28, 2023, and was attended by the Chairmen of DRDO and ISRO. Prof Narasimha was a pioneer in the...
Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar mission, and it is considered to be the most difficult mission yet for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). There are a number of reasons for this: The mission will involve a soft landing on the lunar surface, which is a very challenging task. The...
An inertial navigation system (INS) is a navigation device that uses motion sensors (accelerometers), rotation sensors (gyroscopes) and a computer to continuously calculate by dead reckoning the position, the orientation, and the velocity (direction and speed of movement) of a moving object without the need for external references. Often the...
