Science/Technology

Stockholm: Three scientists, Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday."These smallest components of...

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) which is gearing up for its first Solar exploratory mission to study the dynamic sun with the planned Aditya-L1 satellite using PSLV in the coming days, said the study of the sun...

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)on Wednesday said the preparation for the maiden mission to explorethe Sun, scheduled on September two from the spaceport of Sriharikota,was progressing and the launch rehearsal was completed.The Aditya-L1 satellite, which will be...

Bengaluru: Pragyan rover has ramped down from Vikram lander and has taken a walk on the moon, ISRO said after the successful and historic soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole of the Moon."Made in India, Made for...

Chennai: The soft landing of India's third Lunar missionChandrayaan-3 on the South Polar region of the moon will take place as scheduled there is no postponement or any alternative plans, according to ISRO Chairman Dr.S.Somanath.Ahead of the soft landing...

Moscow: Preliminary calculations show that Russia's Luna-25 module went into an unplanned orbit and crashed into the Moon, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday, adding that the spacecraft ceased to exist."Based on the results of preliminary analysis,...

Beijing: China has launched the disaster monitoring satellite L-SAR4 01, the world's first high-orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Sunday.The launch took place at 1:26...

Beijing: A new ultra-wideband radar life detector has passed the field test, the Science and Technology Daily reported on Friday.The detection signal of the detector can penetrate non-metallic material such as a brick wall, a wood panel, concrete, and...

Kathmandu: The glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya disappeared 65 percent faster in 2011-2020 than in the previous decade, and the changes driven by global warming to the region's glaciers, snow and permafrost are "unprecedented and largely irreversible," said...

Sriharikota: In a dedicated commercial mission, ISRO's workhose launch vehicle PSLV-C55 today successfully launched two Singapore satellites in the intended orbit from the SHAR Range, here.After a 25-hour countdown, the 44.4 m four tall homegrown rocket, with a lift...