Jerusalem: Barely two weeks into its historic journey to the Moon, Israel’s first spacecraft has taken a selfie of the Earth from a distance of 37,600 km. The unmanned craft, called “Beresheet” (meaning genesis in Hebrew), took the photograph during a slow spin, Israeli non-profit SpaceIL tweeted on Tuesday. Besides Australia, the selfie also showed […]
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84% of Indian politicians’ websites insecure: Study
New Delhi: At a time when the website of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) remained inaccessible to users for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, a new study has revealed that 84 per cent of Indian politicians’ websites are insecure. While a quarter of the politicians have their own websites in India, 83.87 per […]
Earth is flat, said YouTube
San Francisco : In a major goof-up, popular video-sharing platform YouTube projected it upon impressionable minds that — the Earth is flat — raising the number of people who now seriously believe the planet to be a flat unending stretch of land, a study said. The fact which is to the contrary was proved almost […]
After 750 mn, hacker puts 93 mn more users’ data on sale
San Francisco : The hacker who earlier stole and posted data of close to 750 million users of various popular websites on a Dark Web marketplace has now put up the third set of nearly 93 million hacked databases for sale. According to a report on zdnet.com late Sunday, the hacker this time is selling […]
‘Lab-grown liver’ raises hopes for acute liver failure patients
Bengaluru : Researchers in Hyderabad claim to have developed a promising technology for creating in the lab “implantable bioengineered humanized” livers for the management of acute liver failure (ALF), one of the most devastating fatal conditions. The technology, successfully demonstrated in animal experiments, “has enormous potential for clinical translation” in managing ALF patients desperately waiting […]
Earth may not appear as blue by 2100: MIT study
New York : Owing to climate change surface of the oceans will change colour by end of 21st century leading our blue planet to look visibly altered, finds a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton — the tiny sea creatures — […]
Gigantic hole in Antarctic glacier signals rapid decay: NASA
Washington : A team of scientists from the US space agency NASA has discovered a gigantic hole made from 14 billion tons of ice melt, particularly in the last three years, in a West Antarctica glacier. This indicates rapid decay of the ice sheet and acceleration in rising global sea levels due to climate change. […]
India unveils human space flight centre in Bengaluru
Bengaluru | The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre here. “Human Space Flight Centre is operational now… The facility is next to ISRO headquarters,” the city-based space agency tweeted. The Centre is dedicated to developing critical technologies for human space missions. The facility, unveiled […]
India puts into orbit satellite ‘Microsat R’ for DRDO and ‘Kalamsat’
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) | India on Thursday night opened the year’s space campaign by putting into orbit defence imaging satellite “Microsat R” for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in a copy book style. The notable aspects of this space mission are flying of a new variant of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), switching […]
India’s PSLV rocket lifts off with defence and student satellites
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) | A new variant of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket on Thursday night lifted off with the country’s defence imaging satellite “Microsat R” and student satellite “Kalamsat”. About 14 minutes into the flight, the rocket would eject Microsat R at an altitude of about 277 km. “There is an increased […]