SCIENCE & RESEARCH

China’s new space carrier rocket successfully launches five satellites on its maiden flight

4:46 pm December 22, 2020

Beijing : China‘s new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March-8 made its maiden flight on Tuesday, sending five satellites successfully into planned orbit, the country’s space agency said. The rocket was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan. The five experimental satellites will carry out the in-orbit verification of microwave imaging and other technologies. They will conduct experiments […]

Jupiter, Saturn ‘merge’ in rare cosmic event

10:40 pm December 21, 2020

Kolkata: Space enthusiasts had the opportunity to watch a rare celestial event on Monday evening as the Jupiter and the Saturn appeared to merge and looked like a single bright star, in what is called a conjunction. People gathered to watch the phenomenon, which took place after about 400 years, on rooftops and open grounds in different […]

Men have 30 pc higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women: Study

2:10 pm December 20, 2020

Boston: Men have a 30 per cent higher risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to women of the same age and health status, according to a new study which analysed the link between common patient characteristics and the risk of dying from the novel coronavirus infection. Hospitalised COVID-19 patients have a greater risk of dying […]

Team co-led by Indian scientists solve 100-year-old mystery of how malaria affects brain

6:29 pm December 16, 2020

New Delhi: Using brain imaging techniques, scientists, including those from The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in Odisha, have unravelled the century old mystery of how malaria affects the brain, an advance which reveals how the deadly disease causes different outcomes in adults and children. According to the researchers, cerebral malaria is a […]

Japan space agency confirms asteroid soil inside capsule

10:18 pm December 14, 2020

Tokyo: Japan’s space agency said Monday it has confirmed the presence of black soil samples inside a capsule that the spacecraft Hayabusa2 brought back from a distant asteroid last week. The pan-shaped capsule, 40 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter, was dropped by Hayabusa2 from space onto a spot in a sparsely populated Australian desert on […]