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The strawberry supermoon rises behind the village of Imerovigli on Sandorini’s caldera, in Greece’s Cyclades islands, on June 14, 2022. | Photo Credit: Petros Giannakouris The Strawberry Moon, traditionally named after the strawberry harvest season in North America, will peak at 3:44 a.m. EDT on June 11, 2025, equivalent to 1:14 p.m. IST. Although the full phase…
Google Chrome Security Alert: In today’s fast-moving tech landscape, millions of users have been put on high alert after Google confirmed a critical security flaw in its widely used Chrome browser. In India, the urgency is even at another level. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information…
OnePlus has confirmed that its mid-range Nord series will be launched in India at the Summer Launch event on 8 July. At the special event, OnePlus will unveil two new smartphones: the OnePlus Nord 5 and the OnePlus Nord CE 5. Although official details about the Nord 5 will only be revealed at the launch…
A tiger and a dog trapped in a pit on a cardamom plantation at Kadukkacity, near Nettithozu, in Idukki on Sunday Everybody wondered why the tiger didn’t eat the dog — after all, they were stuck barely a foot apart in a deep pit on a private cardamom plantation at Kadukkacity in Vandanmedu grama panchayat…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has removed all the much touted promotional material and the blogpost around the $6.5 billion acquisition of former Apple designer Jonny Ive’s AI startup. While one would assume that’s owing to some resistance in the deal, that’s not the case here with reports suggesting that a trademark dispute could have led to…
(From L-R): Axiom-4 (Ax4) crew members, Specialist Tibor Kapu from Hungary, mission pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, mission commander Peggy Whitson and and Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland. Photo: X/@SpaceX The launch of Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has once again been postponed. The Axiom-4 Mission to the ISS, which was scheduled…
Heeng or asafoetida (Ferula assa-foetida) is an essential ingredient in many Indian cuisines. A pinch of heeng is typically added to hot oil before other constituents when cooking. Despite the great diversity of India’s cuisines, most of them have recipes with heeng. There are mentions of heeng in ancient Indian texts including the Mahabharata and…
The team focused on what the BBX32 gene does in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Markus Spiske/Unsplash Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, have found that a single protein helps plants time their first step from darkness into light. When a seed sprouts in…
After a decade of unfulfilled promises, Elon Musk’s Tesla finally began rolling out its driverless Robotaxi service in Austin. However, the first few rides were limited to a select group of social media influencers and content creators who are considered to be close to the company. Musk announced on X that the initial riders are…
Manzoor, U., Mujica Roncery, L., Raabe, D. et al, ‘Sustainable nickel enabled by hydrogen-based reduction’, Nature 641, 365–373 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08901-7 Nickel powers everything, from gadgets to green technologies. But getting it currently involves a far from green, in fact, a dirty process. However, a new study has revealed what its authors have said is a…
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Traditional livestock production systems have severe environmental consequences, including high greenhouse gas emissions, extensive land and water use, and risk of fostering antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Together with the steadily rising demand for nutrition, global and regional food systems have been exploring alternative ways to sustainably maintain their supply chains. Insect-based feed has emerged as one…
The Axiom-4 mission, carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station, has been postponed to June 11 due to weather conditions. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Even as the launch of Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has once again been postponed, agencies associated with launch…
India could be technologically capable of “quantum communication” using satellites in the “next half a decade” Professor Bhaskar Kanseri of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, whose team recently reported an instance of quantum key distribution one kilometre apart — the farthest such transmission in India, without any connecting cables — told The Hindu in…
Shubhanshu Shukla | Photo Credit: Visveswaran V Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force is set to be the first Indian in over four decades to travel to space and board the International Space Station (ISS), with liftoff scheduled for June 11 as part of Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission. The flight, launching from…
Today, almost every keyboard we use — whether it’s on your personal computer or phone — follows the QWERTY layout. But did you know this arrangement wasn’t the obvious choice when typewriters were first invented? The origins of the typewriter The story of the QWERTY layout begins with the invention of the mechanical typewriter in…
