BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has completed transportation of its antenna to be installed at the telemetry, tracking and command (TTC) for the station it is setting up in Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Island for tracking of the Gaganyaan orbital module.TOI was the first to report that Isro and the Australian Space Agency (ASA)…
MUMBAI: India’s trade and energy supplies face fresh risks after reinsurers and Protection & Indemnity (P&I) clubs announced cancellation of war risk insurance for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian waters, following an escalation in the Iran conflict. The cancellations, effective from this week, have left over 150 vessels stranded and disrupted a…
New Delhi: For many people, ageing brings small lapses in memory. A forgotten name, a misplaced key. For others, memory loss becomes something more serious. Yet, some in their 80s remain as sharp as they were decades earlier.A paper published in the journal, ‘Nature’, suggests one reason for this may lie deep inside the brain’s…
Stephen Hawking quote of the day Stephen Hawking remains one of the most widely read scientists in the world, not only because of his work on black holes and cosmology, but also because of how he spoke about life. Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease when he was 21 years old. He lived with…
About 27 million tons of Saharan dust deliver roughly 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon annually/ Image: NASA In 2015, scientists reported evidence that vast plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert help replenish phosphorus in the Amazon rainforest, linking the world’s largest desert to its largest rainforest through what researchers described as one…
Russia on Tuesday claimed that India has signalled “renewed interest” in importing larger volumes of Russian crude oil as disruptions mount in global energy supplies following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz after US and Israeli strikes on Iran.The Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil shipping chokepoint, has been facing disruptions after…
For centuries, the forests of western Himalayas have quietly recorded every wet spring and every failed one. This record can be found in the rings trees form annually. If winter and spring precipitation is good, the trees grow wider rings. When it fails, the rings narrow.And when scientists studied this ancient data, one year stood…
NEW DELHI: The railways is looking at bearing the nearly Rs 90,000 crore additional (83% escalation) cost for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project and won’t seek further loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project cost has increased from Rs 1.1 lakh crore to Rs 1.98 lakh crore because of delays and other reasons.The…
For long, it has been a puzzle: How did chins form in humans? We’re the only primates to have the protrusion, a small piece of bone extending from the jaw. Even our closest relatives – the extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans – didn’t have chins. Sure, they walked on two legs, were known to have complex…
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has unveiled a solar-powered machine capable of extracting up to 1,000 litres of clean drinking water per day from dry desert air, a breakthrough that could reshape how the world tackles water scarcity. Professor Omar Yaghi, a materials scientist at University of California, Berkeley, developed the system using metal-organic frameworks, or…