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The Megha-Tropiques-1 is a joint Indo-French satellite launched in 2011 for tropical weather and climate studies. Photo: ceres.larc.nasa.gov

ISRO to undertake controlled re-entry experiment of decommissioned satellite on March 7

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The last image to contain a complete view of asteroid Didymos (top left) and its moonlet, Dimorphos, about 2.5 minutes before the impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft, taken by the on board DRACO imager from a distance of 920 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022.

Science This Week | Success of NASA’s DART mission, Asian megacities at risk from sea level rise and more

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The architecture of an organoid intelligence system for biological computing.

Explained | What are ‘bio-computers’ and what can they tell us about the human brain?

Scrub typhus: combination therapy can save more lives

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact in this image taken by DART’s on board DRACO imager from a distance of 68 kilometers, and released September 26, 2022.

Hubble captures a time-lapse movie of DART collision: NASA

This photo taken during the early hours of February 20, 2023 shows a hatchling leatherback sea turtle sprinting towards the water after being released by the Thai Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, on Bang Khwan Beach in Thailand’s coastal province of Phang Nga.

Hatching leatherback turtles get helping hand on Thai beach

This undated photo provided by Micha Podsiad shows an overview of the archaeological excavations in Malomirovo, Bulgaria. Archaeologists have identified the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding an innovation that would transform human history in 5,000 year old skeletons in central Europe.

First evidence for horseback riding dates back 5,000 years

This photo provided by Timothy Mousseau in February 2023 shows a dog in the Chernobyl area of Ukraine. More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl roam among decaying, abandoned buildings in and around the closed plant – somehow still able to find food, breed and survive.

Can the dogs of Chernobyl teach us new tricks on survival?

A view of the Puducherry coastline. Sea level rise this century may disproportionately affect certain Asian megacities as well as western tropical Pacific islands and the western Indian Ocean, according to a new research.

Chennai, Kolkata, in India, at particular risk due to sea level rise: Study

Researcher Mikael Larsson examines samples of saffron found after nearly 500 years on the seabed on the wreck of the Gribshunden, a ship that sank in 1495 off Sweden’s Baltic coast, as he works in a laboratory in Lund University , Denmark, March 2, 2023.

Archaeologists find well-preserved 500-year-old spices on Baltic shipwreck

A group of scientists have come up with a solution where healthy skin cells from an adult can be converted into heart cells using special proteins. Image for Representation.

IIT Guwahati scientists use proteins to repair damaged heart cells

Kunjari Mog holds up a Foldscope with which he and P. Anbazhagan studied soil grain shapes.

Can a low-cost paper microscope find wider use in research?

Vasudevan Mukunth