The crew on board Nasa’s Artemis II spacecraft have described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time. Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have entered the third day of their mission that will carry them around the far side of the…
Meet Karen Jenner: The woman who has removed over 31,000 pounds of ocean waste along Canada’s wild coastlineAlong the rugged shores of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, one woman has quietly taken on a task most would consider impossible. Karen Jenner, a volunteer environmental advocate, has spent years walking remote stretches of coastline,…
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) As the US heads back towards the moon and public curiosity over UFOs grows again, a familiar question has returned: if intelligent life exists elsewhere, what would it make of humans?That debate has picked up fresh momentum after former President Barack Obama said in February that aliens are “real”, while…
Artemis II is now on a looping path that will carry the crew around the far side of the Moon and back again. Source link
By the time I had walked over, they were beginning to distribute the prasaadam (consecrated food) consisting of cooling ingredients for summer such as a refreshing salad of cucumber and lentil (kosambari), buttermilk with a lot of onion and slices of watermelon. There was an immediate sense of being one with nature: Everyone was walking…
Nasa has released the first photographs from its Artemis II mission, offering a breathtaking view of Earth as the astronauts race toward the moon, marking humanity’s first journey beyond Earth orbit in more than five decades. The images showcase our blue planet’s radiant beauty as the crew approaches their lunar flyby.Downlinked Friday, just 1½ days…
A new frontier in biotechnology is beginning to blur the line between science fiction and reality. A startup backed by wealthy investors, including R3 Bio, is working on growing so-called “bodyoids”, human-like biological systems developed from stem cells but deliberately designed without brains. These structures are not conscious or sentient, yet they can potentially sustain…
Junmoni Gogoi, a resident of Bagchung block in Assam’s Jorhat district, remains guarded in front of the camera. A daily wage earner, Gogoi is a beneficiary of the state government’s scheme for marginalised women under which four million women were paid Rs 9,000 each, less than a month before the state goes to polls. As…
At the end of March, four greater one-horned rhinos were moved a fenced rehabilitation area into Dudhwa National Park’s core grassland habitat. Dudhwa’s rhino programme began in 1984-85, when rhinos from Assam and Nepal were brought to the reserve after the species had disappeared from much of its former range in the Terai. Independent…