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[ad_1] This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 shows star 2MASS J17554042+6551277 used to align the mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope, with galaxies and stars surrounding it. (AP) NASA’s new space telescope has gazed into the distant universe and shown perfect vision: a spiky …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: In a big development, NASA has successfully launched the third in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-T, was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: A team led by Prof Sridharan Devarajan which is studying brain regions and mechanisms that mediate human attention so as to develop therapies for treating attention disorders, in its recent work, has identified how particular brain regions – both in the neocortex (outermost layer of the brain) as …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The International Space Station (ISS) will continue its operations until 2030 and will plunge into the most remote point in the Pacific Ocean in 2031, NASA confirmed in a new transition plan released this week. According to the space agency’s budget estimates, the ISS, launched in 1998, will …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), as a part of its continual efforts towards preservation of long-term sustainability of outer space, has decommissioned INSAT-4B through 11 manoeuvres that pushed the communication satellite into a desired orbit mandated by international guidelines. “INSAT-4B has undergone post mission disposal (PMD) at …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: A lab at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) will soon set up a National Centre of Excellence on Carbon Capture and Utilisation (NCCCU). This first of its kind centre that is being established will be the one of the two such centres being supported …

[ad_1] PUNE: A US research team co-led by an Indian-origin space scientist who once dabbled in Tamil movies claims to have found near-conclusive evidence that a “rocket stage” from a 2014 experimental Chinese lunar mission rather than Falcon 9, built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will slam into the far side …

[ad_1] Experts say it’s not likely that the highly transmissible variant – or any other variant – will lead to herd immunity. “Herd immunity is an elusive concept and doesn’t apply to coronavirus,” says Dr. Don Milton at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Herd immunity is when …

[ad_1] Experts say it’s not likely that the highly transmissible variant – or any other variant – will lead to herd immunity. “Herd immunity is an elusive concept and doesn’t apply to coronavirus,” says Dr. Don Milton at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Herd immunity is when …

[ad_1] Experts say it’s not likely that the highly transmissible variant – or any other variant – will lead to herd immunity. “Herd immunity is an elusive concept and doesn’t apply to coronavirus,” says Dr. Don Milton at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Herd immunity is when …