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Indonesia is now planning to build its first spaceport on a tropical island off the coast of easternmost Papua (AFP Photo)

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Indonesia-'s space aspirations root for country-'s own...

The country-'s space agency is a relative minnow, dwarfed in Asia by counterparts in Japan, China and India

3 March 2020 4:12 PM IST

Stubble burning is the source of much of the pollution in Delhi and Punjab. (PTI)

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From crop stubble to something useful, INST has the solution to...

Mohali-based nanoscience institute is working on ways to turn crop waste into bricks

3 March 2020 4:31 AM IST

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National Science Day: Do you know these Indian scientists?

The effect that brought India its first Nobel Prize in Physics and second Nobel Prize was based on the phenomenon of...

28 Feb 2020 12:35 PM IST

In this February 26, 2017 file photo, Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film Hidden Figures, poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film about pioneering black female aerospace workers, died Monday, February 24, 2020. (AP)

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Katherine Johnson, NASAâ€™s pioneering mathematician dies at 101

She was a pioneering female aerospace worker whose life was celebrated in the film Hidden Figures

24 Feb 2020 9:30 PM IST

A man who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus uses a laptop at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. AFP Photo

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Patients with existing conditions most prone to die from COVID-19:...

The novel Chinese coronavirus, or COVID-19, has so far killed over 1,800 individuals and infected more than 72,000...

18 Feb 2020 5:58 PM IST

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Solar Orbiter satellite in front of the Sun. On Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, NASA and the European Space Agency have planned to launch the spacecraft on a mission to the sun to get close-up views of its polar regions. (AP)

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Orbiter set to launch in mission to reveal Sun-'s secrets

This is the most ambitious exploration of the sun

10 Feb 2020 9:21 AM IST

$Sscientist is at work in the VirPath university laboratory, classified as \P3\ level of safety, on February 5, 2020 as they try to find an effective treatment against the new SARS-like coronavirus, which has already caused more than 560 deaths. - When most are busy developing vaccines or testing the few anti-virals available, VirPath will go after drugs used for diseases that have nothing to do with a respiratory infection such as 2019-nCoV. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)$ Science