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Ricin poison ‘terror plot’: What is ricin, and why a few milligrams can be fatal | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Nov 14, 2025 06:54 AM IST Earlier this week, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested three men — including a doctor with a “Chinese medical degree” – for allegedly trying to produce a lethal chemical compound called Ricin. The accused were allegedly planning a terror attack, ...
Sentinel-6B : new satellite to observe ocean | Explained News
[ad_1] 2 min readNew DehiUpdated: Nov 18, 2025 01:35 PM IST Sentinel-6B was launched on Monday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It is an ocean-tracking satellite with six onboard science instruments that will measure the rising sea levels and its impacts on the planet. Sentinel-6B will orbit ...
What is an interstellar object?
[ad_1] 5 min readNew DelhiNov 21, 2025 03:07 PM IST The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Wednesday (November 19) released new images of Comet 3I/Atlas, an interstellar object that astronomers have determined is billions of years old. The new images come from a wide range of NASA missions, ...
Why Saturn’s rings will appear to have vanished this Sunday | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiNov 23, 2025 02:49 PM IST There are few sights in the Solar System as majestic as the rings of Saturn. But on Sunday (November 23), these rings will “disappear” — though only briefly. While the vanishing will not be total, it could be a rare ...
Moss spores survive months in space: Why is this significant?
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiNov 23, 2025 04:38 PM IST A team of scientists has found that moss can survive a prolonged trip to space. As part of a study, a handful of moss spores survived nine months exposed to low-orbit conditions, with 80% of them still able to reproduce ...
From gene modification to genome editing – India’s journey | Explained News
[ad_1] Cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in India has not progressed beyond cotton. Even there, no new technology has been approved for commercialisation since Monsanto’s Bollgard-II Bt cotton in May 2006. But this isn’t so with genome edited (GE) crops. In May, two GE rice lines were identified for ...
Why do pigeons have a good sense of direction? | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiNov 24, 2025 05:55 PM IST Scientists have long known that pigeons navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. However, several questions remain unresolved about this process. For instance, how do pigeons detect magnetic fields? Which brain circuits process the information? And where in the body is ...
Hayli Gubbi volcanic eruption in Ethiopia: Everything you need to know
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Study detects uranium in breast milk: Its findings, why experts have questioned its validity | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Nov 25, 2025 07:00 PM IST Experts have flagged issues with a recent study, which raised alarm over the presence of uranium in the breast milk of lactating mothers in Bihar. The study, published last Friday in the open-access Scientific Reports journal, detected uranium in ...
Why some volcanoes spew gas & ash, others lava
[ad_1] 4 min readBengaluruNov 26, 2025 03:17 PM IST After laying dormant for 12,000 years, the Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeastern Ethiopia erupted on Sunday (November 23). But instead of molten hot lava flowing down the mountainside, thick plumes of ash and gaseous matter dominated visuals of the eruption. 2 ...
