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Why China’s upcoming Tianwen-2 mission could be significant for finding clues about quasi-satellites | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 25, 2025 12:02 PM IST China will launch its first mission to survey and sample a near-Earth asteroid this week. Known as the Tianwen-2 mission, the probe will investigate an asteroid called 469219 Kamo‘oalewa, which orbits the Sun at a distance relatively close to ...
Altman, former Apple design head Ive join hands to create new ‘family of devices’: What this means in the age of AI | Explained News
[ad_1] “We have an opportunity here to completely reimagine what it means to use a computer.” This is how OpenAI CEO Sam Altman started the announcement video on May 21 of his company’s acquisition of startup io, which was founded by Apple’s legendary former designer Jony Ive. The nearly $ ...
Explained: In a first, how a customised gene-editing tool was used to treat 9-month-old boy | Explained News
[ad_1] A nine-month-old boy, born with a rare genetic disorder, has become the first (known) person to successfully receive a custom gene-editing treatment, a report published on May 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine said. Kyle “KJ” Muldoon Jr suffers from CPS1 deficiency which causes toxic levels of ...
Why are men taller than women? New study finds a genetic clue | Explained News
[ad_1] Written by: The New York Times 3 min readMay 31, 2025 09:00 AM IST Men are taller than women, by an average of about 5 inches. But why? It’s not a genetic inevitability — there are many species in which females outclass males. A new study published Monday in ...
Remembering Eliza, one of the first chatbots: Lessons, warnings it holds for AI today | Explained News
[ad_1] It ran on a computer that was among the most advanced at MIT at the time — the IBM 7090 — and could be accessed through a typewriter-like terminal. Eliza had different “scripts” — or ways of interacting — and could mimic a math teacher, poetry teacher or a ...
What caused the massive eruption of Italy’s Mount Etna | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jun 4, 2025 08:03 PM IST Italy’s Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe, produced an explosive eruption on Monday morning, sending a huge cloud of ash, smoke and rock fragments several kilometres into the sky. Although the eruption created a spectacular sight, it resulted ...
What happened to the IndiGo flight which lost its nose in a hailstorm last month? | Explained News
[ad_1] On the evening of May 21, IndiGo flight 6E 2142 flying from Delhi to Srinagar experienced extreme turbulence after it was caught in a severe hailstorm. Videos shared by the passengers showed a scary situation, with the aircraft shaking violently amid flashes of lightning in the windows. And upon ...
Explained: ‘Realising the return’— how an Indian became part of Axiom-4 | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiJun 10, 2025 08:30 AM IST In June 2023, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington, India and the US announced a decision to finalise a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation. It was also revealed that Indian and American space agencies, Indian Space ...
Explained: Why scientists study tardigrades, tiny eight-legged ‘water bears’, in space | Explained News
[ad_1] Among the scientific experiments astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will undertake during his two week stay at the International Space Station (ISS) is one that will examine the revival, survival, and reproduction of tardigrades in space. What is the Voyager Tardigrades experiment? And why do scientists study these microscopic, eight-legged organisms? ...
Rakesh Sharma Soviet mission explained: Before Shubhanshu Shukla lifts off, the story of Rakesh Sharma the first Indian to go to space
[ad_1] Rakesh Sharma space mission: Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla on Wednesday will become only the second Indian to travel to space. The first was Rakesh Sharma, whose Soyuz T-11 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan on April 3, 1984. Here’s the story. Sharma’s voyage was ...
