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How will space travel impact Shubhanshu Shukla’s health Why astronauts need ‘reconditioning’ to earth
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 17, 2025 02:54 PM IST Shubhanshu Shukla space travel health impacts: After spending 18 days on the International Space Station and orbiting around the Earth 288 times, Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is heading home. The Space Dragon craft, called Grace, will splash ...
Simpler, safer: Why spacecraft prefer splashdowns over landing on ground | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 18, 2025 02:14 PM IST The spacecraft carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his three colleagues on the Axiom-4 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday after a 20-hour journey from the International Space Station. Landing in the ocean is the preferred ...
Why merger of two black holes, 100 times bigger than the Sun, holds significance | Explained News
[ad_1] Scientists have reported the discovery of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes that are the biggest to have been observed in such an event. Black hole mergers are rare but some of the most spectacular events in the universe, releasing massive amounts of energy that are ...
Gujarat to create genome database of tribal communities: what’s the project, why | Explained News
[ad_1] In a first in the country, the Gujarat government has announced a genome sequencing project to create a database from 20 tribal groups across 17 districts of the state. The exercise, a local extension of the recently completed Genome India Project (GIP), will be carried out over the next ...
What is Comet, Perplexity’s agentic AI-powered browser? | Explained News
[ad_1] Perplexity, known for its AI-powered search engine, earlier this month introduced its new AI-first browser, Comet, which is designed to help users assign various web tasks to AI agents. The browser is still in early access under the Perplexity Max plan, which costs $200 a month. From user responses ...
Weapons of Math Destruction: What do Olympiad gold medals mean for the AI race? | Explained News
[ad_1] Large language models (LLMs) are widely known for their ability to churn out essays and other forms of text in seconds. But for years, researchers have been using math problems that involve advanced reasoning as a test of what artificial intelligence (AI) systems are truly capable of. The race ...
#arseniclife: Story of a viral study & a contentious retraction | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readUpdated: Jul 26, 2025 10:56 AM IST Fifteen years ago, a group of scientists made the bold claim of having discovered a microorganism that could survive using chemistry different from any known life-form. On Thursday, the journal Science, where these findings were reported, formally retracted the 2010 ...
How Lovable became a successful AI-powered app builder
[ad_1] 2 min readNew DelhiJul 26, 2025 05:39 PM IST Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, putting it ahead of most other software firms, including OpenAI. Currently, the firm has more than 2.3 million active users, and last reported 180,000 paying subscribers. Here ...
Why the launch of NASA-ISRO joint satellite NISAR matters | Explained News
[ad_1] Earth observation satellites are fairly common these days, with countries routinely deploying them in space for a variety of purposes. But the satellite that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch on Wednesday evening is anything but routine. It is a satellite that has been in ...
Google’s AI summaries are driving down website clicks. Can it reshape the way people surf the internet? | Explained News
[ad_1] As Google transitions from AI Overviews to AI Mode, which seeks to replace traditional search results altogether and instead a chatbot effectively creates a miniature article to answer a query, the big looming question is — will this change the way people surf the internet? No, claims Google, but ...
