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Latest Five candidates file for Karnataka's West Graduates' Council seat, with both camps in the fray
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Space missions, health research, climate models and the institutions doing the slow, careful work.
The 2026 prize honours the discovery of light-gated ion channels — the molecular switches that made optogenetics possible. NOT SCRIPTED reads the Nobel Committee's own account of how three independent lines of work converged on the same molecule.
The statement, carried on August 21, redraws a boundary the space policy has been pushing towards for years — and leaves the crewed programme untouched.
Late Oligocene Pandanaceae leaves recovered from the Makum Coalfield match features still visible on the living plant, and point to tropical lineages surviving climatic upheaval in South Asia.
NASA named the crew on June 9: Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas and the European Space Agency's Luca Parmitano. None of them is going to the Moon. Artemis 3 is a rehearsal, and the agency is candid about the gap between a rehearsal and a landing.
An IIT Delhi study puts a number on something Indian air-quality policy has argued about for two decades. The figure is large, the mechanism is unglamorous, and the intervention is largely settled.
Five modules, two launches and a launch vehicle that has to be rebuilt before it can fly. The mission is still officially on track for October 2027.
The core-stage engine of the heavy-lift launcher completed a sea-level test, adding a line to a qualification sequence for a rocket that has yet to fly.
India's first space launch of 2026 lost a DRDO hyperspectral satellite and 15 co-passengers to an anomaly at the end of the third stage. The cause is not yet public.
