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2008: A Space Odyssey

WOW! I have never felt so much pride in being an Indian while writing a post. The feeling I have is shared by millions of Indians around the globe. India’s maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-I was launched successfully from Srijarikota today. The PSLV-C11 rocket was fired at exactly 0622 IST (0052 UTC). Chandrayaan was [...]

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Chandrayaan-I : India’s flight into the space

The day is here. Years of hard work is about to pay off. India is all set to launch its first ever unmanned moon mission tomorrow. Chandrayaan-I will be launched tomorrow, i.e. 22 October 2008 at 0620 hrs IST (0050 hrs GMT) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The probe will be set on [...]

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MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem

Scientists working at MIT have done it yet again. They are claiming to have cracked a 100 year old engineering problem. As a car accelerates up and down a hill then slows to follow a hairpin turn, the airflow around it cannot keep up and detaches from the vehicle. This aerodynamic separation creates additional drag [...]

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India gets NSG waiver

India finally grabbed the NSG waiver enabling her to carry out nuclear trade with the NSG member countries. The waiver will enable India to get nuclear material and latest nuclear technologies. This remarkable event marks the end of nuclear isolation India was facing on international front . International community imposed nuclear (trade) sanctions on India [...]

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC), taking science to the next level

The day has finally arrived. Scientists will make the first attempt to circulate the first beam in the LHC or Large Hadron Collider tomorrow. European Organization for Nuclear Research (formerly known as Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) or CERN had earlier announced the start-up date for this most ambitious scientific research project ever to [...]

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