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Chandrayaan-2 Landing: How Isro's Vikram, Pragyan plan to make history tonightLanding softly on the moon is a complex task. Only 37% of such attempts have been successful, but these statistics are deceptive.- Final countdown for Indians to reach the final frontierThe mission will cost Rs 10,000 crore and will be executed in 2022. In space technology terms, that’s a very tight deadline.
- 4 ET journalists bag Shriram Awards for financial reportingSaloni Shukla, Joel Rebello, Atmadip Ray and Hari Pulakkata of ET bagged the awards for their respective stories.
- Isro launches 31 satellites: Ten facts about the missionIt is also the last mission under the chairmanship of Kiran Kumar, who is expected to retire next week after a career spanning 42 years.
- Is climate change the culprit behind floods and farming woes?From the floods of Houston to those in Gujarat, from Niger to Mumbai, climate change may not be the central trigger, but it may be aggravat...
- How poor monsoon is going to impact agriculture and seed businessLast year, cotton farmers lost money because the monsoon took a break soon after arrival, their seedlings wilted, and they had to sow the s...
- Mathematics talent is not cultivated as much in India: Manjul BhargavaManjul Bhargava is the first Indian-origin winner of the Fields Medal, the highest honour for a mathematician.
- Biological pathways: Designing genetic circuits from scratchLearning to control these pathways is not easy because they keep talking to each other, and there is no reliable way to find out whether on...
- Flipside of health monitoringIt is likely that technology companies have underestimated their challenges, and that not much is possible without substantial technology b...
- Solar energy set to replace power companiesScientists keep advancing solar technology, and these advances will keep bringing the prices down. The advances are coming in every conceiv...
- Getting basic scientific rules right, new govt should increase investments in R&DIncreasing investments is not easy and will take time. But the government can make a good start if it focuses on a few things that need no ...
- What the next government should do for science and innovation in IndiaIndia spends only 0.9% of its GDP on R&D, placing it at the bottom on the list of major R&D spenders. Israel is the highest spender at 4.4%.
- New research, and the future of GM crops in IndiaA paper by Seralini, which Jairam Ramesh cited to slam GM crops, has been withdrawn by the journal. What does this mean?
- Startups using Artificial Intelligence to make products for everyday lifeFrom discovering financial fraud to healthcare support, some of the cutting-edge technologies are developed by young ventures.
- BRIC goes down, west stays on top: what’s the message of the Global Innovation Index?China moved six spots down to 35, Russia down six spots to 62, Brazil down 17 spots to 64, and India moved four spots down to 66.
- Queen Elizabeth Prize aims to recognise engineering that benefits humankind: NR Narayana MurthyThe pound 1-mn global prize also aims at making sure engineering remains an attractive proposition for young people, says Murthy.
- How our behaviours & abilities change when surfing web & using smartphonesMost of these studies, summarised in the controversial 2010 book Shallows by Nicholas Car, say prolonged web surfing make people incapable ...
- Microsoft's Bing Mantra: We are looking for fundamental change in structure of the WebMicrosoft CEO Steve Balmer has given Qi Lu plenty of resources. Lu's job is to develop Microsoft's search engine Bing as a serious competit...
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