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Why in news? A domestically developed Akasha300 3D printer was recently delivered to the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Liquid Propulsion Syst...
Why in news? On 16 March 2026, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the confirmation of 15 new moons: 11 orbiting Saturn and 4 orbiting Jupiter. Wi...
Why in news? The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, in collaboration with Google and YouTube, recently launched a National AI Skilling Initiative...
Why in news? The Delhi government and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras launched a six‑month pilot project in March 2026 to test smog�...
Why in news? Scientists at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) announced in early March 2026 that they had successfully produced five heal...
Why in news? A pilot facility to produce neodymium‑iron‑boron (Nd–Fe–B) magnets was inaugurated at the International Advanced Research Centre ...
Why in news? Fat is often thought of as inert storage, but recent research has highlighted that adipose tissue is metabolically active and plays a key...
Why in news? A study led by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that cholesterol accumulated in the nuclear envelope of cancer ...
Why in news? The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) successfully tested an indigenously developed floating LiDAR buoy off the coast of Mutt...
Why in news? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a material based on MXene that can generate hydrogen effi...
Why in news? A biotechnology company, PRG S&T, recently signed a licensing agreement with Sentynl Therapeutics (a Zydus Group company) to develop and ...
Why in news? The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR‑NCL) has announced that it is ready to scale u...
Why in news? Laboratory experiments simulating the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan have shown that acrylonitrile, a molecule present in Titan’s ...
Why in news? Scientists from the SETI Institute have identified a rare iron sulphate, ferric hydroxysulphate, in layered deposits near Mars’s vast V...
Why in news? During “Operation White Hammer” on 11–12 March 2026, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) raided a clandestine facil...
Why in news? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in late March 2026 that it plans to remove certain peptides from its list of prohib...
Why in news? NASA announced that Van Allen Probe A, one of two identical spacecraft launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, re‑entered ...
Why in news? An asteroid designated 2024 YR4 briefly made headlines when early calculations suggested a small chance of it hitting Earth or the Moon i...
Why in news? Scientists have once again turned their attention to Devon Island, an enormous and desolate landmass in the Canadian Arctic, because its ...
Why in news? Researchers analysing data from NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have found that the mission not only altered the...
