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Gaganyaan

Williams's success is… ours?
Vinesh Phogat

Williams's success is… ours?

A day before NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were to
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Solve all our problems
Elon Musk

Solve all our problems

This is xkcd #1232. When it came out I remember it was
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Artemis Accords

JPL layoff isn't the fall of a civilisation

A historian of science I follow on Twitter recently retweeted this striking
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chat AI

What Gaganyaan tells us about chat AI, and vice versa

Talk of chat AI* is everywhere, as I’m sure you know.
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crew module

Gaganyaan: The ingredient is not the recipe

For all the hoopla over indigeneity – from ISRO chairman S. Somanath exalting
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Balram Bhargava

Something more foolish than completing phase 3 trials in 1.5 months?

That the Union government and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had
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Big Science

What arguments against the 'next LHC' say about funding Big Physics

A few days ago, a physicist (and PhD holder) named Thomas Hartsfield
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Chatham House Rules

A meeting with the PSA's office

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) organised a meeting with
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Chandrayaan 2

The mission that was 110% successful

Caution: Satire. On October 2, Kailash S., the chairman of the Indian
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Aditya L1

Why are we going to the Moon again?

At 2:51 am on July 15, the Indian Space Research Organisation
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Bharati script

Solutions looking for problems

There’s been a glut of ‘science projects’ that seem to be
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