by Amrita Priya | Dec 9, 2023
(December 9, 2023) A tiny satellite called ASTERIA, no bigger than a briefcase, did something once only big telescopes could do. It detected 55 Cancri e, a planet twice the size of Earth and possibly made of diamond inside, 41 light years away from earth. ASTERIA was...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 19, 2023
(July 19, 2023) Ritu Karidhal Srivastava, popularly known as the Rocket Woman of India, is a renowned scientist at Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Carrying the hopes of an entire nation, Ritu is leading Chandrayaan-3, India’s third moon mission. The...
by Amrita Priya | Jan 21, 2023
(January 21, 2023) “An exciting time to be at NASA as the agency along with industry prepare to return crews to the moon,” tweeted AC Charania, eleven days after he assumed office as NASA’s new chief technologist. He also posted a link to the upcoming Artemis III...
by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 30, 2022
They’re the movers-and-shakers at NASA and leaders in healthcare, space tech, engineering and gastronomy the world over. Global Indians are preceded by their reputation for excellence in scientific thought and research and have continued to prove themselves as...
by Darshana Ramdev | Nov 25, 2022
(November 25, 2022) In 2018, Dr. Keshav Singh, a professor of genetics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, was experimenting with mitochondria in mice. The team introduced a mutation to induce dysfunction and, over the next few weeks, observed that the mice...