Newsmen Science Desk

Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, passed away yesterday and tributes from all over the world has been pouring in for this space legend. As the world bid him goodbye, we bring you the success story of this forgotten astronaut. 

“We sail through endless sky,” wrote an Instagram user. “Literally one of the most beautiful occulting pairs of galaxies ever!!!” expressed another. “It is amazing what you do, I can’t believe I live on the same planet as you,” praised a third.

The two schemes combined are expected to bring down costs of bulk drugs in the country and also increase competitiveness in the domestic bulk drug industry, not only for boosting domestic capability but also leading the market globally. These efforts by the government are in tune with PM Narendra Modi's "atma-nirbharta" mission for the country and are in the right direction of providing low-cost healthcare to the marginalised sections of the society. 

Indian-American Raja Chari has his roots in Hyderabad but was born in Milwaukee, America after his father immigrated to the US. Chari graduated from the US Airforce Academy, MIT and later went to US Naval Test Pilot School. He has over 2,500 hours of test-flight experience under his belt.

As of 9 p.m. on Monday, the Mars probe had flown in space for 144 days and travelled more than 360 million km, reports Xinhua news agency. It was more than 100 million km away from Earth and about 12 million km away from Mars.

SARS-CoV-2 virus antibodies likely persist for longer, but the research team from the Stanford University in the US, documented a slow, inexorable decline in this antibody class as well, even in severely ill patients who mounted very strong initial antibody responses.

Women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression have an almost fourfold greater risk of early death from cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, type 2 diabetes, suicide, and other causes than women without trauma exposure or depression, warn researchers.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7 1867, young Curie whose original name was Maria Sklodowska was a brilliant student. She faced many challenges in her childhood to pursue her study. As a woman, she was barred from pursuing her higher education. So she enrolled in floating University, a secret institution that provides education to Polish youth.

Researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine for the first time when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids (that are rich in water and amino acids) first arrived in the inner solar system, in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment.

The telescope named the Askap (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) is a collection of 36 dish antennas that work together to take panoramas of the sky.