Category: Science

Tokyo Tech students from the Society for the Study of Robotics, an official student club, have won the Best Performance Award at the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Marine Robots Night Festival. The event was held at Nippon Maru Memorial Park in Yokohama City on July 12, 2023, as part of the IFAC World Congress 2023, a public forum that took place at the Pacifico Yokohama convention complex from…

India’s first solar mission, Aditya-L1, has made a remarkable discovery of sulphur on the Moon’s south pole, according to a report by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission, which was launched in February 2023, has been observing the Sun and its influence on the Earth and the solar system. Aditya-L1: India’s Eye on the Sun Aditya-L1 is a 400 kg satellite that carries seven payloads to study various…

India becomes the first nation to land on the moon’s south pole India achieved a historic feat on Wednesday evening, when it successfully landed a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, making it the first country to do so. The Vikram lander, part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, touched down on the lunar surface at 7:31 pm IST, after a tense descent that lasted about 15 minutes. The lander carried a…

South Korea has made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research by achieving a plasma temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius for 30 seconds, the longest duration ever recorded. What is nuclear fusion and why is it important? Nuclear fusion is the process of fusing two or more lighter atoms into a heavier one, releasing a huge amount of energy in the process. This is the same reaction that powers…

A Global Initiative to Connect Rural Communities Farmers and fishers in developing countries face many challenges, such as climate change, pests, diseases, market fluctuations, and lack of access to information and technology. To overcome these obstacles, they need to learn from each other and share their best practices. That is why a global initiative called Knowledge Sharing for Resilient Livelihoods was launched in 2021 by the Christian Science Monitor and…