Distance between Earth and Sun

It was nine o’clock in the morning on October 8, 1771. Guillaume le Gentil was exhausted, weary after a long travel and eager to meet his wife.

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Zoology Tweets in burbs

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Technology Instant repair

Quest for life

India's Chandrayaan programme is "ambitious"

Till 1999, India's space programme was focussed on application-driven projects. Sending satellites to space with an eye to immediate benefits. But that didn't mean that space scientists weren't nursing the desire to explore space from more of a pure science perspective.

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Marine Sciences Coral history

In honour of Galileo

As night fell on April 14, the lawns of the American Academy in Rome twinkled with candles.

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ZOOLOGY The real cost of bat loss

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TECHNOLOGY Dogs sniff cancer

Radical theory

four billion years ago, the Moon orbited much closer to the Earth than it does now, causing massive tides to flow every few hours. These tides could have led to the evolution of early dna-like molecules. Richard Lathe of the uk-based organisation Pieta Research has recently propounded this hypothesis in the journal Icarus (Vol 168, No 1, March 2004).