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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - August 2016

Aug 2016

Mar 18, 2025

Sunita Williams Spacex Crew-9 Return

After a prolonged nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally embarking on their return journey. Their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully undocked on Wednesday, initiating a 17-hour voyage back to Earth. The astronaut crew will travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after reaching there in June last year. They were supposed to stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported from Earth to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Mar 17, 2025

Centre Approves Chandrayaan-5 Mission

India's space ambitions reached new heights with the approval of the Chandrayaan-5 mission, announced by ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan. This mission will be executed in collaboration with Japan and aims to conduct an advanced study of the Moon's surface. Unlike Chandrayaan-3, which carried the 25 kg rover 'Pragyan', Chandrayaan-5 will deploy a heavier 250 kg rover, enhancing India's lunar exploration capabilities.

Mar 16, 2025

Fourth Form of Water Confirmed

Scientists confirmed a fourth form of ice, called Plastic Ice VII. This rare phase allows water molecules to rotate freely while staying in a solid structure. The discovery, led by Livia Bove from Sorbonne University, helps scientists understand how water behaves in extreme planetary environments.
This discovery changes our understanding of water in space. Ice VII, another extreme phase, exists on Jupiter's and Saturn's icy moons, such as Ganymede and Titan. The existence of Plastic Ice VII suggests that water behaves even more unpredictably in space.

Google Introduces New AI Models for Rapidly Growing Robotics Industry

Google launched two new AI models tailored for robotics applications based on its Gemini 2.0 model, as it looks to cater to the rapidly growing robotics industry.
Google's launch comes a month after robotics start-up Figure AI exited its collaboration agreement with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI after it made an internal breakthrough in AI for robots.
The search engine giant's Gemini Robotics is an advanced vision-language-action model that will have physical actions as a way to provide output.
The second model, named Gemini Robotics-ER, will enable a robot to have an advanced understanding of the space around it and lets developers run their own programs using reasoning abilities offered by Gemini 2.0.

Mar 15, 2025

ISRO Successfully Conducts De-docking of SpaDeX Satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed the successful undocking of their Space Docking Experiment - SpaDex, setting the stage for future missions such as Chandrayaan-4 and more.

Mar 14, 2025

ScienceDirect AI: Elsevier Launches Generative AI Tool for Researchers

Dutch publishing company, Elsevier, that specialises in medical and scientific content launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers, the company announced, adding that it will enable researchers to instantly extract, summarise, and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect.
ScienceDirect is world's largest platform for peer-reviewed research.

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