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We are polluting not just the planet, but also the space around it. Space, especially the Low Earth Orbit, is filled with space debris, which includes thousands of pieces of defunct satellites. Space agencies are scrambling to develop technologies to mitigate the threats posed by the debris. One such initiative, called Elsa-D, was launched recently. We will have to wait and watch how far this technology helps solve the problem of space junk. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at what constitutes space debris and why they need our attention...

How Visakhapatnam-based School Radio has thrived to create a digital space for children to produce audio content

School Radio that went completely online during the pandemic has partnered with a team of storytellers, voice artistes, radio professionals and sector specialists for online training through video conferencing platforms

Speaking out about periods

Actor Tisca Chopra's book 'What's Up With Me?' is a conversation starter between parents and tweens on puberty and periods

How parents are climbing the virtual academic curve with child-led learning methodologies

During the pandemic, many parents brought about a change in their approach to parenting with homeschooling and alternative education techniques

The man with one sandal

Why should Pelias of Iolcus be afraid of his own nephew?

Did the zebra cross the road?

Find out how the white stripes on our roads came to be called ‘zebra crossings’.

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The birth of the “Big Bang”

On March 28, 1949, the term “Big Bang” was used for the first time by English scientist Fred Hoyle during a radio show. Even though Hoyle strongly rejected the theory, the name that he coined has stuck to it ever since. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at the origin story of a term that is used for a theory that explains our origin...

Crunchy conversations

Which veggie is the most important of them all?

Hard at work

Mohit and Neel finally pitch in and help with rebuilding a house. But an unpleasant surprise awaits them...

Know the scientist: Grace Hopper

Hopper developed the FLOW-MATIC computer programming language in 1957 and shortly after, pioneered the Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL)

A dish to celebrate with

A recent addition to the UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage is Couscous, a dish staple to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania.

What is the Butterfly Effect?

What has this effect got to do with the field of mathematics and weather predictions?

Colours of the past

When the car broke down, we had to stay on in the village. We had no idea we would be celebrating Holi with…

Wonderfully weird

It’s one of the most familiar substances in the world and yet also one of the strangest. Check out the fascinating science of water.

Brick by brick: Back to work

Neel tells Mohit about his great-great-grandfather who was taken away to Fiji from India.

Saved by the bell

With Holi coming up, Dadi wants to start preparing the sweets but how can she without the right ingredients?

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Seaborg, McMillan and the discovery of plutonium

On March 21, 1942, the chemical element with the atomic number 94 was given the name plutonium, after the dwarf planet Pluto. Discovered by Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and their colleagues, plutonium is a radioactive element that can be used to both create and destroy. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at Seaborg, McMillan, and plutonium...

Know the scientist: Max Delbruck

In 1969, Delbruck won the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, which he shared with Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Edward Luria, for their work in molecular genetics

Brick by brick: The past

Mohit and Neel tell each other how they wound up in the Arranmandal rebuilding project.

Who reduced the river to a trickle? The animals in the jungle decide to find out

When Jack and his friends saw the state the river was in, they knew they needed to act...

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Look back at Bengaluru’s history with this book of stories from INTACH

INTACH’s new book takes the reader on a journey of learning about the city’s evolution over the centuries through fictional stories

The story of Trojan asteroids

Trojan asteroids are asteroids that share an orbit with a planet and are located at the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrangian points of the

A milestone and an in-flight emergency

Gemini VIII, launched on March 16, 1966 and carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, was the first spacecraft to achieve docking with an uncrewed spacecraft in Earth orbit. This success, however, was quickly tempered as the astronauts were confronted with an in-flight emergency. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at the first such docking that soon turned into a wild ride in orbit...

Every drop counts

What can you do to help save our water bodies? Here are some tips...

Know the scientist: Inge Lehmann

It was only after the 1929 earthquake in New Zealand and subsequent work by Lehmann, that we got a better understanding of the Earth’s core.

Telephone’s patent war: Was it Graham Bell or Elisha Gray?

It was Valentine’s Day – February 14. The year was 1876. But what happened on that day in a U.S. patent office in Washington, D.C. surely didn’t sow

Making screen history

Liani goes back in time to find out how Alam Ara, the first Indian film with sound that was released on March 14, 1931, was made.

Brick by brick: The meeting

Why was Mohit pretending to be something he was not, wonders Neel. Beginning a new serial story

How long is a year on other planets?

Read on to know what determines the length of a year on other planets

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