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49 stories for “Science & Technology” · March 2026
Clear filtersISRO has successfully carried out a sea-level hot test of its CE20 cryogenic engine at a thrust level of 22 tonnes. The CE20 powers the C25 cryogenic upper stage of the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3), India's heavy-lift ro...
A new study shows that NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) altered the orbit of a whole asteroid system. In September 2022, a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, a small moonlet circling the as...
India's data centre capacity has grown roughly fourfold, from about 375 MW in 2020 to nearly 1,500 MW in 2025. A data centre is a secured facility that stores, processes and manages large volumes of digital data. India's...
Pi Day, which is also marked as the International Day of Mathematics, is observed worldwide on 14 March every year. The date was chosen because 3/14 matches the first three digits of the mathematical constant π (3.14159)...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has lost contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft of its Proba-3 mission following a power failure.Proba-3 is the first mission to use precision formation flying to study the corona, the Su...
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) earned global recognition for its FraudPro platform at the Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Spain.FraudPro uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (...
Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation in Kerala has deployed an Artificial Intelligence-enabled robot named G-SPIDER at the Amayizhanchan canal. The robot is being used under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 to remove...
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Bellatrix Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellite systems. VLEO refers to orbits between 150 km and 450 km above t...
Japan has approved the world's first stem-cell therapy for treating Parkinson's disease. The treatment uses Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells to replace the dopamine-producing neurons in the brain that are damaged in...
The Government of India is establishing the country's first integrated plant based on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) at Kavaratti Island in Lakshadweep. OTEC is a renewable energy technology that generates electr...
Skyroot Aerospace is getting ready to launch Vikram-1, the first orbital rocket developed by a private company in India. The rocket is designed to place satellites weighing up to 300 kg in low Earth orbit and will lift o...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has launched a Moonshot Project to build brain co-processors that combine neuromorphic hardware with Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. Brain co-processors are devices that co...
