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Significant legislative and enforcement gaps in India’s aviation frameworks leave urban residents living under major flight paths highly vulnerable to severe health risks from chronic aircraft noise.
A Department of Science & Technology task force has warned that India’s current digital data encryption could soon be cracked by emerging quantum computers, urging critical sectors to immediately plan a transition to post-quantum cryptography.
Indian aerospace startup RaudraNex Aerospace achieved a significant milestone with the successful launch of the STRATO-X1 mission, marking India's first Super Pressure Balloon platform launch from Vijayawada's IGMC Stadium.
A groundbreaking study by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and Prof Ramkrishna More College reveals that India is home to 191 cockroach species, with over 60% being endemic. Researchers have developed the largest DNA barcode reference library for peninsular Indian cockroaches to resolve taxonomic ambiguities.
Dr. Ronaldo Laishram, leading an international team using the Subaru and James Webb space telescopes, named a cosmic structure of connected galaxies after Manipur's iconic Loktak Lake to immortalise the state's identity in the cosmos.
Using the extraordinary precision of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the atmosphere of WASP-94A b a "Hot Jupiter" located 700 light-years away revealing a dramatic weather cycle featuring morning sand clouds that completely dissipate by evening.