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A koala sits in a tree at a koala park in Sydney, Australia, Friday, May 5, 2023. Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in a pioneering field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the beloved marsupials against a widespread disease that causes blindness, infertility and death.

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Marsupials

In this undated handout photo from Krill biologist Rob King released on March 9, 2018 a single krill swims at the Australian Antarctic Division's (AAD) krill aquarium in Hobart, Tasmania.

They might be at the bottom of the food chain, but krill could prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against the growing threat of plastic pollution in the world's oceans as new research on March 9, 2018 shows the tiny zooplankton physically break down microplastics -- under five milimetres -- before excreting them back into the environment in an even smaller form. / AFP PHOTO / AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION / ROB KING / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT 'AFP PHOTO / ROB KING / AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

What is Diel Vertical Migration and its role in carbon sequestration?

Bangalore Literature Festival.

Gender gaps and gajras in women’s world of science

Meghnavi Ravuri

Trained dog-catchers attempt to capture stray dogs to administer the rabies vaccine in Alappuzha municipality, Kerala, May 12, 2023.

Giant rabies study with 50,000 dogs says only vaccines can stop disease

Rohini Subrahmanyam

An artist’s impression of a GPS-IIR satellite in orbit.

How does GPS work? | Explained

Vasudevan Mukunth

ISRO said on Monday that in another unique experiment, like the hop experiment on the Vikram Lander, the PM of Chandrayaan-3 was moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbit around Earth. File

Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module moves from lunar orbit to earth orbit

The Hindu Bureau

In galvanic corrosion, given two metals plus an electrolyte, the more reactive metal will corrode preferentially (i.e. without the other corroding at all). Name the monument, built in part by Gustave Eiffel, in which galvanic corrosion was found in the 1980s.

Daily Quiz | On Italian physicist and philosopher Luigi Galvani

Vasudevan Mukunth

South Korea on Monday successfully conducted a test flight of a solid-fuel space rocket. (Representational image/file)

South Korea tests solid-fuel rocket amid space race with North Korea

A red quartzite baboon statue in Egypt, c. 1391-1353 BC, unclear location, April 30, 2016.

Mystery origin of Egypt’s mummified baboons finally cracked | Explained

Sanjukta Mondal

Geometric illustration of a crowd of human figures.

The transformative benefits of population-level genome sequencing | Explained

Sridhar Sivasubbu,Vinod Scaria

Watch | Did you know India’s space programme has turned 60?

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The Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS), the second instrument in the Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload is operational. The histogram illustrates the energy variations in proton and alpha particle counts captured by SWIS over 2-days. Twitter/@isro

Solar wind particle experiment payload onboard Aditya-L1 starts operations: ISRO

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