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Kumar Abishek

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Is Sunita Williams In Danger?
Rediff.com1 Jul 2024

Astronauts aboard the space station have found themselves facing a foe far tinier than...

Why Do New Year Resolutions Fail?
Rediff.com2 Jan 2024

New Year resolutions often focus on lofty ambitions, say, shedding 20 kg within six...

Why Aditya L1 Is Super Special
Rediff.com4 Sep 2023

India's first solar mission, if successful, will showcase ISRO's ability to explore the...

Why We Are Moonstruck
Rediff.com29 Jul 2023

Deciphering its secrets will unlock the early history of not only our planet, but also...

Is GPT-4 Intelligent?
Rediff.com3 May 2023

Overestimation of AI can lead to an excessive level of trust and the spread of...

India's Forever Debt To Bhabha, Sarabhai
Rediff.com22 Feb 2022

Dr Bhabha and Dr Sarabhai didn't feel guilty for their ambitions; it was for those 'mad...

Can Earth Avoid Killer Space Rocks?
Rediff.com20 Jan 2022

Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, considered an...

In Space, On a Joyride
Rediff.com10 Jul 2021

Will space tourism with a niche market of serving only the uber-rich ever be...

Is there Life Out There?
Rediff.com31 Oct 2020

The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question:...

Is your brain connected to Wi-Fi?
Rediff.com17 Oct 2020

Imagine a world in which a human only thinks, and a robot cooks the whole meal.

How To Win An Oscar
Rediff.com4 Feb 2020

Joaquin Phoneix (Joker) and Renne Zellweger (Judy) should keep their fingers crossed,...

How India can get ahead in the space race
Rediff.com16 Jan 2020

Chandrayaan-3's success is a must for India's space ambitions; we can't afford to lose...