Can Mars let humans age faster? It sounds more poetic than reality, but it may be true technically. Two identical clocks: One on Earth other on Mars, after months, they slowly drift apart. Space already feels strange to most of us. A strange revelation: Time itself doesn’t behave the same everywhere. Recent research suggests clocks…
SpaceX appears to be putting its Mars plans on hold for the time being. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is now prioritising the Moon instead. The current goal is an uncrewed lunar landing scheduled for March 2027, with no astronauts aboard initially. Elon Musk had previously aimed to send an uncrewed mission…
Space selfies with smartphones? Imagine the shots they could get with a smartphone in hand. NASA has reportedly announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry their own smartphones. This is a bit of a departure from the usual strict rules about what gadgets can fly in…
Do you think the white frozen sheets over Antarctica may hold a secret? This White, frozen, and solid Antarctica, although it looks quiet but beneath those endless plains of ice something enormous is going on. Scientists have revealed an entire hidden volcanic landscape buried under the continent. A China-led international research team has created the…
In an unexpected outcome, the Covid-19 lockdowns, which reduced air pollution worldwide, were linked to a sharp rise in methane levels, a powerful greenhouse gas, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science.Researchers found that methane levels increased at a record pace in the early 2020s because the atmosphere’s natural “cleaning agents”,…
Indian-origin scientist Meha Jain of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability has won the Arizona State University–Science Prize for Transformational Impact. The honour recognises early-career researchers whose work delivers real social impact. Jain was awarded for using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to study how smallholder farmers respond to climate stress. Her…
NASA maps how Earth’s glaciers speed up and slow down through the year Glaciers have never been still. They move again and again often in step with the seasons. Scientists have known this for a long time, mostly by watching individual glaciers or small regions. What has been harder to see is how this behaviour…
Video released by Nasa on Wednesday captures glowing green ribbons of aurora lighting up Earth from space. The timelapse footage, taken from the International Space Station, shows the lights shimmering across the planet as a thin orange line traces the edge of Earth’s atmosphere.The striking visuals come as the Sun continues a period of increased…
Imagine a jet of energy so powerful that it makes even Star Wars’ Death Star look tiny. That’s reportedly what astronomers are seeing from a supermassive black hole 665 million light-years away. The jet, nicknamed Jetty McJetface, is moving at almost the speed of light and is made from the remains of a star torn…
NASA’s internship programs reportedly give students a chance to experience real space science. You don’t need to be a seasoned astronaut or even have graduated yet. It’s not just about dreaming of rockets or Mars; you might actually get hands-on with real projects. These internships are open to college-level students, and it seems they’re not…
Jupiter is slightly smaller than scientists believed for decades: NASA’s Juno mission finally explains why (Image Source – NASA) Jupiter has long been described as a swollen, fast-spinning giant, but its exact dimensions have rested on ageing measurements. For decades, scientists relied on radio signals gathered briefly by Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft in the late…
As talk of Mars colonisation and permanent lunar bases accelerates, scientists are issuing a stark warning: human reproduction in space is nowhere near safe enough to even be considered.Despite decades of spaceflight, reproduction beyond Earth has never been attempted, and experts say the biological risks involved could endanger not just astronauts, but future generations. A…
A promising pancreatic cancer therapy developed by Spanish scientist Mariano Barbacid has sparked global attention for its striking results in mice. Beyond the scientific breakthrough, the project is also making headlines for the unusual way it is being funded. After preclinical success, the research has encountered a familiar obstacle: securing the substantial funding required to…
For centuries, people all over the world have told stories about ghosts. In many cultures, the dead are believed to come back in spirit form. Some believe ghosts live in old houses. Others think they appear near cemeteries or old battlefields. These stories have been passed down for generations. They make for good campfire tales…
Isro chairman V Narayanan BENGALURU: Four-and-a-half years after an anomaly in the cryogenic upper stage (CUS) of the GSLV-F10 mission cost India the Geo Imaging Satellite (Gisat-1) or EOS-03, Isro is geared up to launch Gisat-1A or EOS-05, as its replacement. Gisat-1A, designed to provide near real-time images of large “areas of region of interest”…
At first glance, it looks like something generated by AI or photoshopped for social media: a single tree bursting into dozens of differently coloured blossoms and, months later, yielding an improbable mix of peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and more. But the so-called “Tree of 40 Fruit” is entirely real. It is the result of a…
FILE – A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right. The federally funded study…
A lake born from the sky. That’s how Lonar Crater Lake is often described, and once you see it, the phrase makes sense. Hidden in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district, the lake looks calm and ordinary at first. Almost too calm. Trees circle the water, old temples sit quietly along the rim, and birds move across the…
NVIDIA’s Cosmos Policy uses a video model to generate robot actions and predict future outcomes (Image Source – NVIDIA) Cosmos policy describes how NVIDIA has adapted an existing video prediction system for use in robotics. The model was first trained on vast collections of video, enough to absorb patterns of movement, contact, and physical change…
Elon Musk makes bold new claim: “Optimus…capable of building civilisation by itself”; a Von Neumann machine for space expansion Elon Musk has set out an expansive long-term vision for Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot, framing it as more than a factory or household machine. Optimus is described as a general-purpose, bipedal, humanoid robot designed to perform…
