India’s scientific milestones of 2025 We Indians take immense pride in a relationship with science that is deeply emotional. It is visible when millions watch a rocket rise from Sriharikota, when collective celebration follows a successful mission, or when our eyes well up as disappointment settles after years of painstaking work do not go as…
Scientists were stunned as dolphins used suction feeding, flaring lips and throats to vacuum prey whole/ AI illustration For most people, dolphins sit in a safe mental category: intelligent, playful, sociable animals better known for aquarium tricks and beachside encounters than for anything genuinely threatening. They do not carry the menace of sharks or the…
NASA confirmed that a bus-sized asteroid passed Earth on 22 December 2025 in a routine flyby that had been tracked well in advance and posed no risk to the planet. The object had been monitored by astronomers for some time, and its movement was carefully calculated long before it approached Earth. According to NASA, the…
A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but very dramatic, option. A collision of asteroid 2024 YR4, approximately 60 metres long, with the Moon in December 2032 could result in an impact visible from Earth due to the enormous force. Researchers, however,…
US President Donald Trump has revealed a far-reaching new executive order outlining America’s priorities in space for the remainder of the decade. The directive lays out ambitious targets ranging from returning humans to the Moon to expanding missile defence systems in orbit and accelerating the growth of a commercial space economy. Ultimately, the plan is…
Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an advanced race living on another planet and eventually reach out to us. Many accepted assumptions about when we will discover and how we would receive transmissions…
These shrimp, in huge colonies, snap their claws, creating a racket that can touch 210 decibels. Scientists say this can be louder than ship engines. AI image When asked which is the loudest animal in the ocean, most people would guess it’s a whale — maybe a sperm whale which clicks at an ear-rattling 230…
Universal law derived by French physicist predicts fragment sizes using entropy & probability.A dropped plate, broken spaghetti and a smashed drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics when it comes to how many fragments of a given size they will shatter into.For several decades, researchers have known that there is something…
The James Webb space telescope has found a weird planet that is shaped like a lemon. This planet is 2,000 light-years away from us. The James Webb Space Telescope is changing the way we think about planets that are really far away from us. It is showing us things that we do not normally see…
Ice might appear as a weird construction material, but still, ice on Mars can be the base for human civilisations in the future. Scientists are convinced that frozen water could be the means of survival and the source of prosperity of people on Mars.The idea of building cities on Mars has been a fantasy of…
History is the only way to find out the past and predict the future. This is why one of the most exciting and thrilling jobs in the world is archaeology, where you dive deep into the layers of the Earth to get to know more about it. They say a head carries a thousand thoughts,…
Indian-origin professors Subhasish Mitra of Stanford University and Tathagata Srimani of Carnegie Mellon University are at the centre of a breakthrough that could reshape how artificial intelligence hardware is built in the United States. Along with a multi-institutional team spanning Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, they have developed America’s first monolithic…
One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions within the next few decades. Maggie Aderin-Pocock says she is “absolutely convinced” that life exists beyond Earth and predicts that scientists will confirm its existence by around 2075. Speaking ahead of her Royal Institution Christmas…
The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because of its 91 billion DNA base pairs, it has now officially been confirmed that this genome has fully decoded, the largest animal genome heretofore achieved by human genetic engineering, thirty times larger than…
Venus is packed with surprises and is one of the most fascinating planets in our solar system. Because of the similar size and structure, it is often referred to as Earth’s twin. But, in reality, it is a planet of huge contrasts beyond the surface resemblance. The planet is engulfed with thick clouds of acid,…
Source: Springer Nature Link What is beneath the continent of Africa? There are two big structures down there that do not seem to be from our planet, Earth. Africa has a lot of things about it, but these two enormous structures are really strange. They do not look like they belong under Africa or on…
It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave accurate digits of the world’s most famous irrational number. And even though for a century, the formulas were viewed as pinnacle of…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third object that we know of that has been observed to pass through our solar system from interstellar space; hence, it is a rare and scientifically significant finding.Simply put, the comet didn’t form with the rest of the solar system, but it is an icy one that came from a…
The oldest archaeological record of incest has been found recently during an excavation at the cave site of Grotta della Monaca in Calabria, Italy. The findings of this excavation were revealed in a genetic study published in the journal Communications Biology.The team of researchers found this clue of incest in the remains of a teenage…
In the year 2026, there will be two incredible solar eclipses that will be visible in the sky. These eclipses will provide astronomers with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to witness the Moon aligning with the Sun. There will be two types of eclipses: one will be an annular eclipse, which will result in the formation of a…
