Alcohol suppresses water retention, increasing fluid loss faster than the body can replace it/ Representative Image There’s a familiar moment that arrives halfway through a drink, or sometimes the morning after. Your mouth feels oddly dry. Water suddenly looks irresistible. You might not feel drunk anymore, but your body is clearly asking for something it’s…
ISRO is preparing for the launch of BlueBird-6, the biggest US commercial satellite so far, which is now rescheduled for execution on the 21st of December 2025. Earlier, it was scheduled for the 15th of December. Developed in collaboration with the US-based company AST SpaceMobile, the BlueBird-6 satellite aims to establish direct-to-device broadband connectivity for…
Weather forecasts cannot be guaranteed at any time; therefore, understanding the range of possible outcomes is absolutely necessary for making decisions such as issuing public warnings or managing renewable energy. Conventional forecasts rely on numerical weather prediction that involves running physics-based simulations of the atmosphere.Machine learning weather prediction has recently been able to increase the…
Western Washington has been hit by severe flooding after days of relentless rain inundated towns and forced evacuations. While heavy rain is common in the Pacific Northwest, officials and scientists say this event is different in scale and intensity. The main driver is a series of powerful atmospheric rivers. Understanding how they work helps explain…
BENGALURU: The Satcom Industry Association-India (SIA-India) has called for a threefold increase in the national space budget, creation of specialised manufacturing incentives and long-term funding frameworks for connectivity, navigation and earth observation as part of its recommendations submitted to the finance ministry, Department of Space (DoS) and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre…
Image: Screengrab Youtube (Dr Katie Beleznay) In an era when cosmetic treatments can feel abstract, over-marketed or shrouded in jargon, one Canadian dermatologist decided the best explanation was simple: show it. Dr Katie Beleznay, a board-certified dermatologist in both Canada and the United States, based in Vancouver and co-founder of Humphrey & Beleznay Cosmetic Dermatology,…
Kolkata: The sky is not the limit for India and for youngsters aspiring to be astronauts someday. The message landed in the auditorium of the Indian Centre for Space Physics off EM Bypass when Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to make it to the International Space Station (ISS), addressed around 200 students at an…
YouTuber puts a camera inside an air fryer to finally see what happens when the drawer closes/ (YouTube/Casual Cooking) Air fryers are now as common as kettles, an appliance people swear by, compare, and gift to relatives who didn’t ask for one. They’ve become increasingly impossible to ignore, even if you don’t own one. They’re…
New physics reveals detailed calculations showing the universe’s end may come far sooner than expected, with an exact timeline/ Image: Space.com For decades, physicists assumed the universe would fade into darkness over a timescale so vast it barely fits in notation: around 10¹¹⁰⁰ years. But researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands now say the…
Scientists Say Invisible Black Holes Could Be Passing Right Through You The most dangerous thing in your living room is probably still a rogue plug or a Lego brick. But according to some physicists, there could also be thousands of black holes drifting through that same space every year, through your walls, your sofa, even…
It sounds dramatic to imagine one half of Earth slowly losing its internal warmth faster than the other, but that is the general direction many researchers are now exploring. When geophysicists looked at long-term heat flow inside the planet, they noticed that the hemisphere covered mostly by the Pacific Ocean appears to be shedding heat…
The once-deepest hole now sits sealed shut under an unimpressive metal cap, surrounded by rusted bolts and debris/ Image: Mr. Nobody Medium During the space race, the US and the USSR were busy firing rockets into the sky. At the same time, out on Russia’s Kola Peninsula near the Norwegian border, Soviet engineers were doing…
Woman Born with Two Uteruses Shares Candid Insights and Answers Reddit’s Most Personal Questions It’s rare to hear firsthand from someone born with one of the least common reproductive conditions on record, and even rarer to hear them explain it with this much clarity and humour. That’s how a 27-year-old woman on Reddit recently described…
Daylight will fade, temperatures to drop and the world to fall into the ‘world of total darkness’. A celestial event for which skywatchers across the world are preparing to witness a rare once-in-a-lifetime event. In August 2027, the world is going to witness its rare longest solar eclipse in 100 years, which will experience 6…
Urban air travel is finally getting real attention. Cities are desperate for better ways to move people and things, and electric air taxis and drones have gone from wild sci-fi ideas to actual plans. Now, engineers are working on small aircraft that can zip over traffic jams, carrying folks or packages across town in a…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, and it has refused to sit neatly in the…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, it refused to sit neatly in the “just another…
Old airport security used Rapiscan backscatter scanners that showed fully detailed body images/ image:X If you’ve ever shuffled through an airport body scanner wondering how much the machine can actually see, you’re not alone. For a while, the answer was: far more than most travellers realised. And that’s exactly why the technology had to change….
BENGALURU: More than a year after the most disruptive solar event in more than two decades, Indian scientists have pieced together why the May 2024 storm, now known as Gannon’s storm, struck Earth with such force. A new study in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters draws on observations from India’s Aditya-L1 satellite and six US…
BENGALURU: Fresh analysis of data from the Chandrayaan-3 lander has revealed that the plasma environment near the Moon’s southern high latitudes is far more active than earlier believed. The results, based on measurements collected between Aug 23, 2023 and Sept 3, 2023, mark the first direct observations of near-surface plasma at such low altitudes in…
