Science

A surprising new scientific study has revealed that the heart has a small network of neurons capable of controlling essential bodily functions. The research conducted at Yale University in US, was published in July 2026 in the scientific journal Cell. It revealed that this nervous system participates in regulating heartbeats and also protects the organ…

Image Credit: By Calistemon – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127909261 The global race to combat climate change has started a debate on how we use our energy, moving us toward a world powered by wind, sun, and electricity. We view technologies like electric vehicles and battery storage systems as beneficial for the planet, but…

For centuries, honey bees introduced from Europe quietly became part of life across the Americas, pollinating crops and producing honey without drawing much attention beyond farms and gardens. That picture shifted during the second half of the twentieth century after an agricultural breeding project in Brazil took an unexpected turn. What began as an attempt…

Image Credit: Shutterstock The Earth revolves in a cosmic system which is surrounded by billions of asteroids often referred to as ‘fossils’ of our solar system. While these rocks are rich in resources, they represent a significant threat to humanity. In response, China has developed an ambitious planetary defence strategy that aims to do more…

Since the first planet beyond our solar system was confirmed in the 1990s, astronomers have gone on to catalogue more than 6,000 exoplanets, yet not a single moon orbiting any of them has ever been confirmed. That long, frustrating gap in the search for exomoons may have just gotten stranger rather than simpler. While studying…

Deep beneath the Pilbara region of Western Australia lies some of the oldest and best preserved crust anywhere on the planet, and it has just revealed something unexpected about Earth’s earliest history. Volcanic rocks dating back 3.1 billion years show chemical signs that surface water had already travelled deep into the planet’s interior at that…

Today, Mars is a cold, dry planet covered in dust, but scientists believe it looked very different billions of years ago, with a much thicker atmosphere, flowing rivers and lakes, and possibly even conditions that could have supported life. Over time, Mars lost most of that protective atmosphere, the planet cooled, and its water either…

Coffee is brewed billions of times every year, leaving behind mountains of damp grounds that are usually treated as little more than rubbish. Some find a second life in compost or gardening, but the overwhelming share is either burned or buried despite still containing a considerable amount of stored energy. The problem has never really…

Superworms, the larvae of Zophobas morio, are often used as animal feed Scientists tested pet-store ‘superworms’ on animal specimens and found the beetle larvae can clean skeletons for museums without harsh chemicals or bone damage.A common insect larva found in local pet shops is offering museums a safe, cheap, and gentle way to clean animal…

Nasa’s NISAR satellite has captured an unusual view of Antarctica, revealing a frozen landscape that appears to form the shape of a hummingbird from space. The striking pattern is not a feature simply carved by nature, but the result of a mountain interrupting the slow movement of glacier ice around it. Using advanced radar technology,…

Scientists working on Alpine glacier (AI-generated image) Scientists drilled 33 feet into ice and recovered a 2,000-year climate record, a frozen capsule that can reveal how the atmosphere breathed long before modern measurements.High on the Weißseespitze glacier in the eastern Alps, an international research team extracted an ice core barely 33 feet long that preserves…

Honeybees have long depended entirely on flower pollen for a group of essential fats called sterols, nutrients they cannot produce inside their own bodies and cannot get from any other natural food source. As climate change and modern farming reduce the variety of flowers available to bees, access to these sterols has become increasingly scarce,…