Quote of the day by Sigmund Freud (AI-generated image) There is a particular kind of tiredness that comes from constantly checking how you measure up against everyone else. A colleague’s promotion, a friend’s holiday, a stranger’s fitness progress online, each one quietly resets the bar you are judging yourself against. Sigmund Freud, the founder of…
Freshwater ecosystems have spent years under growing pressure from pollution, changing weather patterns and rising temperatures. Rivers and lakes in many parts of the world have been losing dissolved oxygen, placing fish, aquatic plants and countless smaller organisms under increasing strain. That broader pattern has often been presented as one of the more difficult environmental…
DEEP has completed the installation of Vanguard, its pilot subsea human habitat, at Tennessee Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The system now sits 17 metres below the water’s surface following a complex marine operation, marking a significant milestone in subsea engineering and long-duration underwater research capability.The installation enables multi-day subsea missions, allowing…
Almost everyone has noticed it. The water at home tastes perfectly normal, yet the moment you travel to another town or country, every sip feels noticeably different. Some water seems sweet and refreshing, while others taste metallic, salty, earthy or even slightly like chlorine. This isn’t simply imagination. The flavour of drinking water is influenced…
Stretching from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is undertaking one of the most ambitious environmental projects ever attempted. Known as the Great Green Wall, the initiative spans around 8,000 kilometres across the Sahel, a vast semi-arid region bordering the Sahara Desert. Its goal is far…
IISc Researchers Rashmita Luha (left) and Ajay Tijore (right) | Credit: IISc BENGALURU: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that low-frequency ultrasound can selectively kill oral cancer cells while leaving healthy cells largely unharmed, raising the possibility of a less invasive treatment for one of India’s most common cancers.Oral cancer remains…
In the early years of the 20th century, conservation in the United States was still taking shape as a profession rather than a philosophy. Forests were being mapped, species counted, land divided into managed zones with a confidence that nature could be organised if only enough data were gathered. Among the young men entering that…
Earth will reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, a yearly astronomical event known as aphelion. At around 152.1 million kilometres from the Sun, the planet will be about 5 million kilometres farther away than it is in early January. Yet, despite this greater distance, the Northern Hemisphere will remain firmly in…
An artist’s impression of the Tunguska airburst over central Siberia on 30 June 1908. An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists finally reached the remote Siberian wilderness where the blast had occurred, they found only a forest laid out like matchsticks. There was…
Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Today’s quote of the day comes from Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist who spent more than five decades living with a diagnosis that was originally expected to kill him within two years. He said, “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for…
Quote of the day by Marie Curie (AI-generated image) Today’s quote of the day comes from Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She wrote, “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”…
For decades, palaeontologists have puzzled over a scene preserved in rock across parts of Mongolia and China. Fossilised oviraptor dinosaurs were repeatedly found sitting over nests in a posture that looked strikingly familiar. Their forelimbs spread across the clutch, their bodies positioned above the eggs, almost as if they were brooding like modern birds.The image…
