A massive galaxy in the early universe has been caught in the final stages of its life, providing astronomers with some of the strongest evidence yet for how giant galaxies die. Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have identified a powerful outflow of gas…
Love has inspired poetry, fuelled wars, launched lifelong partnerships and broken countless hearts. It can feel overwhelming, irrational and impossible to explain. Yet some of the most important clues about why humans fall in love did not emerge from studies of couples, philosophers or poets. Instead, they came from a small brown rodent scurrying through…
Jonas Salk (Image: Wikipedia) A few years ago, a university lecturer described a scene that repeated itself every autumn. New students would arrive carrying boxes, bedding and more parental advice than they could possibly use. Mothers adjusted collars. Fathers offered practical tips about bank accounts, train tickets and budgeting. Everyone tried to appear calm.Then came…
A patch of the Pacific Ocean has been quietly warming again, drawing attention from meteorologists who spend their time watching patterns most people never think about. The signals are not dramatic on their own: a few degrees here, a shift in sea surface temperatures there, winds behaving slightly differently than expected. But these small changes…
Most people notice litter, shake their heads and move on. Edgar McGregor did something different. In 2019, while hiking through California’s Eaton Canyon, the Pasadena resident was struck by the sheer volume of rubbish scattered along trails, tucked beneath bushes and caught in streambeds. Plastic bottles, food wrappers and discarded containers had become a familiar…
On 30 June 1971, recovery teams in Kazakhstan approached a Soyuz capsule that appeared to have completed a flawless return from space. The spacecraft had undocked from the world’s first space station, survived re-entry, deployed its parachutes, and landed exactly as planned. Yet when the hatch was opened, commanders found all three cosmonauts dead. The…
There is a familiar habit in the tech world of treating efficiency as a kind of reset button. If machines get faster, smaller, and smarter, then the resources behind them are assumed to shrink too. That idea is now being tested more uncomfortably. A recent United Nations report has pulled together a range of projections…
The ascent of a 6,200-metre (20,341 ft) volcano by a walking humanoid machine sounds, at first, like one of those lab demonstrations that never quite leaves controlled conditions. Yet this time it did. A modified robot reached the summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador, spending hours moving across ash, rock, and ice before being carried through…
Anaemia was dropped from the sixth National Family Health survey launched in 2023 saying that it will be surveyed more scientifically in the Diet and Biomarkers Survey in India (DABS-I) launched in December 2022. However, the anaemia prevalence data from DABS-I is yet to be made public though it was completed in November 2025. According…
Isaac Newton (Image: Wikipedia) Most people know Isaac Newton as the man linked to the falling apple story, though historians still debate how much of that tale is fact and how much belongs to legend. What is beyond dispute is that Newton spent much of his life trying to answer a question that continues to…
Four kilometres beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight and far from shipping lanes, lies a forgotten chapter of the nuclear age.Scattered across a vast stretch of seabed are more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste. They were lowered into the ocean over several decades during the second half of…
BENGALURU: In a renewed push to hand over Isro’s LVM-3 launch vehicle to private industry, space regulator-cum-promoter Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for the transfer of technology (ToT) of the country’s heaviest operational rocket.The move comes more than two years after Space PSU NewSpace India Limited…
