Category: Science

Lake Erie, one of North America’s largest lakes, has surprised everyone this week. A massive crack formed in the ice, stretching so far that it can reportedly be seen from space. People on the north shore in Canada could reportedly spot it all the way down to Cleveland, Ohio. The crack grew over Saturday, pushed […]

NASA finds Earth’s magnetic field may be the hidden reason oxygen has lasted for millions of years Scientists have debated for decades whether Earth’s magnetic field plays a role in keeping the planet habitable. The question matters because Earth stands apart from other rocky worlds. It has a long-lived magnetic field generated deep inside the […]

Humanity has been reaching for the stars for decades. Moon landings, Mars rovers, and long stays on the ISS. But there’s one question that seems to hang in the air: can humans actually have children in space? It sounds simple. But it isn’t. Space is not just empty air with combination of radiation, microgravity, stress, […]

AI expert Dr. Yampolskiy warns nearly all jobs could disappear by 2027, leaving few survivors/ Youtube A leading artificial intelligence researcher has issued a stark warning about the future of work, arguing that most human jobs could disappear within the next five years and that society may pass a technological point of no return by […]

Nikola Tesla (Image source: Wikipedia) Nikola Tesla was a scientist and inventor whose work helped shape the modern world. Born in 1856 in what is now Croatia, Tesla went on to study engineering and physics. Over the course of his life, he imagined and created many ideas that became part of everyday life. His work […]

In an unexpected outcome, the Covid-19 lockdowns, which reduced air pollution worldwide, were linked to a sharp rise in methane levels, a powerful greenhouse gas, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science.Researchers found that methane levels increased at a record pace in the early 2020s because the atmosphere’s natural “cleaning agents”, […]

SpaceX appears to be putting its Mars plans on hold for the time being. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is now prioritising the Moon instead. The current goal is an uncrewed lunar landing scheduled for March 2027, with no astronauts aboard initially. Elon Musk had previously aimed to send an uncrewed mission […]

Space selfies with smartphones? Imagine the shots they could get with a smartphone in hand. NASA has reportedly announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry their own smartphones. This is a bit of a departure from the usual strict rules about what gadgets can fly in […]

Imagine a jet of energy so powerful that it makes even Star Wars’ Death Star look tiny. That’s reportedly what astronomers are seeing from a supermassive black hole 665 million light-years away. The jet, nicknamed Jetty McJetface, is moving at almost the speed of light and is made from the remains of a star torn […]

Isro chairman V Narayanan BENGALURU: Four-and-a-half years after an anomaly in the cryogenic upper stage (CUS) of the GSLV-F10 mission cost India the Geo Imaging Satellite (Gisat-1) or EOS-03, Isro is geared up to launch Gisat-1A or EOS-05, as its replacement. Gisat-1A, designed to provide near real-time images of large “areas of region of interest” […]