Category: Science

Khurram Daud (left) and Muhammad Zeeshan Ali. | Photo Credit: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of Pakistan/Facebook Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of Pakistan/Facebook Two Pakistani pilots are memorising Mandarin, spinning in centrifuge drills, and learning to eat, sleep and repair equipment while weightless ​as a decision nears on which one will become…

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Finding that blowing the nose inappropriately could lead to a sinus infection won the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine. | Photo Credit: Mohammad Hosein Safaei/Unsplash On September 3, a dozen people from various countries were declared to be the recipients of the Ig Nobel Prizes for 2026. Some readers may wonder what an Ig…

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The next United Nations climate change conference, COP31, will be held in Antalya in Türkiye in November this year. Türkiye will be hosting the event, with its environment minister Murat Kurum serving as COP31 president. Australia will oversee the negotiations process, with its energy and climate change minister Chris Bowen as the vice-president of COP31….

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To help us retain the information about the Second World War, Rani Miss, our History teacher, divided the class into three groups. A few students were the Axis powers, another set was the Allied powers, and the rest were bodies like the League of Nations and the UN. A History class that could have been…

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Fixing higher education requires completely redesigning how we recruit, train, and support faculty, while overhauling the legacy administrative and disciplinary protocols that govern our campuses. Ask the toppers of any graduating class what they want to do next- university teaching rarely tops the list. The reason is simple: teaching is not perceived as a competitive,…

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Weightlifters sometimes grunt or exhale deliberately as part of contracting muscles around the trunk. | Photo Credit: Victor Freitas/Unsplash A: When you physically exert while doing a task, you may also briefly hold your breath, releasing it as the effort eases. Your body may also contract the muscles around the trunk, making the torso more…

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The National River-Linking Project is the world’s most ambitious project of its kind to date, proposing to link 37 major river basins across India using 30 links, potentially redistributing around 174 billion cubic metres of water from ‘surplus’ to ‘deficit’ basins while generating some 34,000 MW of power. Yet the Project has also raised serious…

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Nicolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887-1943) was a remarkable agricultural scientist in the former USSR. His name is familiar to some as an ‘Indiana Jones’ who roamed around the world collecting crops and seeds, as someone who established the first global seed bank, as a martyr who died in prison despite his extraordinary accomplishments, and as the…

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