Category: Science

There’s at least one space race already underway to get to the moon. There’s also another one: to claim radio frequencies and orbital slots in the limited space around the earth. The main participants of this race are companies launching large fleets of satellites working together, called megaconstellations. These megaconstellations are already revolutionising Internet access…

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Earlier this month, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, professor Aninda Sinha and his former doctoral student Faizan Bhat linked the esoteric mathematics of Srinivasa Ramanujan with the principles underlying the physics of turbulent fluids and the expansion of the universe. The bridge they laid was π (pi) — not the humble one but the transcendental…

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When heating water in a microwave, avoid overlong heating and be careful when adding anything to it. | Photo Credit: Dewang Gupta/Unsplash A: Water has a property called surface tension: its surface behaves like a stretched skin that tries to shrink. When a vapour bubble forms inside hot water, surface tension tends to squeeze it….

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The western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) is one of India’s rarest pheasants and the state bird of Himachal Pradesh. It was once found across parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, but now survives in small fragmented pockets. Studies in the forests of Kazinag and Limber in Jammu & Kashmir have revealed that while…

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A car burns during a wildfire in Meda, Portugal, August 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters This year is set to be the world’s second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024’s record-breaking heat, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on December 9. The data is the latest from C3S…

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“You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in/His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed; His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed. He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake; And when you think he’s half asleep,…

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Light that’s too bright can damage the retina. | Photo Credit: Bacila Vlad/Unsplash You’re standing on your balcony in the noon sun. It’s bright. After a moment, you step back into a darker room, and for a few moments you’re unable to see clearly. This is because your eyes need time to adjust. The eyes…

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