The ring-shaped track that scientists used to study tiny particles called muons at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we … Read more
The Andromeda galaxy, imaged here by a Nikon Z7 camera in 2023, is about 2.5 million lightyears away and moving towards the Milky Way galaxy at around 110 km/s. | Photo Credit: Lviatour (CC BY-SA) It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported … Read more
A three-month-old black Labrador puppy with eyes set aglow by a camera flash. | Photo Credit: Jazzjohnn (CC BY-SA) A: Nocturnal animals such as cats are adapted to dim light. Their retina has more rod cells, which aid scotopic vision or vision under dark conditions, than cone cells, which aid photopic vision or vision under … Read more
To live a cozy life on the earth, a temperature of around 25° to 30° C is ideal. But during a heat wave, where temperatures can cross 40° C, the consequences can be deadly. Humans and most complex multicellular organisms are not built to tolerate such heat. That doesn’t mean no living thing can, however. … Read more
A high-powered committee of experts, chaired by Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) Ajay Sood, has recommended that India do away with a decade-long policy of mandating equipment, called Flu Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) units, in all coal-fired thermal power plants (TPPs), according to documents perused by The Hindu. These FGD units are required to be retro-fitted in … Read more
Women carry fodder for their cattle through a mustard field on the outskirts of Srinagar. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Rapeseed-mustard oil (hereafter ‘mustard oil’) is the third-largest edible oil consumed in India. Two executive and judicial decisions on mustard oil — one from 2021 and another from 2024 — have major public health implications, … Read more
A high-powered committee of experts, chaired by Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) Ajay Sood, has recommended that India do away with a decade-long policy of mandating equipment, called Flu Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) units, in all coal-fired thermal power plants (TPPs), according to documents perused by The Hindu. These FGD units are required to be retro-fitted in … Read more
Axiom Space’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 pm IST, onboard SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. File. Axiom Space’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three … Read more
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru | Photo Credit: File photo Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) have developed an artificial metal-based nanozyme that can potentially be used to clamp down on abnormal blood clotting caused by conditions like pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). According to IISc., under normal circumstances, when a blood vessel is injured, … Read more
Smoke rises from wildfire LWF090, the Caribou Lake Wildfire, in an aerial photograph northwest of Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada on May 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: Reuters Exposure to wildfire smoke may increase lung cancer patients’ risk of dying from their disease, particularly among non-smokers, but the effect may be mitigated by certain cancer treatments, … Read more