Science
A natural heater hidden in India’s ‘sacred lotus’ flowers
The ‘sacred lotus’ plant is native to North and Central India and grows in ponds, lakes, and gently flowing waters….
Life pays universe a ‘heat tax’ to run precise chemical reactions
If there’s a soup of cells and you make them settle down and work together in orderly fashion, you reduce…
How did kangaroos evolve to hop?
A kangaroo near White Cliffs, an Outback area in the state of New South Wales, Australia. | Photo Credit: AFP…
The impact of India-EU FTA on AI and semiconductor tech
In a milestone, India and the European Union (EU) have hailed the conclusion of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA)…
Doomsday Clock is 85 seconds to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George, Steve Fetter and Alexandra Bell,…
Private sector seeks anchor contracts as Dept of Space struggles to use funds
From the historic high of landing on the moon to the recent sobering reality of failed launches and near-misses that…
To make sense of cosmic rays, CERN team tracks a fragile nucleus
The hydrogen atom is the lightest in the universe and it consists of the simplest nucleus: a single proton. But…
The Doomsday Clock shows the danger but not the way out
The Doomsday Clock, set at 85 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference on January 23 in Washington…
Science Quiz: On medical disasters
Science Quiz: On medical disasters 1 / 6 | The drug shown here is created by slightly altering the chemical…
Why are some stars blue, some white, some red?
The stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355, which resides in our Milky Way galaxy’s inner regions are seen in…