In the 1970s, just 14 giant tortoises remained on Española; now 3,000 are restoring vegetation and bringing albatrosses back to nesting grounds |

In the 1970s, just 14 giant tortoises remained on Española; now 3,000 are restoring vegetation and bringing albatrosses back to nesting grounds |

On Española, one of the smaller islands in the Galápagos, the landscape is being reshaped by animals that spend much of their time moving slowly through it. Giant tortoises push through grasses, knock down vegetation and leave broad paths behind them as they travel. Their effect is easy to miss if viewed as ordinary grazing. … Read more

A swirling ripple on his arm: Virat Kohli’s new tattoo is getting major attention

A swirling ripple on his arm: Virat Kohli’s new tattoo is getting major attention

Virat Kohli has added another piece of ink to his already impressive tattoo collection.The former India captain was recently spotted getting a new tattoo on his left arm, and pictures from the session have quickly made their way across social media. The design is unlike some of Kohli’s more obvious symbolic tattoos, featuring a circular … Read more

From sweet to sour crude: India’s bitumen supply improves, but prices remain elevated

From sweet to sour crude: India’s bitumen supply improves, but prices remain elevated

Bitumen prices remain elevated in India as supply improves but crude sourcing challenges keep road construction costs high NEW DELHI: India had faced a severe bitumen shortage at the peak of the West Asia crisis despite receiving crude supplies from Russia. The reason was that Russian oil is predominantly “sweet crude”, making it unsuitable for … Read more

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: From strange worlds to rare planets: Nasa’s Roman Telescope begins its cosmic hunt

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: From strange worlds to rare planets: Nasa’s Roman Telescope begins its cosmic hunt

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the space observatory Roman Telescope lifts off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Nasa‘s newest flagship space observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, blasted off from Florida on Sunday on a mission to search for planets beyond the Solar System and investigate some of the … Read more

India reaches fiscal deficit target for 2025-26, credit ratings improving: FM Sitharaman in US

India reaches fiscal deficit target for 2025-26, credit ratings improving: FM Sitharaman in US

FM Nirmala Sitharaman in Chicago India has met its fiscal deficit target for 2025-26, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday, asserting that the government has stayed on its planned path of fiscal discipline.“We have given ourselves a fiscal discipline path on the fiscal deficit as well. We have fulfilled the trajectory. The last … Read more

Apples in 44°C heat? This engineer quit his corporate job to grow them in Maharashtra

Apples in 44°C heat? This engineer quit his corporate job to grow them in Maharashtra

When you think of apple orchards, Maharashtra is probably not the first place that comes to mind. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand have long dominated India’s apple-growing landscape. Yet in Wakadi village near Shirdi, Maharashtra, engineer-turned-farmer Vikrant Kale has been growing apples despite summer temperatures touching 44°C. According to The Better India, Kale … Read more

ICAR AIEEA PG, AICE-JRF/SRF results 2026 declared: Direct link to download scorecards here

ICAR AIEEA PG, AICE-JRF/SRF results 2026 declared: Direct link to download scorecards here

ICAR AIEEA PG, AICE-JRF/SRF results 2026 The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the results of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) All India Entrance Examination for Admission (AIEEA) Post Graduate (PG) and All India Competitive Examinations (AICE) Junior Research Fellowship (JRF)/Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) Ph.D. programmes for the academic year 2026-27.The results were … Read more

In 2009, Minnesota treated Pickerel Lake with fish poison to remove common carp; afterward water clarity rose nearly 600% and plant cover climbed from 4.6% to 90%

In 2009, Minnesota treated Pickerel Lake with fish poison to remove common carp; afterward water clarity rose nearly 600% and plant cover climbed from 4.6% to 90%

For decades, Pickerel Lake in Minnesota struggled with poor water quality, heavy algal growth and extremely low aquatic plant cover. The shallow lake had become dominated by common carp, a bottom-feeding fish that can disturb lake sediments and alter the movement of nutrients through an aquatic ecosystem.But after the invasive fish were removed in 2009, … Read more

Scientists discovered what happens when diamond is hit at extreme speed, it can rapidly transform into graphite within microseconds |

Scientists discovered what happens when diamond is hit at extreme speed, it can rapidly transform into graphite within microseconds |

Diamond is celebrated as one of the hardest materials known, but new research shows that even its famously rigid structure can be dramatically altered by an impact travelling at hypersonic speed. Scientists have found that diamond particles embedded in a specially engineered ceramic composite can undergo a near-complete transformation into graphite during a collision lasting … Read more