Science

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice sheets began spreading across the polar regions. Yet there was an awkward detail that never quite fitted. Antarctica became locked beneath vast quantities of ice around 34 million years ago, while the Arctic remained largely … Read more

Forty Thousand Cubic Meters of Fresh Water Flow from the Congo into the Atlantic Every Second. A New Study Traces Where It Goes from There. Every second, the Congo River releases about 40,000 cubic metres of freshwater into the Atlantic Ocean. That makes it the world’s second largest river by discharge. But once that enormous … Read more

Quote of the day by Richard Dawkins (AI-generated image) Ask most people why a chicken exists, and they will describe eggs as something a chicken produces along the way. Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, flipped that relationship on its head. “The chicken is only an egg’s way of making another egg,” he wrote, treating the … Read more

Photographic view during the Static Test of SOLVE-ST01 NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the first ground test of the solid motor for its Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle for Experiments (SOLVE), a new test platform being developed to support the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.The static test was carried out at the … Read more

Quote of the day by Alan Turing (AI-generated image) Long before anyone had built a machine capable of holding a real conversation, Alan Turing was already asking what would happen the day one finally could. “If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?” he … Read more

Astronomers have detected light from a tiny but powerful galaxy that existed when the universe was still emerging from a vast fog of hydrogen gas. The discovery, made using the Hubble Space Telescope and confirmed with data from the James Webb Space Telescope and a giant telescope in Chile, gives scientists one of their clearest … Read more

Scientists Thought Ravens Followed Wolves for Food. They Were Wrong. Ravens Predict Them For decades, biologists believed ravens found their next meal by shadowing wolves across the landscape until the predators made a kill. A new study in and around Yellowstone National Park suggests the birds are using a far more sophisticated strategy.Instead of constantly … Read more

Studies show that the ancient timber circle, dubbed “Seahenge,” was built in 2049 B.C. It was excavated from a salt marsh near a beach on England’s east coast in 1999. (Image credit: Holmes Garden Photos/Alamy) A mysterious wooden monument buried beneath the Norfolk coast may have been built more than 4,000 years ago in an … Read more

For decades, Antarctica has been treated as a kind of frozen time capsule, a place where evidence of Earth’s deep past sits preserved, undisturbed, beneath layers of ice that have built up over millions of years. As per the study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists have now uncovered something remarkable within that buried record: an … Read more

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After spending nearly eight years weaving through the inner Solar System, the European-Japanese spacecraft is now approaching the point it was designed to reach from the very beginning. As reported by ESA, in November 2026, Mercury is … Read more