Science

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but very dramatic, option. A collision of asteroid 2024 YR4, approximately 60 metres long, with the Moon in December 2032 could result in an impact visible from Earth due to the enormous force. Researchers, however,…

Historically, many scientists and society have been fascinated by the prospect of making contact with extraterrestrial civilisations. People around the world have wished for the day we discover an advanced race living on another planet and eventually reach out to us. Many accepted assumptions about when we will discover and how we would receive transmissions…

These shrimp, in huge colonies, snap their claws, creating a racket that can touch 210 decibels. Scientists say this can be louder than ship engines. AI image When asked which is the loudest animal in the ocean, most people would guess it’s a whale — maybe a sperm whale which clicks at an ear-rattling 230…

Universal law derived by French physicist predicts fragment sizes using entropy & probability.A dropped plate, broken spaghetti and a smashed drinking glass all seem to follow the same law of physics when it comes to how many fragments of a given size they will shatter into.For several decades, researchers have known that there is something…

The James Webb space telescope has found a weird planet that is shaped like a lemon. This planet is 2,000 light-years away from us. The James Webb Space Telescope is changing the way we think about planets that are really far away from us. It is showing us things that we do not normally see…

Ice might appear as a weird construction material, but still, ice on Mars can be the base for human civilisations in the future. Scientists are convinced that frozen water could be the means of survival and the source of prosperity of people on Mars.The idea of building cities on Mars has been a fantasy of…

History is the only way to find out the past and predict the future. This is why one of the most exciting and thrilling jobs in the world is archaeology, where you dive deep into the layers of the Earth to get to know more about it. They say a head carries a thousand thoughts,…

Indian-origin professors Subhasish Mitra of Stanford University and Tathagata Srimani of Carnegie Mellon University are at the centre of a breakthrough that could reshape how artificial intelligence hardware is built in the United States. Along with a multi-institutional team spanning Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, they have developed America’s first monolithic…

One of Britain’s most prominent space scientists believes humanity may finally get an answer to one of its oldest questions within the next few decades. Maggie Aderin-Pocock says she is “absolutely convinced” that life exists beyond Earth and predicts that scientists will confirm its existence by around 2075. Speaking ahead of her Royal Institution Christmas…

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because of its 91 billion DNA base pairs, it has now officially been confirmed that this genome has fully decoded, the largest animal genome heretofore achieved by human genetic engineering, thirty times larger than…