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The once-deepest hole now sits sealed shut under an unimpressive metal cap, surrounded by rusted bolts and debris/ Image: Mr. Nobody Medium During the space race, the US and the USSR were busy firing rockets into the sky. At the same time, out on Russia’s Kola Peninsula near the Norwegian border, Soviet engineers were doing…

Woman Born with Two Uteruses Shares Candid Insights and Answers Reddit’s Most Personal Questions It’s rare to hear firsthand from someone born with one of the least common reproductive conditions on record, and even rarer to hear them explain it with this much clarity and humour. That’s how a 27-year-old woman on Reddit recently described…

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is back on Earth after eight months in space, wrapping up a mission packed with science and new experiences. He returned alongside Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, ending a journey that took them around the planet thousands of times. Their work wasn’t just for the sake of curiosity; they…

Urban air travel is finally getting real attention. Cities are desperate for better ways to move people and things, and electric air taxis and drones have gone from wild sci-fi ideas to actual plans. Now, engineers are working on small aircraft that can zip over traffic jams, carrying folks or packages across town in a…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, and it has refused to sit neatly in the…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, it refused to sit neatly in the “just another…

BENGALURU: More than a year after the most disruptive solar event in more than two decades, Indian scientists have pieced together why the May 2024 storm, now known as Gannon’s storm, struck Earth with such force. A new study in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters draws on observations from India’s Aditya-L1 satellite and six US…

BENGALURU: Fresh analysis of data from the Chandrayaan-3 lander has revealed that the plasma environment near the Moon’s southern high latitudes is far more active than earlier believed. The results, based on measurements collected between Aug 23, 2023 and Sept 3, 2023, mark the first direct observations of near-surface plasma at such low altitudes in…

Old airport security used Rapiscan backscatter scanners that showed fully detailed body images/ image:X If you’ve ever shuffled through an airport body scanner wondering how much the machine can actually see, you’re not alone. For a while, the answer was: far more than most travellers realised. And that’s exactly why the technology had to change….

Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational forces in the universe. NASA explains that anything approaching a black hole encounters enormous tidal forces that stretch and distort matter, and that time itself slows dramatically due to gravitational time dilation. According to NASA, if an object…