Science

Weather‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ forecasts cannot be guaranteed at any time; therefore, understanding the range of possible outcomes is absolutely necessary for making decisions such as issuing public warnings or managing renewable energy. Conventional forecasts rely on numerical weather prediction that involves running physics-based simulations of the atmosphere.Machine learning weather prediction has recently been able to increase the…

Western Washington has been hit by severe flooding after days of relentless rain inundated towns and forced evacuations. While heavy rain is common in the Pacific Northwest, officials and scientists say this event is different in scale and intensity. The main driver is a series of powerful atmospheric rivers. Understanding how they work helps explain…

BENGALURU: The Satcom Industry Association-India (SIA-India) has called for a threefold increase in the national space budget, creation of specialised manufacturing incentives and long-term funding frameworks for connectivity, navigation and earth observation as part of its recommendations submitted to the finance ministry, Department of Space (DoS) and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre…

Kolkata: The sky is not the limit for India and for youngsters aspiring to be astronauts someday. The message landed in the auditorium of the Indian Centre for Space Physics off EM Bypass when Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to make it to the International Space Station (ISS), addressed around 200 students at an…

New physics reveals detailed calculations showing the universe’s end may come far sooner than expected, with an exact timeline/ Image: Space.com For decades, physicists assumed the universe would fade into darkness over a timescale so vast it barely fits in notation: around 10¹¹⁰⁰ years. But researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands now say the…

Scientists Say Invisible Black Holes Could Be Passing Right Through You The most dangerous thing in your living room is probably still a rogue plug or a Lego brick. But according to some physicists, there could also be thousands of black holes drifting through that same space every year, through your walls, your sofa, even…

It sounds dramatic to imagine one half of Earth slowly losing its internal warmth faster than the other, but that is the general direction many researchers are now exploring. When geophysicists looked at long-term heat flow inside the planet, they noticed that the hemisphere covered mostly by the Pacific Ocean appears to be shedding heat…

Daylight will fade, temperatures to drop and the world to fall into the ‘world of total darkness’. A celestial event for which skywatchers across the world are preparing to witness a rare once-in-a-lifetime event. In August 2027, the world is going to witness its rare longest solar eclipse in 100 years, which will experience 6…

Elon Musk has once again jumped into the alien debate, offering a straightforward take on one of the internet’s favourite topics: UFO sightings. In a recent clip that has gone viral, Musk said that although strange objects in the sky often make headlines, the real explanations are usually far less dramatic. His comments have restarted…

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…