Bill Nye, famously known as “The Science Guy” and CEO of the Planetary Society, led protests on Capitol Hill earlier this month against proposed NASA budget cuts by the Trump administration. The plan would slash NASA’s funding from roughly $24 billion to $18.8 billion, a nearly 24% reduction, with science mission funding targeted for an…
The story of Soyuz 11 remains one of the most tragic and haunting episodes in human space exploration. On June 30, 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, became the only humans to die in space, beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Their mission had been a triumph: spending 23 days aboard Salyut 1,…
An asteroid made a remarkably close approach to Earth last week, flying nearer than many satellites in low Earth orbit. Named 2025 TF, the space object passed over Antarctica at just 266 miles above Earth’s surface on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 1, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Roughly 3 to 10 feet…
Today, October 8, marks the birth anniversary of Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001), a pioneering Indian scientist whose work transformed the understanding of proteins and medical imaging. Despite his groundbreaking contributions, he never received the recognition he deserved, including a Nobel Prize or India’s prestigious Padma awards. Ramachandran’s work helped explain the fundamental structure of proteins,…
Source: Discover Magazine Millions of years ago, the Red Sea, now a vital marine region, disappeared from the Earth’s surface. Cut off from the world’s oceans, its basin gradually dried into a vast salt desert. About 6.2 million years ago, a catastrophic flood refilled the basin, carving the Bab el-Mandab Strait and shaping the Red…
File photo: US scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis STOCKHOLM: US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”, paving the way for the development of the next generation of digital technologies. “There is no advanced technology today…
Gold may not literally grow on trees, but a groundbreaking study from Finland suggests that nature may come close. Researchers investigating Norway spruce trees in northern Finland found tiny gold nanoparticles inside tree needles. Surprisingly, these particles appear to form with the help of microbes living inside the needles. The study, conducted by the University…
The origins of snakes have baffled scientists for decades. How did these limbless, slithering predators evolve from their distant lizard ancestors? A remarkable discovery on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, may hold the key to this evolutionary mystery. Palaeontologists uncovered the fossil of a unique Jurassic reptile, Breugnathair elgolensis, which displays an extraordinary combination of…
Snakebites remain a silent global health crisis, claiming an estimated 138,000 lives each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Victims often live in rural or underserved regions where access to antivenom is limited, and delays in treatment can be fatal. Traditional antivenoms, created using animal immunisation techniques over a century old, are species-specific,…
A recently circulated photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has sparked renewed fascination with interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The image appears to show a bright, cylindrical object moving across the Martian sky, igniting online debates about its true nature. While some speculate it could be an alien spacecraft, experts suggest the shape may result from long-exposure…
