Science

Nanobubbles cleaned up the Lincoln reflecting pool: here’s how they could be used on dying seas and lakes zThe Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC has become more than a landmark. It is now a real-world testing ground for nanobubbles, microscopic gas bubbles that can clean water, control algae and may eventually help restore…

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…

Quote of the day by Neil deGrasse Tyson (AI-generated image) Most professions reward certainty. A doctor is expected to diagnose, a lawyer to argue a clear position, a manager to make a firm call. Science runs on the opposite instinct. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium, put it plainly in…

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…

That empty plastic water bottle sitting in your recycling bin might have a second life ahead of it, one that involves powering an electric vehicle, a smartphone or even a renewable energy storage system. Researchers at Penn State University have developed a new method to convert waste PET plastic, the same material used in most…

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…

Out of all the planets in the solar system, Earth is held at the highest prominence. It’s consistent shift of the tectonic plates, existence of life and evolution have made it truly one of a kind.In contrast, Mars looks like a planet whose best days are behind it. Its volcanoes are extinct, its crust is…

Representative image (Photo credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Before a baby’s first breath, life depends on an extraordinary organ that most people rarely think about – the placenta.Acting as the baby’s first life-support system, the placenta delivers oxygen and nutrients, removes waste products, protects the developing fetus and produces hormones essential for sustaining pregnancy.Yet, despite its…

‘Starry Night’ and Van Gogh Most people look at The Starry Night and see a moonlit village beneath a sky alive with swirling stars. Scientists looked at the same painting and saw something else entirely. Hidden within those famous blue spirals is a pattern that resembles one of nature’s most complex phenomena called turbulence.The Starry…

Deep inside the cloud forests of Mexico, certain patches of bark and rotting wood begin to glow a faint, ghostly green once darkness sets in. The source is not the trees themselves but tiny mushrooms growing on them, fungi capable of producing their own light through a chemical reaction inside their cells. For years, very…