On February 12, Trump announced the EPA would rescind the legal finding it has relied on for nearly 20 years. Among all the wrecking balls he has swung at efforts to decarbonise the US economy, this is the biggest. He claims the legal finding hurts Americans. The EPA’s director, Trump-appointed Lee Zeldin, called the rule…
BENGLURU: The Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) is now systematically scanning the Indian landmass, offering a new way to track one of agriculture’s most critical but invisible factors: soil moisture.Using advanced radar instruments operating in S- and L-bands, the satellite images the country every 12 days, covering wide swathes at high resolution. Scientists have demonstrated…
Orchids are one of the largest and most beautiful plant families in the world and are often affectionately referred to as the ‘royal family’ of plants. According to the Orchid Specialist Group, there are around 28,000 naturally occurring orchid species globally. Orchids are admired for their unique shapes, long-lasting flowers, and exotic colours, and are found…
There was a time when the planet was crawling with enormous dinosaurs, the next, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit, and life changed forever. Almost 66 million years ago, nearly three-quarters of all species vanished in a blink. Fires, tsunamis, scorching heat, it seems nothing stood a chance. But not everything went extinct. Some animals hung on,…
Four new astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, bringing the lab back up to full capacity after several of their colleagues were forced to leave early last month due to a medical issue. The U.S., French and Russian astronauts and cosmonaut launched from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX rocket on Friday for…
Representative image (AI-generated) The growing presence of space debris around Earth is pushing space companies to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to protect satellites and critical missions.Even a tiny fragment of debris can cause serious damage when travelling at extremely high speeds in orbit. Experts estimate that more than a million objects measuring one centimetre…
Think of roof, and you see solar panels. Think of solar, and you see the energy generated during the day, powering appliances and even feeding into the grid, from which it can be bought back at night when the sun is not shining. It’s the world’s most uber solution, where each of us becomes a…
Nicolaus Copernicus (Image source: Wikipedia) Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer from the Renaissance who changed how people thought about the universe. Copernicus was born in 1473 in what is now Poland. He went to universities in Krakow, Italy, and other European cities to study math, astronomy, and medicine. Most scholars at the time…
A new atlas released by Ahmedabad University recorded 181 bird species in Ahmedabad, nearly a third of Gujarat’s avifauna, in a single winter season. The recently published Ahmedabad City Bird Atlas, the first urban bird atlas from Western India, found that insectivorous birds formed the largest group, 25 per cent of the species recorded were migratory visitors, and…
Trapped in Antarctic ice for 66 years, body of British scientist Dennis Bell was recovered (AI-generated) It was not expected that the ice would give anything back. Yet among rocks newly exposed by a retreating glacier on King George Island, a set of human remains was found and documented. A Polish research team working near…