Bihar has positioned itself as a leader among eastern Indian states in promoting decentralised renewable energy and off-grid solar solutions, unveiling an ambitious target of 340 MW of off-grid renewable energy by 2030. The policy places significant emphasis on solar-powered livelihood applications that promise to transform rural economies across the region. The state’s newly unveiled…
To study comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object to be found passing through our solar system, NASA is going all out with a solar system wide observation campaign that is unheard of in nature. The comet that was first detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in…
One of the first white-tailed eagles to fledge in England for hundreds of years has vanished in suspicious circumstances, alongside two more “devastating” disappearances of the reintroduced raptor. Police are appealing for public help as they investigate the disappearances, which are a setback to the bird’s successful reintroduction. Their disappearance is being investigated by several…
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Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now been shown to have originated from southern England. The mystery of the skeleton’s shifting identity was finally resolved after advances in DNA sequencing produced a high-quality genetic readout from…
La Niña came back to the equatorial Pacific after a short break when the El Niño Southern Oscillation neutral phase was detected in the middle of the year. The event is going to last from September 2025 to December and is considered a relatively weak one, so the question arises about the extent of its…
The VB-GRAMG Bill, introduced in Parliament on December 16, undeniably expands the formal scope of rural employment. Section 5 enhances the statutory entitlement by guaranteeing “not less than one hundred and twenty-five days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work”, an increase…
Clean energy subsidies in India rose by 31 per cent year on year to nearly Rs 32,000 crore in the 2023-24 financial year, while fossil fuel subsidies fell by 12 per cent, narrowing the gap between the two to its lowest level in five years, according to a new report. However, government support for fossil…
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is grieving after the “shocking” shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to officials. Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, had been shot multiple times at his home in Brookline on Monday night when police said they received a call to investigate. Emergency responders…
The plane pushed through wall after wall of sleet on its descent into Manchester. I’d had a sinking feeling during the flight that only deepened as I shuffled through the terminal. I resented having to be back in the city where I had grown up, after living on the other side of the world for…