It seems like a contradiction. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, so it would be natural to assume it is also the hottest. In reality, that title belongs to Venus, where surface temperatures are hot enough to melt lead. The difference isn’t about distance from the Sun but about what happens after sunlight…
Thousands of candidates waiting for the first round of undergraduate admissions at the University of Delhi (DU) are left refreshing their screens Wednesday evening as the Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) Round 1 seat allotment list is yet to be released.The first allocation list was scheduled to be published at 5 pm on July 16…
Image Credit: Raphael Zufferey Nature has given us amphibians in various forms, from frogs to other multi-environment creatures, yet few things transcend the different domains of Earth as remarkably as the diving birds that inspired the MIT and EPFL researchers. For so long, scientists have long dreamt of a machine that can fly through the…
What started as an unfulfilled dream of owning farmland has blossomed into one of India’s most inspiring terrace gardening success stories. In Udupi, Karnataka, gardener Joseph Lobo has transformed his rooftop into a thriving green oasis that is home to more than 200 varieties of plants. According to The Better India, one of the highlights…
Vaibhav Bhaskar scored so high that authrotities changed the grading system. An Indian-origin student has broken the record of high school grade in Florida with an 11.99 GPA, but this impossible achievement shifted the focus of the administrators to the unhealthy race that they created, bogging down students with pressure. 17-year-old Vaibhav Bhaskar graduated from…
The world of science is full of mysteries and the astronomers explore these mysteries daily. In the most recent update, astronomers recently carried out one of the most detailed radio searches ever on exoplanet K2-18b, which many consider one of the most promising places to search for life beyond our solar system. What they found…
An Anduril Barracuda cruise missile flies towards a target. (Image credit: Anduril Industries) The prolonged conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia have demonstrated the importance of both precision weapons and more importantly the ability to deploy them at scale. Precision firepower is supplanting the massed firepower of yesteryears. Today’s shock and awe is not the…
Some animals sleep with one brain hemisphere while the other remains alert. This adaptation allows them to stay aware of their surroundings and potential dangers. Dolphins and mallard ducks exhibit this unique sleeping behavior for survival. Crocodiles and fur seals also utilize this strategy in different environments. Frigate birds even employ this tactic during long…
Survival story of 16-year-old Md Imran (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: The bus pulled away just after 8 PM. Md Imran, hungry after eight hours on the road, had stepped off during a scheduled ten-minute stop in Bratislava, Slovakia, just looking for biscuits and coffee. He made it back to the platform in time and frantically…
For decades, Charon was often viewed as the quieter half of the Pluto system, a frozen world marked by craters, fractures and vast plains. Yet the surface photographed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has continued to reveal hints that its history was far more dynamic than once thought.A new study published in Nature Communications, titled…
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos Growing up, Lauren Sánchez could not afford to buy a prom dress from a department store, so she hand-stitched her own red gown. Today, as vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, she and her husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, are donating $34 million to help reshape the future of…
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has declared the JoSAA Counselling 2026 round 5 seat allotment result today, July 16. Candidates who took part in the counselling process can now check their allotment status by visiting the official website, josaa.nic.in.To access the result, candidates will have to log in using their application number and password.Candidates…
