Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Space and beyond A view of planet Earth from the outer space from the International Space Station window. START THE QUIZ 1 / 10 | Born this day in 1620, Jean Picard was a French astronomer who conducted an arc measurement survey in 1669 by measuring one degree of…
NASA announced that it had to cancel a planned Moon rover after spending $459 million to develop it due to cost overruns and delay in the project. This is a significant setback for the agency’s lunar exploration program, according to a AFP report. The purpose of Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) was to explore…
Questions: 1. Two people are playing a game of chance in rounds. They have equal chances of winning each round. They also contribute equally to a pot that the winner who wins n number of rounds will take. If the game is stopped before the nth round, how should the pot be split? In July…
In a warehouse in the lush humid farmlands of central Thailand, thousands of pythons lie coiled in containers, rearing and striking at the glass as people pass by. They are being raised for their robust, diamond-patterned skins, which are sold to high-end European fashion houses for belts, bags and handbags, but some scientists and industry…
An offshore oil rig platform is photographed in Huntington Beach, California, U.S. July 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters From forest fires to hurricanes and other natural disasters: climate change risk is increasingly influencing oil prices, just as the world is struggling to shift away from high-polluting fossil fuels. Hurricane Beryl became the latest weather…
This artistâs concept envisions what hydrocarbon ice forming on a liquid hydrocarbon sea of Saturnâs moon Titan might look like in this NASA image released on January 8, 2013. | Photo Credit: Reuters NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which explored Saturn and its icy moons, including the majestic Titan, ended its mission with a death plunge into…
The âCandelabraâ hydrothermal vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 3.3 km underwater, seen on June 26, 2011. In the past, scientists have found evidence of ancient life-forms in the precipitates around such vents. | Photo Credit: MARUM (CC BY 4.0) The origin of life on the earth is one of the worldâs most enduring mysteries. There…
An illustration of red and white blood cells. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the bodyâs tissues, including the cells within the arterial walls. White blood monitor the bloodstream for potential threats and respond to infections. | Photo Credit: Getty Images A: Human blood consists of red blood corpuscles as a constituent,…
For the first time, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has said that it transmited a hip-hop song to deep space. As per NASA, on July 12, an inspirational message from Missy Elliott along with lyrics from âThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” a single on her platinum-record debut album, traveled about 158 million miles…
