People can enjoy the amazing sight of a blue moon once every two or three years. A blue moon is the result of an uneven cycle of moon phases. Generally, it takes 29.5 days for moon to pass all its 12 phases. Due to the uneven cycle, there is a 13th full moon which appears…
Like many useful innovations, it seems, the creation of high-quality steel by Indian metallurgists more than two thousand years ago may have been a happy confluence of clever workmanship and luck. Firing chunks of iron with charcoal in a special clay container produced something completely new, which the Indians called wootz. Roman armies were soon…
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who remains in space due to significant delay in Starliner’s return, has been contributing to studies focused on analyzing the effects of spaceflight on the human body. She herself has been undergoing body tests at the International Space Station ever since she reached there on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 6….
The appearance of type 2 diabetes in children and teens puzzled physicians from the start. Fida Bacha recalls working as a paediatric endocrinology fellow in Pittsburgh shortly after 2000 when young, overweight and obese patients began to arrive at the clinic, some describing increased thirst, more frequent trips to the bathroom and other symptoms of…
The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared spectacular images from space of celestial bodies, planets, nebula, moon, star clusters, interacting galaxies, etc. Here are a few images from space shared by NASA. Eta Carinae may be about to explode, the time is not confirmed yet. It is a stellar system…
Since mid-July, temperatures in parts of Antarctica have risen to 50 degrees Fahrenheit above average. The heat is expected to persist into early August. Scientists are worried about the implications of the historic heat wave in the continent, which is usually known for its extremely-low temperatures. This unusual warmth during Antarctica’s coldest season might signal…
FILE PHOTO: Neuralink logo and Elon Musk photo are seen in this illustration taken, December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic Neuralink has successfully implanted, in a second patient, its device designed to give paralysed patients the ability to use digital devices by thinking alone, according to the startup’s owner Elon…
Stuck in Space: NASA is staring at possible âcongestionâ aboard the International Space Station (ISS), that is currently housing stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry (Butch) Wilmore, as per a New York Times report. The United States’ space agency’s upcoming mission dubbed âCrew-9â is scheduled to depart for space on August 18, and…
Mountaineers walk past the Iver glacier close to the El Plomo mountain summit, in the Andes mountain range, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on Thursday….
Mountaineers walk past the Iver glacier close to the El Plomo mountain summit, in the Andes mountain range, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal on Thursday….
