Chandrayaan’s Pragyan rover offers evidence of magma ocean on young moon
A long night awaited the Pragyan rover on the moon as it bid farewell to operators at the Indian Spa...
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fMRI may reveal depression ‘subtypes’ and treatments that could work
Antidepressants and therapy can provide much needed relief to people with mental health illnesses. B...
Cold War nuke tests light up problem with present-day climate models
For billions of years, the carbon cycle has been nature’s solution to removing excess carbon from th...
‘Outstanding work’: IIT-M team makes mineral nanoparticles with water
Water drops are ubiquitous around us and come in different sizes. They can be as large as a raindrop...
When the same element is able to exist in different forms, the forms are called allotropes. Graphene...
Nothing lasts forever. This is good life advice, and it also happens to be an important feature of o...
Brains that don’t see in greyscale first over-rely on colours: Project Prakash study
The world has many colours and being able to see them is a great source of joy. But a newborn baby m...
Complex PTSD: When trauma persists…
Around 4% of the world’s population has suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point...
Why do rain clouds appear grey?
Q: Why do clouds usually appear white but look grey when they’re going to rain? Vineeth E.K. A: Scat...
How can the sky glow even after sunset?
Q: How can the sky glow even after sunset? - Jaivanthika Karthikeyan The Sun may have set from our p...
Why are planets formed in a spherical shape?
Q: Why are planets formed in a spherical shape? - Hemant Sardesai A: The short answer is gravity. Th...
Caterpillars may sense threats using electric fields
Caterpillars have a sixth sense that most land-based animals do not. They can sense electric fields ...
An overlooked molecule could help solve the Venus water mystery
More than four billion years ago, Venus had enough water to cover its surface with an ocean 3 km dee...
Stellar nucleosynthesis is the process by which stars forge elements inside their cores. The only el...
More solar storms brewing after last week’s aurorae as Sun ‘wakes up’
On Friday night, people from across the world were treated to a rare spectacle: vivid aurorae hangin...
