Updated: Oct 28th, 2025 Image: Science Daily A new study has revealed that Antarctica’s melting ice may be concealing a significant climate process influencing how the planet stores carbon. The research, published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by Science Daily under the title ‘Melting Ice is Hiding a Massive Climate Secret Beneath Antarctica’, sheds...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 17 years in prison each in the Toshakhana-2 corruption case, dealing a major blow to the jailed PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) founder. The verdict was delivered by a special court of the Federal Investigation Agency...
Updated: Oct 22nd, 2025 As the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS moves through the inner Solar System, a new research paper by an Indian astrobiologist has proposed a systematic way to test whether such visitors could show signs of artificial activity. 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our solar system to be discovered from outside...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen on Saturday claimed that Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das, who was brutally killed in a mob lynching in Bangladesh, had been falsely accused of blasphemy by a Muslim coworker at his factory in Mymensingh district. She said the horrific incident unfolded despite...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 The United States carried out airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State (IS) targets across central Syria, officials said, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US personnel last week. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the strikes targeted “ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites” under an operation dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike,...
Updated: Oct 21st, 2025 A revolutionary electronic eye implant has enabled people who lost their vision due to an age-related and previously untreatable condition to read again, marking a major advance in artificial vision technology. The miniature implant, called Prima, measures just 2mm by 2mm and is thinner than a human hair. It is placed...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 A former US Foreign Service officer has alleged widespread abuse of the H-1B visa program, claiming that weak oversight and organised fraud networks in India have allowed thousands of underqualified applicants to enter the American workforce over the past two decades. The allegations were made by Mahvash Siddiqui, a US Foreign...
Updated: Oct 20th, 2025 Amazon Web Services is facing a major outage on Monday that has affected online services globally, including AI platforms, e-commerce platforms, popular websites and online games. Access to Amazon’s virtual assistant technology Alexa, the social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, the AI platform ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online...
The suspected Brown University shooter, who was at large, was found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, police said, as per reports. By December 14, the campus remained in lockdown, with university urging all members of the community to remain vigilant and shelter in place. At least two people were killed and nine others wounded Saturday...
Updated: Oct 20th, 2025 Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, on Saturday said India has developed its first indigenously discovered antibiotic ‘Nafithromycin’, which is effective against resistant respiratory infections, particularly useful for cancer patients and poorly controlled diabetics. According to the minister, the antibiotic is the first molecule...