Updated: Aug 3rd, 2025 A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). The agency initially estimated the quake at 6.35 magnitude with a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), but later revised its findings. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center measured the...
Source: IANS WhatsApp banned more than 98 lakh accounts in India during June, as part of its efforts to curb abuse and harmful activity on the platform, according to WhatsApp’s latest India Monthly Report. Of these, nearly 19.79 lakh accounts were banned proactively, before any user complaints were received, the report stated. In addition...
Updated: Aug 1st, 2025 Crews writes her name, with ‘telepathy’, image: X (@NeuraNova9) Audrey Crews, the first female patient to have received Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip, announced that after 20 years of paralysis, she was able to write her name. Unable to move her limbs for the last 20 years, Crews was able to...
Updated: Jul 31st, 2025 In a remarkable scientific discovery, researchers from James Cook University (JCU) identified a new species of giant stick insect — Acrophylla alta — believed to be Australia’s heaviest insect, weighing around 44 grams. The identification was led by Professor Angus Emmott of JCU, who said that there are longer stick insects...
Updated: Jul 31st, 2025 Material that reduces plastic waste, innovated by IIT Madras Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have developed an agriculture waste-based packaging material, which can be a sustainable alternative to conventional plastic foams used in packaging. The researchers demonstrated that mycelium-based biocomposites grown on agricultural and paper waste provide...
Updated: Jul 30th, 2025 NISAR to be launched today The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA are set to launch their collaborative Earth observation satellite, NISAR, on Wednesday, at 5.40 pm IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The mission, valued at $1.5 billion, aims to revolutionise the way we monitor Earth’s...
Updated: Jul 29th, 2025 Representative image In a major leap towards the search for habitable worlds beyond our Solar System, scientists have confirmed that an exoplanet located 124 light years from Earth is rich in water, raising hopes that it could support a hidden liquid ocean. The planet, K2-18 b, orbits a cool dwarf star...
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), slated for launch next week, is a result of global teamwork and technology, said the Indian space agency. NISAR is the first joint satellite mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA. NISAR will be launched by ISRO’s GSLV-F16 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC SHAR) in...
Google, Microsoft may stop hiring from India US President Donald Trump has reportedly urged major tech companies like Google and Microsoft to stop hiring workers in India and other countries, asking them to prioritise creating jobs within the United States. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington on Wednesday, Trump criticised what he described as...
Updated: Jul 23rd, 2025 A solar eclipse happens when the Moon moves directly between the Earth and the Sun The world is set to witness the longest solar eclipse in 100 years on August 2, 2027. As per Metro, a British tabloid, the solar eclipse will take place in 10 countries where the Sun will...