Galileo Galilei, whose studies of falling bodies and accelerated motion laid the groundwork for the principle later demonstrated by Apollo 15 on the Moon. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Two people can look up at the same familiar Moon and experience it in completely different ways. One sees a flat, silver disk, a fixture of the…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Maryland is giving residents a new option for what happens to their bodies after death. According to WYPR, a public radio station serving Maryland, the state is now home to what is described as the nation’s largest human composting facility: a 37,000-square-foot facility in Elkridge operated by Earth Funeral. The facility uses…
A mosquito does not need to die for its role in malaria transmission to be interrupted. That idea sits at the centre of a 2025 study led by researchers associated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who tested a different way of using bed nets: instead of relying entirely on insecticides to kill…
(Representative Image) Tests showed that ethanol-blended diesel did not meet the required flash point specifications (Photo: PTI). NEW DELHI: Blending ethanol with diesel may not be viable after tests by state-owned oil retailers found that it sharply lowers the fuel’s flash point, even as the govt is exploring ethanol’s use as an alternative cooking fuel…
PC: Open Access Government On a warm day, a wall is usually something to escape from rather than something that helps cool a room. At Graz University of Technology in Austria, that assumption is being turned around with a ceramic structure that uses little more than water, porous clay and evaporation. The experimental cooling cubes…
UK-based OCI cardholder booked by Pune Police in alleged religious conversion case NEW DELHI: Pune Police on Tuesday registered an FIR against an Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder from the United Kingdom for allegedly attempting to convert people to Christianity through religious gatherings.DCP Prashant Amrutkar of the Pune City Police’s Special Branch said the…
Duan Jansen (Photo by Getty Images) Duan Jansen, twin brother of South Africa all-rounder Marco Jansen, has earned his maiden senior call-up and could make his international debut during South Africa’s upcoming white-ball tour of Namibia.The 15-member squad, led by experienced spinner Bjorn Fortuin, will play a T20I tri-series involving Namibia and Zimbabwe before taking…
Mexican national Erik Santana-Garcia. A Mexican national who had been deported from the US multiple times before illegally reentering the country has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors, the US Department of Justice said.Erik Santana-Garcia, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced on July 30 to 20…
NEW DELHI: Will the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal revive their decades-old ties in Punjab for the 2027 assembly elections? Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, who has been playing a key role in BJP’s Punjab plans, has ruled out any such possibility. His denial comes amid a strong alliance buzz triggered by a…
When billionaire hedge fund manager Ian Wace bought Tanera Mòr in Scotland’s remote Summer Isles in 2017, the 800-acre island had little resemblance to the thriving community it had once been. Its historic buildings had fallen into disrepair, its population had dwindled and much of the land had become overgrown. Wace paid about £1.7 million…