The story of life in the oceans changed long before dinosaurs appeared and vanished. Around 252 million years ago, the planet experienced the most destructive biological crisis known in the fossil record, wiping out almost all marine species and reshaping life beneath the waves. Although scientists have spent decades examining what happened during the Permian-Triassic…
The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 75 crew members Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Anil Menon, along with his two Russian cosmonauts on Tuesday lifted off aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft for his first spaceflight, beginning an approximately eight-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS).The spacecraft launched from the Baikonur…
Image Credit: AI Generated If you watch nature documentaries, they often paint the hyena as the ultimate villain of the animal kingdom, a cowardly, cunning scavenger known only for its eerie laugh. However, a new study by researchers from the Department of Ethology at the University of Pisa, the Ngorongoro Hyena Project at the Leibniz…
Carl Jung (Image: Wikipedia) Some habits in other people barely register. Others set off a reaction that feels completely out of proportion to what actually happened. Carl Jung, the psychiatrist who helped shape modern psychology, thought that gap was worth paying attention to. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding…
Representative image of Pluto If you’ve ever waited years for something important – a degree, a promotion, a long journey – you know how strange it feels when the defining moment itself is over in what seems like an instant. That’s exactly what happened with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. Engineers and scientists spent…
Is it normal to forget things once you enter a room? You stride purposefully toward the kitchen to pick up something from the refrigerator, but when you reach the kitchen door, your mind goes blank. You know what got you out of bed, but the moment you walk through the door, you suddenly don’t know…
Representative image generated using AI A broken tooth, embedded in the skull of a dinosaur for 66 million years, offers major hints on how Tyrannosaurus, aka T. rex, the apex predator, may have hunted. The fossil, sitting in the collection of Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies, appears to have preserved an extraordinary moment…
Far below the Arctic Ocean surface, beyond the reach of sunlight and largely untouched by human observation, a month-long expedition has been documenting a world that few people have ever seen. Scientists working aboard a Greenpeace research mission used remotely operated vehicles to explore seamounts, hydrothermal vents and deep seabed habitats off Norway’s coast, recording…
A seismic wave generated by Japan’s devastating 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake travelled nearly 2,900 kilometres to the boundary of Earth’s core, reflected back about 13 minutes later and shifted the entire country eastward by roughly six millimetres, according to a study published in the journal Science. The movement was far too small for anyone…
Scientists have developed a remarkable liquid robot that blurs the line between machines and living organisms. Created by researchers from Seoul National University and Gachon University, the robot is made from liquid metal coated with a dense armour of microscopic particles and embedded with magnetic particles that allow it to be controlled remotely. Unlike conventional…