Quote of the day by Carl Linnaeus: “Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason, need to be..” |

Image: Wikipedia/AI-Refined Throughout time, man has always searched for his rightful place within nature. Man is one and the same biological entity as every other living thing, but he possesses unique capabilities of reasoning and questioning which distinguish him from all other species and give him a special vantage point within nature. This idea was…

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NASA is offering up to $500,000 for new technology to measure Earth’s extremely thin upper atmosphere and improve predictions of how space weather changes satellite orbits

Representative Image (AI-generated) Earth’s atmosphere does not simply end where airplanes stop flying. Far above the planet, in a region known as the thermosphere, an extremely thin layer of gas continues to interact with satellites orbiting Earth. Changes in this region may seem insignificant, but they can alter atmospheric drag and gradually affect the paths…

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For the first time in history, astronauts use portable X-ray technology in space that could pave the way for future Moon and Mars missions |

Representative preflight, in-flight, and post-flight hand radiographs. Radiographs of the hand were acquired (A) preflight by a crew member, (B) in-flight on day 1 after launch (L+1) by a crew member, and (C) post-flight by a non-crew operator using the same imaging protocol. Image Credit: Radiological Society of North America(RSNA)​ The first X-rays taken in…

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Two Kochi postgraduates turned a mud-crab farming problem into a national-winning startup, earning a Rs 10 lakh grant for a bucket system that can help farmers raise premium crabs inland

Arundas N H and Aswathy T (PC: ccari) Two postgraduates from Kochi have made headlines after turning a stubborn challenge in mud-crab farming into a technology-driven startup. The two brilliant minds have now won national recognition along with a ₹10 lakh innovation grant. Meet Arundas N H and Aswathy T, the two graduates of the…

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Meet Jonathan Yan, the 18-year-old California student who studied 479 human cancer cell lines; when he blocked one highly active pathway, the cancer cells stopped spreading

Yan carried out the research as part of his computational biology and bioinformatics project. 18-year-old Jonathan Yan, a student from Irvine, California sucessfully stopped spread of cancer cells by blocking the transsulfuration pathway in cancer cell lines. Yan studied 479 human cancer cell lines as part of his computational biology and bioinformatics project for the…

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Scientists create a ‘laundry gun’ that kills microbes on astronauts’ clothes without water, paving the way for Mars missions |

The prototype ‘laundry gun’ in action during a fabric treatment test. Astronauts heading on long missions to Mars could face a surprisingly ordinary problem: how to keep their clothes clean without wasting precious water. Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, working with NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center, have developed a small device that…

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Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge…” – the deeper meaning behind his view of intelligence |

There is a difference between knowing something and being able to see what might come next. Knowledge gives people facts, experience and established ways of understanding the world. Imagination works in a less certain space, where an idea can be considered before there is evidence to prove whether it will work. Albert Einstein often spoke…

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Scientists found the world’s fastest star moving at 15,500 miles per second, over 8% the speed of light, and it could test Einstein’s theory |

Astronomers have found what is currently the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint star racing through the extreme environment around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Called S301, the star reaches a staggering speed of about 15,500 miles per second, or 25,000 kilometres per second, which…

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