Category: Science & Tech

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday (January 10, 2026) said its Aditya-L1 solar mission has provided new insights into how a powerful solar storm can impact Earth’s magnetic shield. “The most severe effects occurred during the impact of the turbulent region of the solar storm,” the space agency said in a statement. In...

Winter fog is a familiar hazard across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, reducing visibility for hours at once. The fog often forms inside polluted air near the ground and polluted events tend to last longer. Forecasters have been trying to understand the fog’s vertical structure, i.e. how thick the fog layer is, because thickness helps determine how...

Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL), the Hyderabad-based laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), has achieved a milestone in India’s hypersonic missile programme with the successful long-duration ground test of an actively-cooled scramjet full-scale combustor. The Ministry of Defence said the test was conducted on Friday at DRDL’s state-of-the-art Scramjet Connect Pipe...

‘Do you play music to your plants?’. This was asked of the famous plant biologist James Wong of Kew Gardens in London. He said that it is the vibrations that open the plant’s epidermis. So did the physicist J.C. Bose of Kolkata. What has the latest research into this evergreen question shown? First, the obvious:...

A: The planets are in their present order because they formed from the same spinning disk of gas and dust that became the sun. Parts of this protoplanetary disc that were closer to the sun were hotter, so only materials with high melting points like metals and rocky minerals could stay solid. These solids clumped...