Tag: Science

All living beings communicate. In honeybees, communicative signals in the form of a wiggle dance transmit information on the location of flowers. Recipient bees decode this information and use it to guide their behaviour. Human language goes beyond broadcasting: it can be used to intentionally reshape what another person thinks or does by adjusting the...

The story so far: A fire tore through a house in Indore on March 18, killing eight people including two children. An electric vehicle (EV) charging point outside the house appeared to have sparked the blaze. An investigation is underway. Are EV batteries safe? Nearly every EV on the road today runs on lithium-ion batteries,...

Ever since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, the first planet of the solar system — Mercury — has also become its smallest. Mercury might be the smallest planet orbiting the sun, but studying it is no mean feat. In fact, it is quite the opposite, as studying Mercury is quite a challenge.  Did...

The ongoing war in West Asia has plunged the world into a deep energy crisis. In India, the availability of domestic fuel, LPG, has been hit due by the disruption in supplies from the Persian Gulf. The global energy crisis is reminiscent of the Oil Shock of 1973 when members of the Organisation of Petroleum...

Evidence points to the human mind not being a physical object you can touch but a process the brain creates. Scientists generally agree the mind arises from the complex activity of the physical brain. The foundation of the mind consists of approximately 86 billion nerve cells, a.k.a. neurons. These cells form a large and intricate...

In everyday life, cause always comes before effect. A window won’t break before you throw a ball at it. But quantum mechanics has long hinted that this rule can be broken. Physicists from the University of Vienna and the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Photonic Quantum Computer have now taken a big step to proving it...

The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most powerful particle smasher, Europe’s CERN physics laboratory announced on March 17. The new particle has been named “Xi-cc-plus”. Scientists have expressed hope that the particle — which is similar to a proton but 4x heavier — will...

GUWAHATI Researchers from Tezpur University in North-central Assam have found that the subtle vibrations on the sun’s surface could be transporting enormous amounts of energy into its outer atmosphere. The research, conducted by physicists Souvik Das and Pralay Kumar Karmakar from the university’s Department of Physics, examines the dynamics of solar surface waves known as p-mode...