Tag: Science

Indians typically have black hair, with grey appearing as a natural part of ageing. But red hair? The colour more commonly associated with Europeans has now been identified in a rare case in India, intriguing scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad. Their study was prompted by a striking case...

You’re cooking dinner, distracted, and your hand brushes a hot pan. Nerve signals race to your spinal cord and back to yank your arm away in a fraction of a second, with no thought required. Then comes the pain. A sharp, spreading sting gives way to a pulsing ache, and you cradle your hand and...

The US Government has released a new trove of documents on various cases of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAPs) – many of which would have been described in the past as Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs – including photos, videos and reports of unexplained events sighted in the sky and in space. The files detail “unresolved...

 A rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded during a test at the launch pad on Thursday (May 28, 2026) night, shaking nearby homes and briefly painting the sky orange. Blue Origin said its New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test being conducted ahead of a satellite launch planned for next week. No...

May was a blockbuster month for Indian space startups as they made a significant impression not just in India but also globally.  Bengaluru based space startup GalaxEye successfully launched Mission Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite aboard a Falcon 9 by SpaceX from Vandenberg, California. India’s largest privately developed earth observation satellite, Mission Drishti, is...

SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week’s test flight. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) that the hour-long spaceflight resulted in a mishap based on the performance of the mega rocket’s first-stage booster. Minutes after Starship blasted off from Texas on May 22, the booster...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday (May 26,2026), awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four...

Nearly six years after it was launched, India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 continues to provide valuable data on the satellite. In a new finding, scientists have found the possible presence of subsurface ice in lunar south polar regions. These were the findings of scientists from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) who used observations from the Chandrayaan-2’s...

Aerosols in the air reduced the amount of solar power generated in India by 9.6% in 2023, equivalent to around 15 terawatt-hours (TWh), according to a new analysis published in Nature Sustainability. The same study reported that the global average loss due to the same cause in 2023 was 5.8%. Between 2017 and 2023, pollution-related...