Tag: Science

The BRICS Heads of Space Agencies (HOSA) 2026 meet is being hosted in Bengaluru. India, as Chair of BRICS for 2026, is hosting HOSA on June 23 and 24. Heads and senior representatives of the space agencies of the 11 BRICS member countries — Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South...

The story so far: An explosion at the Barzan gas facility in Ras Laffan, Qatar, claimed the lives of 12 Indian workers and one Pakistani worker on June 21. While local authorities have just begun their investigation, QatarEnergy, the country’s national energy company that maintains the gas facility, said the blast occurred when workers were...

The world is constantly looking for faster and more efficient computers. Since the technologies of today have nearly maximised the use of electric currents for this purpose, scientists are looking beyond. One critical area that may fit our needs is called strain engineering: it uses mechanical pressure at the atomic level to alter a material’s...

A number of activities are underway in the global scholarly publishing policy space. Within a span of 18 months, from late 2024 to mid-2026: the United States has placed the economics of academic publishing under Congressional scrutiny, Australia has mandated immediate open access to all publicly funded peer reviewed research, Europe has launched a publicly...

Thanks to the initiatives of UNESCO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), most countries across the world have adopted ‘green’ solutions that reduce environmental carbon dioxide. The use of solar panels to capture sunlight and turn it into electricity has been a particularly successful strategy. Many countries across the world have...

In the memorandum of understanding signed by the U.S. and Iran to end the war, Tehran has pledged never to develop a nuclear bomb in return for U.S. sanctions relief and access to a $300 billion development fund. Beyond that commitment, the MoU offers few details on how the U.S. and Iran intend to solve...

New seismic hazard spotted in Japan’s 2011 quake Following the 2011 earthquake, 15 minutes after the main shock, the ground across Japan shifted east by up to 6 mm. Using satellite data, scientists have now found this movement was triggered by ScS waves, seismic waves that travel down from the earthquake source, bounce off the...

The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed this month that an El Niño has formed in the equatorial Pacific, and placed the odds at about 63% that it will strengthen into a “very strong” — colloquially, a “super” — event by the northern winter. India’s June rainfall, until 16th June, is roughly...