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Simulations by researchers of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and their collaborators show that strong internal magnetic fields could allow some white dwarfs to grow to substantially higher masses than determined by the Chandrasekhar limit. When a dying star runs out of fuel and sheds its outer layers, its remaining core can become an approximately...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, have developed a chemical compound that releases hydrogen and methane when heated moderately. Per the team, the work is a step towards new, better methods to store and transport these fuel gases. The findings were published in Science Advances on October 7. Both in...

The decision was expected to take ​minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet. Such assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have ‌informed every...

For hundreds of years, science has operated with a social contract: science develops knowledge that improves the human condition and expands the range of what is possible while society provides public funds, infrastructure, and institutional support. Sustained investments in research have paid dividends to society, in the form of inventions and discoveries, new technologies, and...

Unusual rains of 2024 could be earth’s new normal The year 2024 experienced a record-breaking number of heavy and extreme rainfall events worldwide, a new study has confirmed. But unlike previous strong El Niño years, 2024 also featured unusual simultaneous warming across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans that, together with a warmer atmosphere, brought extreme...

The Indo-French satellite TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) will be launched in the next 12-16 months, said Jasvinder Singh Khoral, Director (Projects), U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), on Sunday (October 11, 2026). He said this was the third satellite that India and France are developing after Megha-Tropiques and SARAL (Satellite...

STORY SO FAR: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for showing that it is possible to amplify a molecule’s “handedness,” and direct it in a way that it can be used to produce pharmaceutical products of a very high purity. Their work also offers clues to...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) It produces five times the greenhouse gas emissions than does the aviation sector and it releases methane that accounts for no less than 10 per cent of all global greenhouse gases. The...

American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the computer system used by NASA’s Apollo lunar programme, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said Wednesday. In a statement, the Massachussetts Institute of Technology called Hamilton, who taught at the prestigious university from 1959 to the mid-1970s, a “computing pioneer” and...

Winning a Nobel Prize is a matter of great prestige. Winning a Nobel Prize also means the award going to a small number of people while a large number are left out, even if they really deserved to win. This is partly because of the prizes’ rules. Alfred Nobel’s will said nothing about the number...