Scientists from CERN's Large Hadron Collider observed a real-life transmutation of lead into gold through a new mechanism involving near-miss interactions between atomic nuclei. But each of these gold particles is the size of a nucleus, and lasted barely…

On May 28, China launched its first-ever space mission to retrieve pristine samples from an asteroid called 469219 Kamo‘oalewa, which orbits the Sun at a distance relatively close to Earth. If China succeeds in this mission, it will join a small pool of only…

An international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has claimed to have achieved a breakthrough by using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time to discover a super-Earth. The exoplanet…

Initial analysis indicates that a potential failure of the pressurised tank known as a COPV, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel, containing gaseous nitrogen in Starship’s nosecone area, might have led to the SpaceX Starship to explode. During a static…

Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and the Imperial College have started working on a project by Wellcome Trust, the world’s largest medical charity, which has donated 10 million pounds, equivalent to nearly Rs 117 crore, to create the human DNA from scratch.…

Bille, the name given to the new monostable tetrahedron developed by Professor Gábor Domokos from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and architectural student Gergő Almádi, is mostly hollow and has a carefully calibrated centre of mass.…

A new study published on 10 July in the peer-reviewed journal Science suggests that humans, along with their sledge dogs, probably arrived in the region around 1,000 years ago—centuries earlier than previously thought.
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Researchers from the UK have announced the successful birth of eight babies after a rare IVF procedure designed to prevent inherited mitochondrial diseases and conditions, including seizures, blindness and even death.
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Scientists have recorded two black holes weighing in at approximately 140 times and 100 times the mass of our Sun merge, in what is being dubbed as the biggest black hole merger to ever be recorded. When they collided, the result was a behemoth, a 225‑solar‑mass…

A team from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry in China found that one of the biggest sources of energy in the depths of Earth comes from the movement of its crust. Whenever there is an earthquake or when a rock shifts and cracks under pressure, water trapped…

The project, which has an initial funding of Rs 32 lakh, will be executed jointly by researchers at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology in Prayagraj, IIIT Gwalior, and the Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh. The team has three years to deliver…

Russia's Bion-M No 2 is a unique biosatellite which aims to examine how life responds to space. After about 30 days, the biosatellite will return to Earth, parachuting down in Kazakhstan. Some of the animals will be studied immediately to see how their organs…

At the University of California, San Francisco, researchers have identified a single protein, called FTL1 or ferritin light chain 1, in the brain that could unlock the ability not just to slow down memory decline, but actually turn the clock backwards.
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Scientists have cracked the genetic code to make crops like rice, sorghum and maize produce clonal seeds that never lose their hybrid vigour. The 'sexless seeds' innovation could mean cheaper seeds, more food security and freedom for small farmers across…

NASA's Perseverance rover found "leopard spots" last year at the bottom of a canyon carved out by the river in an area called the Bright Angel Formation. They are about 3.5 billion years old and are a type of rock called mudstone, which is a fine-grained…

The idea for a 'neutrino laser' is to take radioactive atoms, which naturally emit neutrinos when they decay, trap them, and cool them down to unimaginably low temperatures, even colder than outer space, until they form what’s called a Bose–Einstein condensate.…

For over 100 years, physicists argued over how much momentum light carries in materials like glass or water, popularly known in the Physics world as the Abraham-Minkowski debate. Now, a new study shows the missing piece—spin. By projecting momentum onto light’s…

Scientists in the United States have managed to create early-stage human embryos, not from sperm and egg, but from skin cells. It is a discovery that could not only reshape fertility treatment by helping people who cannot conceive naturally, but also spark…

Scientists from Japan's Nagoya University have shown how weak magnetic fields can instantly reverse the direction of current flow in kagome metals by switching tiny internal loop currents. This breakthrough reveals the mechanism behind a puzzling quantum…