Physical Science

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding deterioration of Nayar river, Uttarakhand, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …

Mars to be biggest, brightest on Friday

Skygazers can observe planet Mars at its biggest and brightest best on the midnight of January 29. The

What was that? Mystery object whizzes past Earth

Washington: A mystery object from space whizzed close by Earth on Wednesday. It didn

Preparations on to study effects of annular solar eclipse

T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: Preparations are under way on a

Russia to knock out Earth-bound asteroid?

Moscow: Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country

Russia spacecraft to knock out asteroid, save earth

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Russian space agency will invite Nasa, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project once it is finalised ussia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with earth, …

Fog discovered on Saturn moon

US scientists have discovered fog moving across the south pole of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Titan looks to be the only place in the solar system aside from Earth to have copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) on its surface. The new discovery suggests that Earth and …

Deep down a mine shaft, hint of dark matter

An international team of physicists working in the bottom of an old iron mine in Minnesota said on Thursday that they might have registered the first faint hints of a ghostly sea of subatomic particles known as dark matter long thought to permeate the cosmos. The particles showed as two …

Just 42 light yrs away, theres a super Earth

Paris: Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published in the science journal Nature. The so-called

Super Earths found orbiting Sun-like stars

Washington: An international team of scientists has found the first

Updated hubble reveals most distant galaxies

Using the recently updated Hubble Space Telescope (HST), two teams of UK astronomers have identified galaxies which are likely to be the most distant yet seen. The UK teams, one led by Andrew Bunker and Stephen Wilkins at the University of Oxford and the other by Ross McLure and Jim …

Bang on: success for collider as first atom is smashed

Geneva: Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world

Dino-killing meteorite crashed off Indias coast

Washington: A meteorite more than 40 kms wide and hurtling towards Earth at 58,000 miles per hour that killed dinosaurs 65 million years ago had actually crash-landed off India

The moon belongs to no one yet

No law governs the ownership of lunar territory. Will we see the same scramble for territory that carved up Antarctica, asks William Cullerne Brown.

Will colliders future sabotage its present?

Nature Is Already Turning Against Cern Project: Physicists Dennis Overbye More than a year after it was shut down, the world

City scientists ready for Big Bang experiment restart

KOLKATA: Thirteen months after it had been called off following a technical fault, the world's most ambitious scientific experiment is set to resume. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland, that seeks to simulate the Big Bang, will roll again in November. Around 20 Kolkata scientists from the Saha …

Communication pioneers win Nobel Prize for physics

A pioneer in fibre optics and two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic signals

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