Deep under the pine forests of southwest Finland, the rock arrives first before anything else. It is old in a way that makes human construction feel temporary, shaped by geological time rather than anything built at the surface. According to PBS, the underground facility known as the Onkalo nuclear repository lies near Eurajoki, where nothing…
The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons, and for decades scientists have assumed that these cells are the primary drivers of memory and cognition. However, a new study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggests that another type of brain cell, long considered little more than support tissue, may play a…
Whenever you spot a rainbow stretching across the sky after a monsoon shower, you think you’re seeing the same arc of colours as everyone around you. But here’s what science reveals: that rainbow is yours alone. Every person viewing what appears to be the same rainbow is actually seeing a completely different one, formed by…
In a cold store in northern Italy, Ötzi the Iceman lies behind controlled glass and steel, kept at a steady chill that mimics the glacier that once sealed him away. He has been there since 1991, when hikers stumbled upon what appeared to be a recent body lodged in the melting ice of the Ötztal…
For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations, a skill as fundamental as reading the dots and dashes of Morse code. But researchers at Queen Mary University of London have turned that assumption on its head, proving that buff-tailed bumblebees can do…
It is not often that a handful of pale yellow fragments lying quietly in desert sand end up pulling scientists back into questions about ancient catastrophe and planetary violence. Libyan Desert Glass has been sitting in museum drawers and scattered across remote stretches of North Africa for decades, sometimes even cut into jewellery that once…
PC: YouTube (SLAC from the Sky – Extended Version) On a patch of California land that looks, at first glance, like a low industrial sprawl, a single straight building runs for miles without changing direction. It doesn’t rise into the sky, it doesn’t curve into architectural showmanship, and it doesn’t really behave like a place…
Ashlee Holmes and Tarsem Singh (Source: ICE) The mother of a pregnant teenager who died in a devastating car crash in Ohio has said she wants ICE to deport the Indian national charged over the incident, adding that she does not want him to remain in the US.Tarsem Singh, 33, faces multiple felony charges, including…
A deep internal rift has surfaced within Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a group of lawmakers expressing dissatisfaction over what they described as a ‘lack of effort’ by the party leadership to secure the release of jailed founder and former prime minister Imran Khan.The disgruntled members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs), many of…
A dual US-Iranian citizen and chief executive of a Tehran-based technology company was arrested in the United States on federal charges relating to an alleged ten-year scheme to unlawfully export American-origin networking and encryption hardware to Iran’s nuclear and military sectors, in violation of sanctions regulations.According to ANI, the defendant, Jamshid Ghomi, 63, a resident…