Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 05 July 2023

INDIA: Aphelion refers to the point in an object's orbit where it is farthest away from the Sun. In the case of the Earth, it occurs once every year. This phenomenon happens because the Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle but rather an elliptical shape. As …

Grab an amazing opportunity to have your name engraved on a NASA spacecraft heading to Jupiter’s Europa moon as part of the Message in a Bottle project. Here’s how.

Climate and the human brain are constantly changing but is the changing climate responsible for making the human brain shrink?

Our planet's water must have arrived late in the history of Earth's formation.

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With the unveiling of iOS 17 now in the rear window, Apple has been testing its new features as well as squishing all bugs and glitches with beta updates. The latest iOS 17 developer beta 3 update has now been rolled out and it brings several new features to …

RESEARCHERS at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore have identified the cause of an over three million square kilometres-wide ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean. Located just south of Sri Lanka, it is at this location the Earth’s gravitational pul…

Asteroids have been threatening Earth with extremely close approaches recently, and now another one is set to pass the planet today. Know its speed, distance, size, and more.

NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch the seventh crew mission to the International Space Station in August.

Clarivate announced that it has released the 2023 update to its annual�Journal Citation Reports (JCR). This annual release identifies more than 21,500 high-quality academic journals from across 250+ scientific and research disciplines.

When a creature's stress levels decrease because of the presence of a companion, it is known as social buffering. In highly social animals, such as mammals and birds, this phenomenon is well studied. Now, researchers have examined social buffering in rattlesn…

An MIT-led team introduces a new computational method that facilitates the dense placement of objects inside a rigid container.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore have identified the cause of an over three million square kilometres-wide 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean.

On one particular day in 2021, astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the ISS must have felt a pin-prick of fear and uncertainty.

A research group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science have developed a unique material, based on nanofillers embedded in a hydrogel, that can channel mechanical energy in one direction but not the other, acting in a “nonreciproc…

The cutting-edge National Supercomputing Mission facility, Param Seva, installed at IIT-H, played a vital role in enabling these remarkable findings.

Distinct, though neighboring, areas of the brain are activated when processing music and language, with specific sub-regions engaged for simple melodies versus complex melodies, and for simple versus complex sentences, according to research from UTHealth Hous…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed 16th closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, the agency said.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully induced stem cells to mimic the process of human heart development, resulting in a "mini-heart" or organoid. This breakthrough will allow for a deeper understanding of the initial stage…

New discoveries on the Red Planet have raised more questions about what catastrophe could have destroyed Mars' magnetosphere.

The moonboots worn by astronauts on the Artemis missions will need to protect their wearers from difficult terrain and extreme temperatures, but their most memorable role will be the prints they leave behind.

By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.

Researchers has shown that the enormous amount of groundwater being pumped is changing the Earth's tilt and increasing sea level rise.

Scientists they have produced an image of the Milky Way not based on light. Instead, the image is based on subatomic particles called neutrinos.