Dawn of artificial mummification pushed back 5,000 years
Examples of Early and Middle Holocene human burials from southern China. This figure shows six human burials from Huiyaotian in Nanning and Liyupo in Long’an, both shell-midden sites located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. | Photo Credit: PNAS 122 (38) e2515103122 Archaeologists working in southeast Asia have long been puzzled by pre-farming burials dating […]
7 Indian Grandmas Who Turned Cooking Passion into Successful Food Businesses
The interviews and reporting for this story were conducted in July 2024. It wouldn’t be a stretch to call food the lingua franca of grandmothers across the world. Their delicious concoctions are a quick fix to life’s curveballs. Feeling unwell? Grandmas have just the right prescription; a warm bowl of soup. Had your heart broken? […]
Why do our brains fall for optical illusions?
A Kanizsa triangle. | Photo Credit: Fibonacci (CC BY-SA) A: Our brains fall for optical illusions because of the ways in which they perceive the world, including using contextual information, shortcuts, and predictions. Among other patterns, the brain assumes light comes from above, fills missing edges, and exaggerates contrasts. While these tricks help us navigate […]
10 Legends Who Changed India’s Story: Rare Photos That Capture Their Legacy
Source link
Bending ice could explain how lightning is born in thunderstorms
Ice is almost everywhere on the earth — in glaciers, snow, and clouds. Despite being so common, it still hides mysteries about its physical properties. A long-standing puzzle concerns its electrical behaviour. Every water molecule is polar, meaning it has a positive and a negative end. But when water freezes into ordinary hexagonal ice (known […]
Bihar Government to Reward Top Tech Students with Laptops Under New Initiative, ETEducation
“>He was addressing a gathering of students and their parents at an event, organised to award the toppers with “Medhavi Chhatra Protsahan Puraskar 2025”, given to students securing top three positions at state-level in five streams. Patna: State’s science, technology and technical education minister, Sumit Kumar Singh, on Monday announced that students securing top three […]
How Dr Jogesh Choudhary is Growing a Sandalwood Forest in Rajasthan’s Desert
In 2017, while on a casual trip to Bellary in Karnataka, Dr Jogesh Choudhary found himself walking through vast stretches of sandalwood plantations. The air carried a faint woody fragrance, and the sight of thousands of trees left him wide-eyed. It reminded him of childhood tales, of sandalwood’s allure, the smuggling stories, and its rarity. […]
Ozone layer on track to return to 1980s levels by mid-century, says WMO report
NEW DELHI: The Earth’s protective ozone layer is on track to return to 1980s levels by the middle of this century, with the 2024 Antarctic ozone hole smaller than in recent years, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in a new report. The WMO Ozone Bulletin 2024 said lower ozone depletion this year was partly […]
Science for All | Quest to crack blues mystery in Pollock painting reveals colour-tuning technique
While pigments interact with light and their surroundings to produce specific colours, the hex triplet #1099D6 (shown) approximates what manganese blue might have looked like. | Photo Credit: Google Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A, 1948 is one of the most famous examples of action painting, where paint is dripped, splashed, and layered onto a surface. While […]
As the lights stay on, birds are staying up past their bedtime
These days, an inky, sightless night is a rare sight in much of the world. From the harsh glare of streetlamps that make us squint to the gaudy flicker of neon billboards that force sunglass shields, artificial light is blurring the line between day and night. This has meant birds stay active for almost an […]