ISS crew may be able to view partial phase of August 12 total solar eclipse

BENGALURU: Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, inaugurated the ‘White Rabbit Technology’-based ‘Indian Standard Time (IST) Distribution Demonstration Network’ on Thursday at the Regional Reference Standards Laboratory SL in Jakkur. The minister said that this initiative, implemented under the ‘One Nation, One Time,’ vision is…

Trees do not necessarily keep growing for as long as they keep photosynthesizing, according to a new study published in Science Advances. Researchers found that oak trees continue absorbing carbon dioxide well after their annual growth has ended, suggesting forests may store less carbon in wood than many climate models currently predict. The discovery challenges…

"The climate crisis,” he writes in his book-length 2016 essay, The Great Derangement, “is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” Across his many novels and nonfiction books, Ghosh has been attempting to correct this shortcoming. He has become a leading theorist of the relationship between global climate change and culture, arguing…

When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S. Constitution, but rather on a tome revered by space enthusiasts everywhere: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The book, published in 1994, is named…

A tiny spider with a bright red smile on its back has surprised scientists by turning up thousands of miles from where they thought its famous relatives lived. For more than 100 years, the Happy Face spider was believed to exist only in Hawaii, making it one of the world’s most recognizable and unusual arachnids….

Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates tiny sound-like particles called phonons at temperatures just above absolute zero. The advance could help pave the way for phonon lasers, a technology with potential uses in communications, medical diagnostics, and advanced sensing. “Modern communication is largely based on light, including electromagnetic waves…