PC: University of Waterloo In this world, plastic is the most stubborn waste. Normally, the plastic waste gets disposed of via municipal collection, which leads to open-pit burning or dumping in local waterways. However, no one must have imagined that plastic waste can even be turned into vinegar (acetic acid). Remarkably, this is now a…
Ever wondered how those weird, floating “snowmen” way out in the deep freeze of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit manage to stick around? These oddly shaped, double-lobed rocks called contact binaries, like the famous Arrokoth look fragile, yet they’ve survived billions of years without crumbling apart. Astronomers have been searching for an answer for…
Credit: NationalGeographic Most of the research conducted around rising oceans might have misjudged the rising coastal hazards by an approximate of 20 to 30 centimetres. Out of 385 expert-reviewed studies published between 2009 and 2025, around 99 percent incorrectly estimated ocean height. Researchers suggest this might have caused a lag of almost a hundred years…
What is the most important step that humanity must take to avoid extinction? According to the late physicist Stephen Hawking, the answer lies far beyond Earth. One of his most striking warnings concerned the future of human civilisation. Hawking, in his lecture at NASA’s 50th Anniversary, addressed how the human race can’t survive on Earth…
Shubhanshu Shukla reveals how astronauts stay fresh in space (Image source: Wikipedia) Shubhanshu Shukla in his recent X post, continuing the series following his insights on his journey in space, describes what follows astronauts getting ready in the International Space Station (ISS). Shukla is the first Indian to visit the ISS and only the second…
Every spring, millions of people lose an hour of sleep for a reason that has nothing to do with late nights or early alarms. The clocks simply move forward. Daylight saving time returns this weekend across much of North America, bringing the familiar seasonal shift. Many people barely notice it because their phones and computers…
Disneyland Paris has quietly turned one of its most ordinary spaces, a vast visitor parking lot, into one of Europe’s most ambitious renewable energy installations. Covering 11,200 parking spaces with more than 82,000 solar panels, the resort has built the largest solar canopy over a parking lot in Europe, capable of producing 36 gigawatt-hours (GWh)…
The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about life. Scientists have long believed that complex animals such as humans evolved through a gradual process that shaped our bodies over hundreds of millions of years. Yet the exact moment when the blueprint for building a human-like…
When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, the event sounded like something out of a science fiction film. The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART, was designed to answer a serious question: could humanity push an asteroid off course if one ever threatened Earth? At the time, scientists…
In films like The Matrix and Ex Machina, the boundary between biological intelligence and machines dissolves. Human minds are wired into computers, artificial beings develop awareness, and the line between life and technology becomes increasingly blurred. For decades, such ideas belonged firmly to science fiction.Now, a laboratory experiment is forcing scientists to confront a far…
