For decades, light and temperature have been regarded as the environmental signals that keep insects aligned with the passing day. Sunrise, sunset and shifting warmth have long been treated as the main forces that help regulate when animals move, feed or rest. Humidity, although it changes just as regularly in many places, has attracted far…
Every year, thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles appear along Odisha‘s shoreline after spending much of their lives travelling across the Indian Ocean. Their arrival is so regular that it has long raised the same question: do they return to the same stretch of coast after disappearing for decades, scientists have been trying to answer…
Two students can walk into the exact same lesson and come away with completely different levels of understanding. One works with equipment that already does everything correctly, gets a clean result, and moves on without ever really knowing why it worked. The other builds something rough and unreliable, watches it fail in three different ways,…
The last place most people would expect to find a thriving marine ecosystem is beneath an abandoned offshore oil rig. Built to drill for crude oil and often criticised for their environmental impact, these massive steel structures are now supporting colourful corals, schools of fish, sea turtles and even sharks in several parts of the…
Anyone who has watched a large, heavy-bodied bee moving slowly from flower to flower on a hot day has seen an insect working far harder than it looks. New research suggests these bigger bees are now facing a growing threat tied directly to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. As CO2 from burning petrol,…
July 2026 is set to bring one of the year’s most recognisable full moons, with the Buck Moon lighting up the night sky. The Buck Moon 2026 is going to reach its brightest phase on July 29, offering skywatchers around the world a chance to witness a brilliant lunar display. Though the full moon phase…
When planning to shift to the Moon, where would humans live? Prior to the move, one would have to carry all the cement, water and building materials from Earth and build homes first. The entire idea seems practically impossible and this is why a recent study has provided an interesting alternative to all this hard…
When Solar Impulse 2 returned to Abu Dhabi in July 2016, it completed something that had never been achieved before. The aircraft had travelled around the world powered only by energy collected from the sun, finishing a journey of roughly 40,000 kilometres without using conventional fuel. It was not built to prove that commercial airliners…
Most asteroids drifting through our solar system are made of rock or ice, but one stands out as strikingly different. Known as Psyche, or 16 Psyche, this metal-rich asteroid orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, and scientists believe it could actually be the exposed core of a small planet that broke apart billions of…
A surprising new scientific study has revealed that the heart has a small network of neurons capable of controlling essential bodily functions. The research conducted at Yale University in US, was published in July 2026 in the scientific journal Cell. It revealed that this nervous system participates in regulating heartbeats and also protects the organ…
