With the weekend gearing up, your favorite OTT platforms are ready with a new set of releases for the week. From comedy talk shows to gripping thrillers and spine-chilling crime sequences, this week promises to be packed with high entertainment. Some of the top releases for the week include Detective Sherdill, Ground Zero, The Great…
Vivo Y400 Pro 5G is set to be launched in India today (June 20). The handset is expected to arrive as a direct successor to the Vivo Y200 Pro 5G which was introduced in March 2024. Through various teasers, the company has revealed some details about the handset, including its design, colour options, and camera…
A NASA team specialising in in-flight imagery plans to capture detailed visuals and temperature data of a commercial capsule’s return from space later this month. The capsule, named Mission Possible, is part of a European demonstration led by The Exploration Company. NASA’s SCIFLI (Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery) team will gather data in real time by using…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently begun a new chapter in its journey on Mars after entering the “Uyuni” quadrangle, a 1.5 km by 1.5 km map grid with a name after the Bolivian town near the world’s largest salt flats. The transition follows after the rover carried out an approximately 48-metre drive from the Altadena drill site….
A jet-powered human robot has taken to the skies, and this time it’s managing to stay in the air and even move around mid-flight, thanks to some nifty AI and heavy integration. The iRonCub3, developed by the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), managed to fly in the air at 50 cm off the ground during testing –…
When Vance Holliday accepted a research invite to New Mexico’s White Sands in 2012, he didn’t know he was stepping near what would become one of the most pivotal archaeological sites in the Americas. While examining trenches on the U.S. Army missile range, he had stood just 100 yards away from ancient human footprints buried beneath…
When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface covered in gleaming orange glass beads. Tiny grains, about as small as a pencil tip, are left over from giant volcanic eruptions more than 3.5 billion years ago. Those raindrop-shaped beads were made from molten droplets that…
Astronomers have at last found the universe’s missing ordinary matter, the particles that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang and that account for everything we see around us, from the Earth to the stars. Some fast radio bursts (FRBs), vanishingly fast, hugely energetic signals from deep space, have allowed scientists to…
Over 5,000 years ago, an Egyptian weaver, maker of the so-called Tarkhan Dress, created the world’s oldest woven and tailored garment. The linen dress was found in a tomb near Tarkhan, some 60 kilometres south of Cairo, and was made between 3482 and 3102 B.C., a time span that falls before Egypt’s First Dynasty. Originally found by…
In a revolutionary move that is bound to “transform solar observing”, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 has already imaged the first artificial solar eclipse in space after two of the satellites launched as a pair of spacecraft on an Indian PSLV-XL launch rocket in December 2024 were manoeuvred as a pair and made their inaugural…