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The Moon is making your days longer, and most people have no ideaOur planet's days are getting longer. The Moon's gravity slows Earth's spin, a process ongoing for billions of years. Now, melting polar ic...
India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor achieves criticality, marks entry into stage-II nuclear programmeIndia's first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has achieved criticality. This marks a major milestone in the nation's three-stag...
- The celestial orchestra
Scientists have observed magnons, or spin waves, at the nanoscale using new microscopes. This discovery could significantly impact the stud...
Earth is spinning faster and scientists fear a Y2K-like DoomsdayEarth's accelerating spin is causing concern among scientists due to potential disruptions to global timekeeping systems. July 10 marked th...
Earth is rotating faster, say scientists: What it means and should you worry?Earth's rotation is speeding up, causing days to shorten by a fraction of a second since 2020. Scientists predict that a leap second might ...
24 hours days to end? Expert warns accelartion in earth’s speed can give history’s shortest day soonSince 2020, Earth's rotation has sped up, causing shorter days. Astrophysicist Graham Jones predicts the next shortest day is around the co...
Why John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won 2024 Nobel Prize in PhysicsJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work on artificial neural networks. Hopfield devel...
Holy Grail of material science: how did MIT scientists achieve superconductivity? Details hereSuperconductivity is a set of physical properties where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material. ...
Explained: Iran atomic sites targeted by diplomacy and sabotageThe attack Sunday at Natanz comes as world powers try to negotiate a return by Iran and the U.S. to Tehran's atomic accord. The sabotage th...
Every year, government to roll out one Nuclear reactor: DAEA 700-MW pressurised heavy water reactor at Kakrapar nuclear plant in Gujarat is likely to be commissioned by April, Shri Krishna Gupta, a ...
Forty years and counting for this scientist's 'eureka' moment; One who shoots photons everydayA Benguluru-based scientist has been doing a single type of subatomic experiment repeatedly for 40 years. What is he hoping to find out?
New microchip for ingestible 'smart pills' developedThe location of the device can be precisely identified within the body, something that proved challenging with existing devices, researcher...
- Researchers discover 2-D magnet for first time
San Francisco, June 11 (IANS) A team of researchers has for the first time discovered magnetism in the 2-D world of monolayers, or material...
- Researchers push forward quantum computing research
San Francisco, May 21 (IANS) Stanford University electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic and colleagues at her laboratory are work...
NASA plans to create 'coolest spot in universe'CAL's instruments are designed to freeze gas atoms to a mere billionth of a degree above absolute zero - more than 100 million times colder...
Large quantum computers closer to realityUnlike conventional computers that store data on transistors and hard drives, quantum computers encode data in the quantum states of micros...
Scientists develop new method to diagnose malariaThe new method, which uses magnetic fields to detect the parasite's waste products in the blood of infected patients, is fast, reliable and...
Diamonds could lead to faster, more powerful computersResearchers worldwide are working to develop the so-called "spintronics," which could make computers simultaneously faster and more powerfu...
- Soon, super-fast quantum computers could be a reality
Super-fast quantum computers could soon be a reality, as scientists claim to have generated 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement in sili...
- Superatoms may lead to smaller, faster, powerful computers
Computers may soon become faster, smaller and more powerful as scientists said they have discovered magnetic superatoms which can provide a...