Thousands of coins removed from the Giant’s Causeway to protect basalt pillars; 10,000 coins wedged by tourists over the years extractedMore than 10,000 coins that tourists wedged into the basalt rocks of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway have been removed as part of a con...
25 Aug, 2026, 03.08 PM IST
Tata Steel gets interim relief in Rs 1,755 crore Jharkhand coal mining demand caseTata Steel received interim relief from a Rs 1,755 crore demand by Jharkhand. The Ministry of Coal's Revisional Authority will consider the...
25 Aug, 2026, 01.49 PM IST
In 2017, USGS and MIT researchers dated a magma pulse to 251.9 million years ago. 9 years later, it links to Earth's worst extinctionEarth faced its worst extinction event around 252 million years ago. Volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps is the leading explanation for...
25 Aug, 2026, 12.05 AM IST
In 1923, a geologist said a sudden, catastrophic Ice Age flood carved Washington's landscape. Scientists rejected him for decades. At 96, he received geology's highest honorJ. Harlen Bretz, a pioneering geologist, introduced a groundbreaking theory about the Ice Age floods sculpting eastern Washington's terrain...
24 Aug, 2026, 10.26 PM IST
Bitcoin surges 22% in a week, climbs to nearly $78K as US Treasury bond-buying plan boosts sentimentBitcoin surged nearly 22% over the past week, trading near $78,000 on Monday, as the US Treasury’s bond-buying plan boosted market sentimen...
24 Aug, 2026, 03.38 PM IST
CoinDCX expands SIP offering with daily investments and XIRR tracking from Rs 100CoinDCX has introduced Daily SIP, enabling investors to start crypto investments for as little as Rs 100. This innovative feature promotes ...
24 Aug, 2026, 12.34 PM IST
Shenaz Treasury recently squeezed ‘shampoo with zero chemicals’ from a flower. Experts reveal truth about ‘nature’s shampoo’: ‘It can work as a conditioner, but…’Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasury was recently seen gushing over ‘nature’s shampoo', which you can just squeeze directly from a flower and ...
23 Aug, 2026, 11.10 PM IST
Gold regains momentum as weak dollar, safe haven demand and seasonal buying support pricesGold prices have surged sharply in August, supported by a weaker U.S. dollar, expectations of monetary easing, geopolitical tensions, and s...
22 Aug, 2026, 09.51 AM IST
Wall Street Week Ahead: Nvidia earnings, Jackson Hole to test pillars of stock rallyNvidia's upcoming earnings report, alongside the Fed's crucial Jackson Hole symposium, may redefine current market expectations. The recent...
22 Aug, 2026, 09.34 AM IST
In US, rare earths extracted from coal mine wastewaterWest Virginia University researchers are extracting valuable rare earth elements from acidic mine drainage. This process cleans up environm...
22 Aug, 2026, 08.09 AM IST
In a 2026 study, scientists found enough lithium and magnesium in just 0.1% of the ocean to last 50,000 years. Now, an Olympic pool of seawater exposes the huge gap between abundance and accessibilityScientists are exploring the ocean as a potential source of critical minerals needed for batteries, electronics, vehicles, and clean-energy...
21 Aug, 2026, 11.31 PM IST
A 440-year-old coin was found under a church. It helped solve the mystery of a colony that vanishedArchaeologists found a 1584 silver coin at a failed Spanish colony in Chile. This founding coin was placed exactly where historical records...
21 Aug, 2026, 03.48 PM IST
Bitcoin jumps 11% to $71K, hits 2-month high; $190 billion added to crypto market cap after Trump’s crypto pushBitcoin surged 11% to a two-month high above $71,000, adding nearly $190 billion to the crypto market capitalisation. The rally followed re...
20 Aug, 2026, 03.26 PM IST
CarePal Group builds proprietary AI “Chief of Staff” to scale execution across crowdfunding, lending & insuranceThe company says multi-stage extraction powered by Claude identifies action items, priorities, decisions and risks. OpenAI embeddings suppo...
19 Aug, 2026, 10.45 AM IST
In 1778, Polly Cooper traveled 186 miles with an Oneida delegation to bring white corn to George Washington's starving troops at Valley Forge. 248 years later, the woman preserved mainly through oral tradition is honored on the 2026 American $1 coinPolly Cooper Native American $1 coin: Polly Cooper, an Oneida woman, is honored on a 2026 dollar coin for her aid. She traveled with warrio...
17 Aug, 2026, 08.49 PM IST
A 2023 study wanted to find out what really happens when you flip a fair coin; after 350,757 tosses, researchers found that it often lands on the same side it startedA massive experiment revealed coin flips favor the starting side slightly. This finding confirmed a physics model's prediction about coin t...
17 Aug, 2026, 11.56 AM IST
In 2024, University of Illinois researchers showed electricity could recover gold from e-waste with fewer chemicals. 2 years later, a redesigned molecule removes the remaining chemical step, making metal recovery cleaner and simplerResearchers developed a new molecule for recovering gold from electronic waste. This molecule uses electricity to drive the separation proc...
15 Aug, 2026, 06.04 PM IST