This $1.16 billion hole in the ground is humanity's best plan for nuclear waste, and it's opening in the world's happiest country - here's what you need to knowFinland nuclear waste repository: Finland is poised to open Onkalo, the world's first permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. T...
02 Jun, 2026, 10.37 PM IST
This underwater fault near Ecuador has baffled scientists for decades. They just cracked itScientists have identified natural "brakes" within the Gofar transform fault, located deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean. These "barrie...
17 May, 2026, 01.09 AM IST
Giant new dinosaur species unearthed in Brazil after 120 million yearsConstruction workers in Davinopolis, Brazil, discovered the fossilized bones of a giant dinosaur. Named Dasosaurus tocantinensis, the creat...
12 May, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
Geologists Find Strange Stone Tunnels That Could Point to a Never-Before-Seen Lifeform on EarthScientists found tiny, organized tunnels within desert rocks. These formations are unlike natural geological processes. Chemical traces sug...
25 Apr, 2026, 04.17 PM IST
After ‘Flying Dinosaur’, India’s first 20-crore-year-old Phytosaur fossil unearthed in JaisalmerResearchers in Jaisalmer have unearthed India's first phytosaur fossil, a crocodile-like reptile from the Jurassic period, dating back near...
25 Aug, 2025, 07.05 PM IST
Experts puzzled: North Pole is moving towards Russia at the rate of 15 miles a year; here's how it could affect your smartphonesScientists are puzzled as the North Pole continues its drift towards Russia, a shift that could potentially disrupt smartphone functionalit...
19 Nov, 2024, 02.34 PM IST
Volcanic eruptions behind lethal climate change millions of years ago: StudyMassive volcanic eruptions over the past 260 million years caused climate changes and mass extinction events, according to a study publishe...
11 Oct, 2023, 02.17 PM IST
Storing hydrogen in coal may help power clean energy economy: StudyHowever, much work remains to build a hydrogen infrastructure and make it an affordable and reliable energy source, they said. This include...
26 May, 2023, 06.39 PM IST
Himalayas poised for a series of big earthquakes, says studyThe study notes that the sequence of future Himalayan earthquakes could be similar to the great earthquakes that occurred in the twentieth ...
23 Oct, 2020, 09.41 AM IST
Indian and Russian scientists make pathbreaking discovery in mining industryAbout 95 million years ago, there was a shallow warm sea at the territory of the Bakchar ironstone deposit (in the Tomsk oblast, Russia).
24 Dec, 2018, 05.07 PM IST
- Ancient life forms that survived without oxygen found
New York, Nov 30 (IANS) Researchers have discovered fossils of 2.5 billion-year-old sulfur-oxidising bacteria that existed just fine withou...
30 Nov, 2016, 03.25 PM IST
New technique may help detect life on MarsVisits to Mars by unmanned probes from NASA and the European Space Agency have found evidence that a prime condition for life once may have...
17 May, 2015, 04.25 PM IST
More high-intensity earthquakes likely in region: ExpertsA L Ramanathan from JNU, says the Indian plate has been active and release of energy in the form of earthquakes is likely to continue over ...
13 May, 2015, 11.18 AM IST
North Bengal earthquake triggers fears of a Nepal reduxMonday's earthquake was generated by a movement of the Indian tectonic plate. It could be felt as far away as Malda, where, too, people wer...
28 Apr, 2015, 11.55 AM IST
Nearest earthquake zone just 100 km from Bengaluru: StudyThe last time Bengaluru suffered an earthquake was on January 29, 2001, whose magnitude was 4.3 on the Richter scale.
27 Apr, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
Earth's inner core has its own inner coreThe team used a technology that gathers data not from the initial shock of an earthquake, but from the waves that resonate in the earthquak...
10 Feb, 2015, 01.15 PM IST
Mumbai is at risk of earthquake, ex-IIT professor warns against high risesV Subramanyan said Mumbai's neighbouring regions have experienced tremors that show a pattern of movement towards the city.
07 Jan, 2015, 11.45 AM IST