Discoveries, experiments, and how the world works.
A spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts just clicked into place 400 kilometers above Earth, kicking off an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station.
Pour honey fast enough and you'd expect a splash, not a snap—yet physicists just watched a plain, springless fluid crack apart like glass, breaking a rule scientists trusted for decades.
2 min read · 2026-07-12
A rock rolls downhill only because gravity pulls it, but a sunflower turns to face the sun as if it wants the light. Biologists are arguing over whether living things really do set their own goals, or whether that's just a convenient way of talking.
2 min read · 2026-07-09
Imagine your pocket money growing eighteen times bigger in a single year. That is roughly what happened to Samsung's profits, powered by the world's hunger for AI chips.
2 min read · 2026-07-07
A thin wafer of silicon no bigger than your palm can power a home — and India is now one of the world's biggest builders of the machines that do exactly that. Here is how photovoltaic solar cells work and why India's solar ambition is changing the country's energy story.
3 min read · 2026-07-04