Name of words: 456 Twenty million years ago Tibet lay at the bottom of the sea. The manner in which it was shaped into its present commanding position in Central Asia has been described as an epic in the long history of the formation of the earth’s crust. Caught between two approaching land masses, the … Read more
Number of words: 624 This mystery was centred on the belief shared by a large slice of humanity that somewhere between China and India there stood a sacred mountain, an Asian Olympus of cosmic proportions. This mountain was said to be the navel of the earth and the axis of the universe, and from its … Read more
Number of words: 500 Earlier in March this year, the 18 Space Control Squadron (18SPCS), a body that detects, tracks, and identifies artificial objects in Earth’s orbit reported that the Chinese satellite, Yunhai 1-02 had broken up in space and it was tracking 21 pieces of the debris. Astronomer Jonathan McDowell recently came across the likely cause … Read more
Number of words: 915 Sea snakes are total nightmare fuel, but new research suggests their frequent “attacks” on scuba divers are in reality botched attempts to get lucky. Many scuba divers who explore tropical coral reefs in Australia and New Guinea are all too familiar with the highly venomous Olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis). These … Read more
Number of words: 757 Titles of research papers usually don’t surprise us, but this one did. It is called Primitive eusociality in a land plant?. The reason for the surprise is that eusociality, so far as we know, is restricted to the animal kingdom. Many animals live in social groups of varying degrees of complexity. The … Read more
Number of words: 487 President Xi Jinping put China’s wealthiest citizens on notice Tuesday, offering an outline for “common prosperity” that includes income regulation and redistribution, according to state media reports. Since Xi took office in 2012, the ruling party has made it a priority to end poverty and build a moderately prosperous society, goals … Read more
Number of words: 728 That a time scale characteristic of the universe at large exists was first suggested by the discoveries of Hubble in the early twenties. There are two parts to Hubble’s discoveries. The first part relates to what may be considered as the fundamental units or constituents of the universe. It emerged unequivocally … Read more
Number of words: 479 You are familiar with Newton’s demonstration of the character of white light by allowing sunlight to pass through a small round hole and letting the pencil of light so isolated fall on the face of a prism. The pencil of light was dispersed by the prism into its constituent rainbow colours. … Read more
Number of words: 688 What the calculation shows is that if you take a star of mass greater than one and a half times the solar mass and if the process of collapse occurs, the process of collapse could not be arrested at a stage with mean densities of the order of million gm/cc. Or, … Read more
Number of words: 790 A black hole is then an object on whose surface the force of gravity is such that even light will not escape from it. But this statement assumes that light is affected by gravity. That light is affected by gravity is a prediction of the general theory of relativity. Indeed, one … Read more
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