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‘Unacceptable’: Justin Langer slams two-day Tests after Australia rout Bangladesh | Cricket News

Australia beat Bangladesh in two days. (Pic credit: CA) Former Australia opener Justin Langer has slammed the increasing frequency of Test matches ending inside two days, calling the trend “unacceptable” after Australia wrapped up an innings-and-51-run victory over Bangladesh in Mackay on Sunday.Australia needed only 750 balls to complete the second Test, bouncing back from…

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Indian Space Programme: From Thumba to tomorrow: Indian space programme is preparing for its biggest leap yet

Indian space programme (representative image) BENGALURU: August 23, 2023, gave India an image it had waited decades to see: a spacecraft settling on the Moon, its lander and rover beginning work near the lunar south polar region. But the significance of Chandrayaan-3 was perhaps easier to understand if one looked backwards.Six decades earlier, India was…

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In 2021, scientists tested 20 bonnethead sharks and found they use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, suggesting sharks may have a magnetic map |

Twenty bonnethead sharks were given an unusual test at a Florida State University laboratory in 2021: could they tell where they were by reading Earth’s magnetic field? The young sharks, caught in the Gulf of Mexico, were placed in a tank where scientists recreated the magnetic conditions of different locations hundreds of kilometres away. When…

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Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly ‘unhappy’ with his former boss Sergey Brin; reason is how a $100 million was spent on …

Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt is reportedly unhappy with founder Sergey Brin over how more than $100 million in political contributions is being used in California. The two technology billionaires are backing efforts to defeat Proposition 40, a proposed one-time wealth tax on California residents worth more than $100 million. However, a report says Schmidt…

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Meet John Liu, the student who used corn stalks and wheat straw to recover lithium from dilute water |

Image: @JJYAj/YouTube/AI Regenerated Lithium is a crucial ingredient in rechargeable batteries, but recovering it from dilute sources can be difficult and energy-intensive. John Liu, a high school student from St. Paul, Minnesota, approached that problem by looking at materials that are usually left behind after harvest: corn stalks and wheat straw. His project, titled ‘Passive…

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Delhi cops attacked with chilli powder, bricks and sticks in Mukundpur; 3 injured | Delhi News

A 17-year-old juvenile was apprehended after a group allegedly attacked three policemen, NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old juvenile was apprehended after a group allegedly attacked three policemen with bricks and sticks and threw chilli powder into their eyes while they were performing patrolling duty in northwest Delhi’s Mukundpur area on Saturday, police said. One of the…

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