During the Solar System’s first million years, its earliest outer worlds appear to have formed from a carefully filtered mix of material, with heat-forged chondrules making up between 83% and 92% of their composition. In the young disc, aerodynamic sorting separated these rocky grains from fine matrix containing water ice and organic molecules, leaving the…
JASDF Chief of Staff Masahiro Morita and IAF Chief of Air Staff AP Singh at Jodhpur Air Force Base during Ex Veer Guardian. (Image credit: IAF) The successful conclusion of Exercise Veer Guardian 2026 has once again put the spotlight on just how far the India-Japan defence relationship has come, evolving from routine military exchanges…
IIT-Bombay hostels to get wall-mounted fans NEW DELHI: IIT Bombay is planning to replace ceiling fans with wall-mounted fans in its student hostels, with sources saying the move had been under consideration for the past two months and was recently finalised. Students also claimed that the first batch of wall-mounted fans had arrived on campus.The…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has outrightly rejected the apocalyptic claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will cause the extinction of humanity in the coming years, dismissing such warnings as baseless and exaggerated scare tactics. Speaking with CBS News, Huang challenged these ‘doomsday predictions’ voiced by prominent tech leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam…
Punjab drug row explodes as Congress attacks Bhagwat Mann govt over accountability. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sachin Pilot tore into CM Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government after a person “consumed poisonous substance” over harassement he allegedly faced for speaking against durg menance in the poll-bound state.Highlighting the incident, which would possibly compound the crisis for the…
Image: Courtesy of Party Of. The Lertlumprasert sisters The Lertlumprasert sisters, Lisa, Lita, Charlene and Charlie, had talked about starting a business together since childhood. That idea finally took shape in February 2023, after a family trip to Thailand left them with a suitcase full of snacks their American friends loved. Combined with their frustration…
Couple had built their home on the neighbour’s block, PC: A Current Affair Melanie and David Moor spent more than $500,000 on what they expected to be their retirement home in Camperdown, south-west Victoria, only to discover that the house had been placed entirely on a neighbouring block. The couple had bought land in a…
The proposed $24.3 billion sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia is under careful examination The Trump administration’s approval of a potential $24.3 billion sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia has put a long-pursued defence deal on a new track.The proposed package includes 48 F-35 aircraft and 49 engines, but the…
Students gathered in large numbers at IIT-Bombay main gate to protest against the death by suicide of BTech student Sahil MUMBAI: In a late-night three-hour meeting on Sunday, IIT-Bombay director Shireesh Kedare spoke to the students who gathered in large numbers at the institute’s main gate to protest against the death by suicide of BTech…
US urges Americans to leave Iran The United States has issued a fresh advisory against travel to Iran, urging American citizens to avoid the country “for any reason” and calling on those already there to leave immediately amid heightened tensions and the threat of further escalation in West Asia.In a security alert, the US Virtual…