The first man to ever take steps outside the confines of the spacecraft was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965. What at first seemed like a victory in the highly competitive Space Race very quickly developed into a fight for Leonov’s life. While out floating above Earth, Leonov experienced problems with his spacesuit…
A spacecraft drifting past Neptune would not need much imagination to picture diamonds forming in its atmosphere. Deep inside ice giants, carbon compounds are squeezed under pressures that break molecular bonds and reorganise atoms into crystalline structures. In lab experiments and planetary simulations, scientists have modelled this “diamond rain” for decades, and missions like NASA’s…
Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotations remain popular because they offer encouragement. Others survive because they reveal something uncomfortable about human nature. This remark, commonly attributed to Nikola Tesla, belongs to the second group.The sentence is short, but it leaves a strong impression. Tesla takes an emotion that most people have experienced at some point…
NEW DELHI: The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) on Sunday sought urgent assistance for 24 Indian seafarers aboard a vessel reportedly attacked off the coast of Oman, amid heightened tensions in the region linked to the Israel-Iran conflict.In a post on X, the union said the vessel was located near the Strait of Hormuz…
Ask a group of people to define success and the answers will probably sound familiar. A high-paying job. A thriving business. Financial security. A large house. Recognition. The ability to afford things that once seemed out of reach.None of these are unreasonable answers.Money affects daily life in countless ways. It can provide comfort, stability and…
Image: The Nature Conservatory Since ancient times, communities living along the eastern parts of Indonesia have been employing a traditional system referred to as sasi in order to preserve the ocean waters on which they depended for their survival. Even before marine protection systems were invented and even before fishing quotas were established through conservation…
June 15 declared UAE holiday as millions get 3-day weekend / Image:File Residents across the UAE are set to enjoy another public holiday this month after authorities confirmed that Monday, June 15, 2026, will be an official holiday to mark the Islamic New Year, also known as the Hijri New Year. The announcement applies to…
Rain and showers set to dominate UK weather this week / Image: File After a spell of warmer and drier weather in parts of the country, much of the UK faces a cooler and more unsettled week as bands of rain, sunshine and showers move across the nation.The Met Office says Monday will begin with…
Inside a bakery complex in ancient Pompeii, bread production did not just stop; it froze. Archaeologists working in the House of the Chaste Lovers recently uncovered something that complicates the familiar image of panic and ash-filled silence: two animals trapped beneath a collapsed room, still positioned as if the day might continue. The Archaeological Park…
Inside a modern data centre, performance is already constrained less by raw transistor capability and more by heat removal. Server racks packed tightly together push thermal systems to their limit, and operators often throttle workloads not because chips can’t compute faster, but because cooling systems can’t keep up. Against that backdrop, the claim that processors…