Humanity unleashes AI and the largest ever telescope to search for life among the stars Indian astronomers will play a critical role in the 16-nation Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), whose dish array antennas began being set up this month and which will start scanning the far corners of the universe in 2027 Having joined […]
Water bound in mantle rock alters our view of the Earth’s composition Grants Weinberg College EVANSTON, Ill. — Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. Though not in the familiar liquid form — the ingredients for water are bound […]
A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity. Scientists now think they know the cause An image of Earth’s geoid produced from data obtained by the European Space Agency’s GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) mission. Credit: […]
Soyuz MS-25 arrives at ISS After a 48-hour delay, the Soyuz-2-1a rocket lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, sending the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with a crew of three on its way to the International Space Station, ISS. The crew vehicle successfully docked at the outpost on March 25, 2024. Soyuz MS-25 mission at a glance:…
Using Machine Learning to Help Digitize Ancient Texts from Indus Civilization The civilization of Indus River Valley is considered one of the three earliest civilizations in world history, along with Mesopotamia and Egypt. Bigger geographically than those two as it unfolded starting in 3300 BCE across what is now Pakistan and India, the Indus civilization […]