NEW DELHI: A team of 30 scientists from India’s premier institute, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has submitted a proposal to the government to develop ‘angstrom-scale’ chips, far smaller than the smallest chips currently in production. The team has submitted the proposal to the government for developing technologies using a new class of semiconductor…
Found 120 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Leo, the K2-18b planet is causing ripples among scientists. Twice the size of the Earth, the planet orbits the habitable zone of its star where temperatures may be conducive to the presence of liquid water. Scientists recently discovered chemicals in its atmosphere in the form…
Dr. Sarah Fortune, an immunologist who spends a lot of time in her laboratory at Harvard, never expected to be caught in a battle with the White House. But early Tuesday morning, she received an official notice to “stop work” on her lab’s federally funded research on tuberculosis, an infectious disease that kills more than…
The human brain is so complex that scientific brains have a hard time making sense of it. A piece of neural tissue the size of a grain of sand might be packed with hundreds of thousands of cells linked together by miles of wiring. In 1979, Francis Crick, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist, concluded that the anatomy…
For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction. Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.” In 2021, a separate team…
After listening to hundreds of hours of ape calls, a team of scientists say they have detected a hallmark of human language: the ability to put together strings of sounds to create new meanings. The provocative finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, drew praise from some scholars and skepticism from others. Federica Amici, a…
New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct. Source link
In the first for the exoplanetary community, scientists have announced four new small Earth-like planets around Barnard’s Star, just six light-years from our world. The four planets are all smaller than Earth but share one thing in common: all of them are rocky, similar to Earth.The discovery of these four tiny, terrestrial planets surrounding Barnard’s…
A team of nine South African scientists stationed at the SANAE IV research base in Antarctica is reportedly facing escalating threats from one of their colleagues, described as a ‘madman.’ The team, which includes three women and six men, has been dealing with disturbing behaviour from a male crew member, which has prompted them to…
The Trump administration intends to thousands scientists and researchers from the US federal government, involving significant reductions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as legislators warned Tuesday.The dismissals would arise from the EPA, an agency handling pollution, clean water and climate change issues, dissolving its scientific research division, which currently employs more than 1,500 staff.Documents…