On Thursday, researchers unveiled the most precise measurement yet of a neutrino, scaling down the maximum possible mass of the ghostly specks of matter that permeate our universe. The result, published in the journal Science, does not define the exact mass of a neutrino, just its upper limit. But the finding helps bring physicists closer…
A sharp decline in the issuance of student visas by the US may seem like a Donald Trump effect, but numbers tell a different story. The number of student visas approved for Indians has seen a marked decrease, which conforms to the overall reduction in education visas issued by the American government. Trump or no…
Climate change is accelerating the melting of the world’s mountain glaciers, according to a massive new study that found them shrinking more than twice as fast as in the early 2000s. The world’s glaciers lost ice at the rate of about 255 billion tons (231 billion metric tons) annual from 2000 to 2011, but that…