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Nobel Prize 2025 in Physics: Three scientists — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis — have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work on quantum mechanical tunnelling, a discovery that has laid crucial groundwork for the development of quantum computing. The Nobel Committee praised their work for…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their pioneering work on a new class of materials: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). The three scientists were honoured, according to the Academy, “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Their collective achievement…

The US government shutdown has brought NASA’s day-to-day operations to a standstill, leaving the public wondering: who is keeping America’s astronauts and spacecraft safe in space? Over 15,000 NASA employees have been furloughed, halting most scientific research, mission development, and public outreach. Only a small cadre of “excepted” personnel remains on duty, tasked with safeguarding…

SpaceX’s mighty Starship rocket completed another high-stakes test flight on Monday, successfully traveling halfway around the world before splashing down in the Indian Ocean. The mission marked another milestone for the world’s most powerful rocket as engineers push toward sending humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. The towering 403-foot Starship roared to…

A new animal study suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection in fathers before conception could cause changes in sperm. It can affect the brain development and behaviour of their offspring, potentially increasing anxiety risks later in life. The findings, published in Nature Communications, raise concerns about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on future generations. Previous research has…

Chennai, Oct 18 (PTI) The Chandrayaan-2 mission, launched in 2019, has made the first-ever observation of the effects of the Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the Moon using its onboard scientific instruments, ISRO said on Saturday. This observation would help understand the lunar exosphere, very thin atmosphere of the Moon, and the impact of…

Turns out, Earth isn’t a one-moon kind of planet after all, at least not for the next few decades. NASA has confirmed that a pint-sized asteroid, officially tagged 2025 PN7, has been quietly orbiting the Sun alongside us. Spotted first by the University of Hawaii, this cosmic hitchhiker has earned the title of a “quasi-moon”,…