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Seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer Victor Vescovo descended in 2019 to a depth where the pressure equals 50 jumbo jets stacked overhead — and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light has ever reached, he found a plastic bag and several candy wrappers waiting on the seabed.
Why Is the Sky Blue?
Scientists finally unravel the mysteries of a pianist’s ‘touch’ after measuring hand and finger movements with "microscopic spatial precision"
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a table and left gaps for what had not yet been discovered, but the detail that makes the periodic table remarkable is that chemistry became organized enough to predict missing pieces of reality
Work afoot on law to cap annual fee hike by pvt schools: Punjab minister
I asked ChatGPT to help me learn coding in a 12-Sunday upskilling plan: AI gives me structured routine
Scientists say the gold in wedding rings, teeth, and family heirlooms was forged in cosmic catastrophes long before our sun existed
In September 2023 a mega-tsunami in Greenland sent tremors around the entire planet for nine days and scientists have only just confirmed how
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that every continent, every island, and every desert on Earth could fit inside it with room to spare, which is why calling our planet blue is almost an understatement
Quote of the Day by motivational speaker Brian Tracy on discipline: ‘Your life only gets better when you get better’
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet’s history, wiping out the vast majority of species alive at the time, in what biologists now call the Great Oxidation Event
LA Unified School District bans screen time before the second grade, among the strictest policies in the nation
Almost every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was forged inside stars that died long before the Sun was born, which means the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones are quite literally the remains of dead stars
The Hidden World of Sand: Discovering How These Tiny Grains Build Our World and Environment
UPSC rolls out face authentication at exam centres to curb impersonation: Here's how it works
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that it’s larger than every continent on Earth combined — and there’s a single straight line you could sail through it for nearly 20,000 miles without ever touching land
Why Do Coins Have Ridges?
If you dropped Mount Everest into the deepest point of the ocean, its peak would still sit more than two kilometres beneath the surface, because the Mariana Trench plunges far deeper than the mountain stands tall
Scientists have directly observed less than 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor — an area comparable to the state of Rhode Island — despite decades of exploration, according to a global dataset of 44,000 deep-sea dives compiled by the Ocean Discovery League
Nearly four kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice sheet lies Lake Vostok, a hidden lake the size of a small sea. It has been cut off from sunlight and the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of years — making it one of Earth’s closest rehearsals for the buried oceans of Europa and Enceladus, where any life would also have to survive in darkness beneath a frozen shell.
