(Space.com and Wikipedia) Nambi Narayanan, a senior scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), had his career turned upside down by a false espionage case in 1994. At the time, he was leading India’s cryogenic rocket engine programme and trying to get technology from Russia, working tirelessly to advance the country’s space ambitions. The…

Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar visitor ever seen, appears to be stuffed with methanol, an alcohol you might find in a lab, not your drink. Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers reportedly measured methanol at levels far…

Galileo Galilei (Image source: Wikipedia) Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who lived in the 1500s and 1600s. A lot of people think of him as one of the most important scientists in history because he found things that changed how people thought about the universe. Galileo’s work laid the groundwork for…

Dark oxygen discovered under the Pacific Ocean (Image source: AI-generated) For decades, school textbooks have explained that oxygen on Earth is mainly produced through photosynthesis, a process that depends on sunlight. Plants, algae, and some bacteria use light to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen. But a new study of the deep sea has…

Japan has increasingly adopted automated immigration technology to speed up border procedures, meaning many travellers may now pass through the airport without receiving a passport stamp. However, for those who still want to have the traditional exit or entry stamp, which is often considered a souvenir for those who have traveled, they can still apply…