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Nepal PM Sushila Karki sworn in: Posing with Gen Z protest leaders who elected her via Discord

Nepal PM selected via Discord: How the gaming chat app empowered its Gen Z protestors

September 13, 2025 7:09 pm

The manner of Karki’s appointment has generated curiosity, with protesters flocking to the messaging app Discord to cast an informal vote in her favour. Here is what to know about the platform dubbed “Slack for Gamers” and how the vote unfolded.

Scientists uncover hidden freshwater under sea floor: What are offshore aquifers and why are they significant?

September 09, 2025 7:43 pm

Over the years, scientists have confirmed the existence of offshore aquifers at several locations, including off the coasts of Australia, China, North America, and South Africa. However, they have not been really explored primarily due to an exclusive focus on aquifers on land and logistical reasons

Red Sea cable cut: Undersea cables on the vessel Monna Lisa at the Prysmian plant in Pikkala, Finland, May 14, 2025.

Red Sea cable cut interrupts internet in Asia: How data travels to you under the ocean

September 09, 2025 3:39 pm

Asia internet outage, Red Sea cable cut: What exactly are cables doing in the ocean, and are instances of damage or cuts to undersea cables unusual?

India gets its first indigenous microprocessor: What are semiconductor chips and why are they significant?

September 08, 2025 9:14 pm

Semiconductor chips are the building blocks of modern computation. From smartphones to the vast datacentres powering the Internet, from electric cars to cruise missiles, from high-end luxury products to weather-predicting supercomputers — all of them run on these tiny chips

The Blood Moon as seen from, Ludhiana, Punjab, around 40 minutes after midnight.

Blood Moon visible in India: What is it and why you should care, in 5 points

September 08, 2025 6:47 pm

Total Lunar Eclipse September 2025 Time: How is a Blood Moon related to the colour of the sky and of sunrises and sunsets? What is a lunar eclipse in the first place? We explain, in 5 points.

Typically, proteins are made of a combination of 20 different kinds of amino acids, and the structure and function of each protein are governed by the arrangement of the various amino acids in it.

How scientists got a glimpse of the inner workings of protein language models

September 08, 2025 1:11 pm

A team of researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the United States) has tried to shed light on the inner workings of the language models that predict the structure and function of proteins by using an innovative technique

Afghanistan earthquake: 800 dead, why the quake was so deadly

September 01, 2025 5:58 pm

Afghanistan earthquake news today: Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. In 2023, the country’s Herat province experienced three major earthquakes, which killed nearly 1,300 people and wounded around 1,700. In 2022, a 5.9-magnitude quake killed at least 1,300 people in the southeast region

What are blue dragons, which have led to beach closures in Spain?

September 02, 2025 7:33 am

Their arrival, which has angered locals and ruined vacations during the peak summer tourism in Spain, has surprised everyone, including scientists. Blue dragons are typically found in tropical waters and have been rarely seen in the Mediterranean Sea

Modi travels on Shinkansen: How iconic bullet train design was inspired by a kingfisher’s beak

August 30, 2025 3:22 pm

The Shinkansen is the world fastest and most efficient high-speed rail system, boasting average speeds of well over 200 km/h and zero passenger fatalities since its inauguration in 1964

SpaceX’s Starship completes critical test flight: Everything you need to know about the world’s largest rocket

August 27, 2025 4:40 pm

This was Starship’s tenth attempt to reach the skies, and its first clean flight since November 2024. Its last three attempts did not go entirely according to plan. While on Flight 7 and Flight 8, Starship’s upper stage exploded over the Caribbean, on Flight 9, it exploded after reaching space. In June, the upper stage blew up during a ground test