Education
In 1868 astronomers found a new element in the Sun’s light, named it helium for the Greek word for the Sun, and no one found a trace of it on Earth for another 27 years
In the age of AI, India must raise ‘reimagineers’
There is more freshwater locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle than in every river, lake, and surface reservoir on the planet combined, hidden in a mineral called ringwoodite hundreds of miles beneath your feet
Quote of the day by Immanuel Kant on critical thinking: ‘Have courage to use your own understanding’
By 2025, a 4,800-year-old bristlecone pine named Methuselah in California’s White Mountains remained the oldest known non-clonal living tree, and the exact location of the gnarled, wind-stunted survivor is kept secret by the US Forest Service to protect it from vandals and souvenir hunters.
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 — heard from approximately 4,800 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean — with a sound wave so powerful it traveled around the entire planet four times, was measured on barometers thousands of miles distant, and ruptured the eardrums of sailors aboard ships up to 65 kilometers from the eruption site
AI Is Reshaping Classrooms. Are India's teachers getting the support they need?
India’s AI strategy needs a classroom blueprint
Scientists say the oxygen you just breathed in was once the deadliest poison on the planet, released by tiny microbes that accidentally wiped out most of the life around them in what geologists call the Great Oxidation Event
Ex-Google intern meets IIT Kharagpur grad who solves JEE questions ‘for fun’: ‘Different league altogether’
‘Bhed Chaal’ vs reality: Unemployed IIT graduate at crossroads; asks Internet what is better — PhD or low-paying job?
Why Is the Sky Blue?
The Magic of Rainbows: The Science Behind Why We See Colors in the Sky
In 2004, paleontologists digging in the Canadian Arctic unearthed the fossil of a 375-million-year-old creature named Tiktaalik that possessed both the scales of a fish and the sturdy, jointed limb bones of a land animal—and this single, perfect transitional fossil bridged the evolutionary gap between water and land, showing the exact moment our distant ancestors began to crawl out of the sea.
A rainbow is not actually located in any specific place in the sky — every person watching the same rainbow is seeing a slightly different one, formed by different raindrops, and if two people stood next to each other looking at the same rainbow, the rainbows they are seeing would be technically different, with no two viewers in the world ever sharing the exact same rainbow
RESULTS: June 2026 Physical Therapists Licensure Examination
UPSC rolls out face authentication at exam centres to curb impersonation: Here's how it works
Higher education transformation amid global mobility trends
Why skills will power India’s journey to Viksit Bharat@2047
Over 74,000 students to receive free school supplies this June
