Look around you. Trees swaying in the breeze, birds cutting across the sky, ants busy at work in the cracks of the sidewalk. Life, in its overwhelming diversity, is everywhere.…
Author: Muhammad Tuhin
Biology’s Biggest Questions: Are We Alone in the Universe?
For millennia, humans have looked up at the night sky, wondering if they were gazing into an empty void—or into a vast cosmic ocean teeming with life. The question “Are…
The Mystery of Life: How Biology Shapes Our World
Life. A four-letter word that wraps around everything we know. It’s the spark in a firefly’s glow, the pulse beneath our skin, and the green shoot pushing through cracked concrete.…
Dark Energy: Unraveling the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
In the cosmic playbook, few mysteries grip scientists quite like dark energy. It’s the unseen hand pushing galaxies apart, accelerating the universe’s expansion, and defying everything we thought we knew…
Scientists Pinpoint Age of the Moon’s Largest, Oldest Crater: South Pole–Aitken Basin Formed 4.25 Billion Years Ago
For decades, scientists have wrestled with one of lunar science’s most enduring mysteries: just how old is the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known impact crater on…
A Terrifying Glimpse Into Our Galaxy’s Possible Fate: A Supermassive Black Hole and Jets That Could Doom Life on Earth
The universe is filled with wonders, but every so often, astronomers stumble across something that sends a collective shiver down the spine of science. A recent discovery has done just…
The Galactic Year: One Orbit Around the Milky Way
When we think of a “year,” we picture the Earth taking its familiar path around the Sun—365 days, give or take a few hours, a rhythm that defines life on…
Wireless THz Interconnect Breaks Quantum Computing Bottleneck
Quantum computers have long promised to revolutionize industries—from drug discovery to logistics optimization and secure communications. Leveraging the mind-bending principles of quantum mechanics, these futuristic machines process information in a…
Compact Solid-State Laser Achieves 193-nm Deep Ultraviolet Light
In the world of light, shorter wavelengths unlock a new realm of possibilities. Deep ultraviolet (DUV) lasers, known for their razor-sharp precision and ultra-high energy photons, are the secret workhorses…
Super-Earths: Could We Live on These Giant Planets?
For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve wondered: Are we alone? Could there be other worlds out there, teeming with life or waiting to…
First Light: The Earliest Galaxies in the Universe
Imagine a universe drenched in darkness. No stars twinkling in distant skies, no galaxies swirling in elegant spirals, no light at all. This was the cosmos shortly after the Big…
Why Do Some Planets Have Rings While Others Don’t?
Have you ever gazed up at pictures of Saturn, its gleaming rings stretching out like cosmic jewelry, and wondered, Why does Saturn get to wear the bling? What about the…
The Science of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Detecting Alien Skies
When we gaze up at the night sky, what do we see? Tiny points of light, distant suns burning in the black. Yet we know that many of those stars…
The Artificial Brain That Hunts Interstellar Objects
In the vast, silent theater of space, a rare class of cosmic wanderers makes a fleeting appearance—interstellar objects (ISOs). These mysterious travelers are cosmic postcards from distant star systems, composed…
Hypernovae: The Cosmic Titans That Forge the Universe
The universe is a grand, unfolding epic of creation and destruction, a stage where stars are born, live out brilliant lives, and die in cataclysms of unimaginable power. Among the…
Could a Rogue Black Hole Pass Through Our Solar System?
Imagine looking up at the night sky and realizing something is wrong. The stars seem to be shifting, strange gravitational anomalies are at play, and the solar system’s outer planets…
Stellar Cannibalism: When Stars Eat Their Neighbors
Deep in the vast blackness of space, where the rules of life and death play out on scales beyond human comprehension, stars—those brilliant beacons of light—engage in behaviors that seem…
Hypernovae: The Most Violent Explosions in the Universe
Among the countless wonders of the universe, few events are as spectacular—or as terrifying—as hypernovae. These cosmic explosions release more energy in mere seconds than our Sun will produce in…
The Ghostly Hunt for Quantum Gravity: Neutrinos Under the Sea
Quantum gravity is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in modern physics. It is the missing bridge between general relativity—which explains the vast, cosmic-scale workings of gravity—and quantum mechanics, which…
Harnessing Earth’s Rotation for Electricity: A Groundbreaking Experiment by Princeton Physicists
For centuries, humans have sought innovative ways to generate energy, from harnessing the sun’s rays to tapping into the power of wind and water. Now, a team of physicists from…