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2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Science

In 2022, MIT researchers built a 4-inch cooler that kept food fresh without electricity

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2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Science

Nasa sent 20 balloons over Antarctica in 2013 to track particles from space

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2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Environment

Scientists turn wood waste into foam that replaces plastic and decomposes in soil within months

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2026-08-27 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Technology

In 2025, a US startup used ‘underground lightning’ to crack rock and unlock hydrogen

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2026-08-27 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Science

Apollo 15’s Genesis Rock, found in 1971, revealed a piece of the Moon’s 4-billion-year-old crust

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2026-08-26 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India · Technology

Columbia engineers develop pigment-free coating that kept surfaces 6°C cooler under Arizona sun

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2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 As they feed, they consume dry grasses, shrubs, weeds, and other vegetation that would otherwise become highly flammable during Spain’s scorching summer months. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 The insect was expected to weaken the plants by attacking their reproductive structures and reducing seed production. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Consciousness changes how we see our place in the world Humans have the capability of being aware of themselves and hence can think about not only what is happening right now, but also what will happen in the future. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Astronauts heading on long missions to Mars could face a surprisingly ordinary problem: how to keep their clothes clean without wasting precious water. mixed

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 According to the research paper, scientists Brent H. Breithaupt and David Duvall first described them in 1986 and suggested that they could represent a fossil snake hibernaculum, essentially a place where snakes sheltered together. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 The discovery could give scientists a rare opportunity to study the effects of a spinning black hole and potentially test one of the predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. mixed

2026-08-21 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Their proposed system would use analogue computing, graphene-based components and memristors to process signals while using less power. mixed

2026-08-21 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 The result has added an unusual dimension to the debate over how farmland might cope with hotter, drier conditions while still being used to produce food and renewable electricity. assertive

2026-08-24 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 By comparing the space-exposed specimens with animals raised under similar conditions on Earth, scientists could better determine which changes were associated with microgravity. assertive

2026-08-25 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Water vapour in the stratosphere can affect how the atmosphere handles radiation, so adding such a large amount was never expected to be climatically neutral. assertive

2026-08-25 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 A 2023 presentation to the Seismological Society of America described the upper-crustal low-velocity zone as the primary magma reservoir, with estimates suggesting it may contain roughly 10% to 12% partial melt. assertive

2026-08-25 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Domestic cattle would have indicated contact between Ireland’s Mesolithic communities and Neolithic farming societies elsewhere in Europe. assertive

2026-08-26 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Such regions can be especially important during adaptation because genetic variants introduced through interbreeding may provide useful traits in changing environments. assertive

2026-08-26 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 Air voids replace white pigments The researchers built on earlier work showing that simple polymers such as acrylic, silicone and PET can be effective heat radiators and could be used for PDRC. assertive

2026-08-27 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks that could reveal how the lunar surface formed. assertive

2026-08-27 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground? assertive

2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 If the current phase works as expected, the scale will change rapidly. assertive

2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 High above the ice in Antarctica, a group of enormous balloons was quietly tracking a phenomenon that could not be seen from the ground. assertive

2026-08-28 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

🔮 A surface may be able to radiate heat towards the sky, but if it absorbs too much sunlight during the day, the solar heating can cancel much of that benefit. mixed