Education
Why do stars appear different colors in the night sky?
India’s AI strategy needs a classroom blueprint
‘Bhed Chaal’ vs reality: Unemployed IIT graduate at crossroads; asks Internet what is better — PhD or low-paying job?
Katharine Birbalsingh: Middle class parents shun my schools
LU placements rise steadily over 3 years, salaries touch ₹12 lakh
The Mediterranean Sea was once completely dry — about 5.6 million years ago, the connection to the Atlantic Ocean was closed by geological shifts, and the entire sea evaporated into a massive salt-floored basin two miles below sea level, which remained empty for roughly 600,000 years before the Strait of Gibraltar reopened and the Atlantic refilled it in what may have been the largest waterfall in Earth’s history
In a Japanese preschool, the shoes line up by themselves, the snack bowls sit on a low shelf a four-year-old can reach, and a child walks in already knowing what to do because the room, and not the adult, has quietly done the teaching
Before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, Italian cooking had no tomatoes, Irish cooking had no potatoes, Swiss chocolate did not exist, and Thai cuisine had no chili peppers — each of those ingredients grew on a continent the other half of humanity had not yet found
Higher education transformation amid global mobility trends
The Lowest-Paying College Degrees in America, Ranked
Hold separate TET for in-service teachers: UP CM Yogi
Quiz: Can You Name All 8 Planets Without Hesitating?
Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes — an area roughly the size of Rhode Island — according to a May 2025 study in Science Advances, meaning more than 99.999 percent of the seafloor covering two-thirds of our planet has never been observed by anyone, ever
Your own voice sounds different to other people than it sounds to you, because the version you hear is reaching your inner ear partly through the bones of your skull, which amplify lower frequencies that everyone else cannot hear — and the recorded version that strikes most people as alien when they first hear it is in fact the only version of their voice anyone else has ever known
If a bee searching for nectar might be conscious and ChatGPT almost certainly isn’t, what exactly were we measuring when we decided something was aware?
British Council shares 5 things students should know about UK IBC's in India
Scientists have detected a giant fan-shaped structure buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, suggesting the frozen continent may be hiding the geological scars of the breakup that helped separate Antarctica from Australia
AI, robotics to get a major boost in UP govt schools; IIT-K to train 900 teachers
Gold isn’t rare on Earth — it’s buried 3,000 kilometres too deep to reach. In 2025, scientists found that more than 99.999% of the planet’s precious metals are locked in the core, while Hawaiian lava carries traces suggesting some of that core material is slowly leaking upward.
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.
