Tropical mountain ice cores help decipher climate riddles in Earth’s history

Hunting for ice cores, scientists and equipment scale the steep slopes of tropical mountain Huascarán. Credit: Lonnie Thompson Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery—one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future. In a new study, data from ice cores collected from Greenland, […]
Ex-India Star In Contention To Become Spin Bowling Coach At BCCI’s COE. Not Anil Kumble Or Harbhajan Singh

Former India left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi has thrown his hat in the ring for the post of spin bowling coach at BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (COE) that was vacated by Sairaj Bahutule earlier this year. The COE was earlier known as the National Cricket Academy when it was based out of the Chinnaswamy […]
Despite Trump’s tariffs, could this FTSE 250 trust be a long-term winner?

Image source: Getty Images In common with most stock market indexes, the FTSE 250 was hurt by ‘Liberation Day’. In the three days after President Trump’s related speech, it fell over 4.5%. Unfortunately, we now know that the maths used to calculate the tariffs that were apparently being imposed on the United States was flawed. […]
Pakistan defense minister: Military incursion by India is imminent
From an interview with Reuters: In a normal armed conflict, both countries should refrain from using nuclear weapons Says would only use nuclear weapons if there is a direct threat to our existence Great, just great. More war is just what the world needs, especially between a country with 1.4 billion people and another with […]
Medicaid cuts may disproportionately affect Black, Latino doctors and their patients

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Los Angeles pediatrician and urgent care specialist Dr. Ilan Shapiro worries for his chronically ill patients as he watches Congress weigh significant cuts to Medicaid. He thinks of a boy who, before finding Shapiro’s clinic, was in and out of emergency rooms and intensive care units because of severe asthma attacks, […]
China expert Gordon Chang details ‘end-of-regime, perplexing’ conduct out of Beijing

Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang on why China has folded in the trade war, the state of its economy, the dispute with the Philippines over control of the Sandy Cay reef and Huawei’s development of a new A.I. chip. Something is “very, very wrong” in Beijing right now, according to foreign policy expert Gordon […]
Geoengineering technique could cool planet using existing aircraft

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, according to a new modeling study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. Previously, most research has assumed that the […]
Eos: One Of The Largest Single Structures In The Sky Discovered And It’s Among The Closest Ever Detected To Earth

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud of molecular hydrogen gas that may one day condense down into stars. However, because its light is only detectable in a rarely studied part of the spectrum, all this gas has not been […]
RR vs GT LIVE Score, IPL 2025 LIVE: RR’s Rs 39 Crore Payment In Question Ahead Of Must-Win Tie

RR vs GT LIVE Scorecard, IPL 2025 LIVE Cricket Updates© BCCI RR vs GT LIVE Updates, IPL 2025: Rajasthan Royals (RR) host Gujarat Titans (GT) in their IPL 2025 clash in Jaipur tonight, with both teams having different agendas. RR are in a do-or-die scenario, and must win every single game to keep their […]
There’s one thing stopping me from buying Aviva shares today

Image source: Getty Images Aviva (LSE: AV) shares have done well in recent years, and it’s killing me. I want to buy them but I can’t! The FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager has delivered capital growth and dividend income, rewarding long-term investors who had the patience to sit tight when the stock was stuck […]