Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

The Times tested for lead, mercury and other heavy metals in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. From respiratory problems to ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

Kasturirangan, who was chairman of the drafting committee of the new National Education Policy (NEP), had also served as ...

In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. A fundamental rule in physics is ...

Magnetar flares can create gold, platinum, and uranium in seconds, reshaping cosmic element formation theories.

Key to the success of the technique is the discovery of recoilless gamma ray emission and absorption, now referred to as the 'Mössbauer Effect', after its discoverer Rudolph Mössbauer, who first ...

Kasturirangan was also the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, from April 2004 to 2009. He had ...