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Have you ever felt your heart racing, your palms turning clammy, or a sudden chill running down your spine when something startled you? These aren’t random quirks of the body; they are part of the carefully wired fear response designed to protect you. When you get scared, your brain and body work in sync to…

In a discovery that reshapes our understanding of life’s origins, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found new evidence suggesting that the first animals on Earth were ancient sea sponges. The team uncovered chemical fossils, traces of long-buried biomolecules, preserved in rocks more than 541 million years old. These fossils, linked to…

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a tiny bright yellow worm called Paralvinella hessleri thrives where almost nothing else can, around boiling hydrothermal vents that gush metal-rich, poisonous fluids. These underwater chimneys are packed with toxic substances, including arsenic and hydrogen sulphide. Yet, instead of dying, the worm uses these poisons to its advantage. According to…

This October, skywatchers have a rare celestial show to look forward to as Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) and Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) approach their closest point to Earth around October 21. Observers in the Northern Hemisphere may be able to see both comets in the sky on the same night, a spectacular and uncommon sight….

In a rare cosmic discovery, scientists have detected an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, releasing water vapor while still far from the Sun, a phenomenon that has left astronomers astonished. Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, researchers identified ultraviolet signatures of hydroxyl (OH), a byproduct of water molecules broken apart by sunlight. What makes this extraordinary is…

File photo: Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson STOCKHOLM: Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water.The three laureates worked to create molecular…

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, and Omar M Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.“Announcing the award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the trio received the prize for “creating new…

Bill Nye, famously known as “The Science Guy” and CEO of the Planetary Society, led protests on Capitol Hill earlier this month against proposed NASA budget cuts by the Trump administration. The plan would slash NASA’s funding from roughly $24 billion to $18.8 billion, a nearly 24% reduction, with science mission funding targeted for an…

Source: Discover Magazine Millions of years ago, the Red Sea, now a vital marine region, disappeared from the Earth’s surface. Cut off from the world’s oceans, its basin gradually dried into a vast salt desert. About 6.2 million years ago, a catastrophic flood refilled the basin, carving the Bab el-Mandab Strait and shaping the Red…

An asteroid made a remarkably close approach to Earth last week, flying nearer than many satellites in low Earth orbit. Named 2025 TF, the space object passed over Antarctica at just 266 miles above Earth’s surface on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 1, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Roughly 3 to 10 feet…