Education
Why skills will power India’s journey to Viksit Bharat@2047
‘Tell me about yourself’: I asked ChatGPT to prepare me for a big job interview; AI gives me key questions and answers
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
Why do stars appear different colors in the night sky?
French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground
The oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today — but when it first started accumulating in the air roughly 2.4 billion years ago, it triggered the most lethal pollution event in the planet’s history, wiping out the vast majority of species alive at the time, in what biologists now call the Great Oxidation Event
A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest does, not because it is taller, but because the Earth bulges at the equator and Everest, further from that bulge, is actually deeper inside the planet.
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a table and left gaps for what had not yet been discovered, but the detail that makes the periodic table remarkable is that chemistry became organized enough to predict missing pieces of reality
Quiz: Can You Name the Countries With the Most Islands Before Time Runs Out?
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 — heard from approximately 4,800 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean — with a sound wave so powerful it traveled around the entire planet four times, was measured on barometers thousands of miles distant, and ruptured the eardrums of sailors aboard ships up to 65 kilometers from the eruption site
College admissions: Demand for professional courses rises
A small wave breaking on a beach contains more living organisms than the total number of humans who have ever existed on Earth — roughly 10 million bacteria, viruses, and tiny plankton in every milliliter of seawater — meaning every wave that touches the shore carries a population of life that vastly outnumbers every person who has ever lived in the entire history of our species
Baltimore County expands cursive instruction to all 2nd, 3rd grade classrooms
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.
A single aspen grove in Utah called Pando is one organism sharing a 106-acre root system and 47,000 genetically identical trunks, weighs roughly 6,000 tons, and has been quietly cloning itself for somewhere between 9,000 and 80,000 years while every visible trunk above it lives and dies on a 130-year cycle.
Teaching teens to navigate social media
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs struck what is now Mexico with such force that it blasted molten ejecta high above the atmosphere before it rained back down across the planet, and many of the survivors were small, sheltered creatures — including early mammals on the line that would eventually lead to us.
CBSE rejects Rahul Gandhi's ‘erroneous, misleading' allegations over Coempt Edu Teck contract
Antarctica is the largest desert on the planet, because a desert is defined by how little water falls from the sky rather than by heat, and almost nothing falls on the frozen continent.
Earth’s largest waterfall is hidden underwater in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, where dense cold water plunges about 3,500 meters down the seafloor, far exceeding any waterfall on land in drop height and volume
