Cosmic bubble is the star of ‘incredible detective story’
By Nadia Whitehead
The Harvard Gazette
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form?
In...
Northeastern professor Auroop Ganguly on storm of uncertainty in climate change
By Aria Bacci
News at Northeastern
Climate change isn’t a monolith. It’s characterized by the melting of ice caps over time as much as by a...
When a bird brain tops Harvard students on a test
By Juan Siliezar
Harvard Staff Writer/Harvard Gazette
What happens when an African grey parrot goes head-to-head with 21 Harvard students in a test measuring a type...
‘Ichthyosaurs fossil find shows India’s biological connect as part of Gondwanaland’
By Rachel V. Thomas
New Delhi-- The discovery of a near-complete fossil of a Jurassic-period 'fish lizard' from a village in Gujarat's Kutch district is...
Astronomers discover an Earth-sized “pi planet” with a 3.14-day orbit
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a “pi Earth” — an Earth-sized planet...
16-Year-old Swedish activist nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Copenhagen-- Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist, who is a prominent voice in the fight against climate change, has been nominated for the Nobel...
Musk’s Starlink India head quits, wants to live next to humans
New Delhi-- In a dramatic first high-profile exit from an Elon Musk-run company in India, Sanjay Bhargava, India Director for Starlink, has stepped down...
San Francisco unlikely to be epicenter of big quake: Indian seismologist
By K.S. Jayaraman
Last month's occurrence of 70 earthquakes in just 48 hours along the "Pacific Ring of Fire" sparked fears that a big temblor...
Poaching pushes anteaters to near extinction as environment ministry shuts its eye
By Kushagra Dixit
New Delhi-- Though on the verge of extinction, pangolins or scaly anteaters -- among the most traded animals in the world that...
Tobacco industry worsening global pollution, deforestation: Expert
Mexico City-- The tobacco industry and tobacco consumption are exacerbating soil, air and water pollution, along with deforestation, according to one expert.
"The tobacco industry...
