Marie Curie once offered a powerful message about self-belief, perseverance and the importance of finding a purpose in life: “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Curie wrote these words in a letter to her brother Joseph on March 18, 1894, when she…
Yanbu has become increasingly important to Saudi Arabia as it seeks to maintain crude shipments. (Reuters photo) With ships facing risks, some Asian refiners are unwilling to pick crude oil shipments from Yanbu on the Red Sea. Refiners are reportedly seeking an alternative to Saudi Aramco’s request that they collect crude from Yanbu on the…
Stephen Hawking‘s words offer a genuinely powerful reminder that a difficult situation rarely means every single possibility has actually disappeared. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at,” he said. “It matters that you don’t just give up.” He said this in a speech to the Oxford Union…
Tata Power and IIT Bombay partner to develop and commercialise next-generation clean energy technologies. MUMBAI : Tata Power and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) have signed a Master Research Agreement (MRA) to jointly accelerate the development, scaling and commercialization of next-generation energy technologies and clean energy solutions.The agreement was signed at the…
Atolls can take up to 30 million years to form, but these tiny coral islands now support 31 million seabirds across the Indo-Pacific (PC: AI Generated) Atolls may look like tiny rings of sand and coral scattered across warm tropical oceans, but they are far more important than their small land areas. These unusual natural…
Tata Power Renewables launches CREAMS, a 24×7 digital command centre to monitor and optimise its solar and wind assets nationwide. MUMBAI: Tata Power Renewables has launched its state-of-the-art Centre for Renewable Energy Analytics, Monitoring & Scheduling (CREAMS) at the company’s Trombay plant on August 20, highlighting a facility that is among the most advanced centralised…
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) SuBastian is deployed from the research vessel Falkor (too) in the South Atlantic during the expedition. Image Credit: Alex Ingle / Schmidt Ocean Institute An international team of marine scientists has discovered 31 new species in the ocean’s vast midwater zone during an expedition in the tropical South Atlantic off the…
IIT Kharagpur assessment flags weak, highly plastic soil and drainage issues as key causes of premature failures on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. NEW DELHI: Use of weak and highly plastic soil beneath the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway appears to be one of the main reasons for premature failures (slippage) on one of its stretches, an expert assessment has…
Representative Image of asteroid (585349) Eeuwes traveling through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter (AI-generated image) A 1.5-kilometre asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter now carries the name of Astrid Eeuwes, a Dutch amateur astronomer from Nijmegen who spends much of her time studying micrometeorites, tiny particles of space material that…
A total of 57 Trump officials are estimated to have fortunes of at least $100 million. US President Donald Trump has surpassed his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich people he has appointed. According to a report released on Monday by consumer advocacy organisation Public Citizen, Trump has appointed more than four times as many…