Author: Diya M

Amul, a dairy company with headquarters in Gujarat, has been accused of interfering with Aavin, which is administered by the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, less than a month after Amul was seen at odds with Nandini, a dairy company with headquarters in Karnataka.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah demanding that Shah give Amul immediate and direct instructions to cease milk acquisition operations in Tamil Nadu. Stalin asserted that Amul had established freezing facilities and a manufacturing unit in the Krishnagiri district using its multi-state cooperative license, thereby creating unfavourable competition with…

According to information from the Juno spacecraft, lightning on Jupiter and Earth are quite similar. Despite the two planet’s significant differences in size and structure, analysis of data from NASA hardware has revealed that pulses during the formation of lightning on the faraway gas giant occur at a rate similar to our Earth. The clouds that cover Jupiter’s exteriors are rich in Ammonia and play an essential role in concealing the interior clouds, which are made of water. NASA’s Juno mission has revealed that lightning frequently occurs within these clouds, akin to the phenomenon observed on Earth.  Demystifying the Lightning…

In a revolutionary discovery, the scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have reported the confirmation of a polar cyclone on the surface of Uranus. The event was observed on the North pole of the planet using ground-based telescopes that provided unparalleled views of Uranus, which was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. By analysing radio waves released from Uranus, scientists discovered that the air moving around the north pole is likely to be warmer and dryer, which is a positive sign of a powerful storm. The findings support a general observation about all the planets in…

The precarious conditions for animals during ‘The Great Dying’ are being revealed by the fossils of a rare saber-toothed predator, ‘Inostrancevia,’ that existed during the worst mass extinction event on Earth. After the Permian epoch, 250 million years ago, a string of super-volcano eruptions in Eurasia released greenhouse gasses that resulted in catastrophic climate change. About 90% of species on Earth vanished due to global warming and oxygen depletion in the oceans and atmosphere. This created the ideal conditions for dinosaurs to emerge and take over the globe until their extinction 66 million years ago. However, the Permian global extinction…

According to Live Science, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found the first proof that millions of supermassive stars or ‘celestial monsters’ may have been hidden at the dawn of the universe. The most prominent stars that have been detected to date are about 300 times as massive as the Sun. However, the latest study’s supermassive star is thought to weigh between 5,000 and 10,000 Suns and is five times hotter than the Sun. These massive stars, which first appeared only 440 million years after the Big Bang, were given the epithet “celestial monsters” by scientists. The findings of…

On Sunday, 21 May, at 5:37 pm EDT, Axiom Space via SpaceX launched its private mission to the International Space Station, which marked a series of landmark breakthroughs for space voyages. In addition to being the second all-private mission to the station, the mission made history by sending Rayyanah Barnawi, the first Saudi Arabian woman in space, as a member of the country’s inaugural astronaut class. Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who served as the organisation’s first female Chief Astronaut and first female space station commander, is in charge of the mission. She will now be the first woman…

In a recent research published in Nature, scientists have challenged the widely held belief of a distinct lineage that led to the complex origin of our species. For centuries, the study of human genome variation has hinted at the divergence of the human population emerging from a single ancestral community in Africa. The ‘out-of-Africa’ hypothesis consistently claims that early humans evolved about 150,000 years ago before moving to other parts of the world. However, it has been difficult to explain the emergence and dispersion of homo sapiens through the classical theory due to the scanty evidence of fossils and its…