Science

Have you ever wondered if turtles and tortoises are the same? They look pretty similar with their shells and slow moves, but they actually live very different lives! Some say all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises! It's like saying all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares... Let’s get this right !

Think of a total lunar eclipse like the ultimate cosmic shadow show. Here's the setup: Earth sits between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow directly onto the Moon's surface. Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon, giving it an eerie, magical glow instead of making it disappear.

When you think of the heaviest living thing, your brain probably jumps to a blue whale. Fair guess! 200 tons of pure mass. But the real heavyweight champion on Earth is… a fungus! Meet Armillaria ostoyae, aka the Humongous Fungus.

Here's some wild news: Earth is spinning faster than it has in decades! On July 9 and 22, Earth shaved off 1.3 and 1.4 milliseconds from the day. August 5 might be even shorter by 1.5 milliseconds. "Milliseconds? Who cares?!" Well… GPS, banking systems, and ultra-precise computers definitely care. When time slips, so do they.

Here’s a pop quiz! Which animal do you think has the loudest voice in the whole animal kingdom? (A) A roaring lion (B) A trumpeting elephant (C) A screaming human (D) A shrimp Did you guess the roaring lion or the noisy elephant? Surprise! It’s actually the shrimp! Yep, this tiny creature is the ultimate loudmouth.

In May 2025, astronomer Sihao Chieng and his out-of-this-world team made a stellar discovery — a brand-new dwarf planet candidate*, nicknamed 2017 OF201. This icy rockball lives way out in the outer solar system and is the biggest dwarf planet find in over 10 years! What a planet-tastic discovery!

At Paris Haute Couture Week, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen made fashion glow up—literally! She unveiled a bioluminescent dress that lights up the night, powered by 125 million tiny, glowing algae cells. Yep, real sea critters turned runway star! It’s where science meets style and magic happens - talk about a bright idea!

What do a button, a coin, a pizza, a wheel and the Sun all have in common? They're all round, of course! But there's something even cooler connecting them ... Pi (π): the endless number with circle superpowers! Why ‘endless’? π starts as 3.14159... and goes on forever without repeating (also called an irrational number)! If you measure around any circle (circumference) and then divide it by how wide it is across the middle (diameter), you’ll always get the same number Pi (π

Picture this: zooming into space and living for two whole weeks aboard the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting about 400 kilometers above Earth (that’s like flying all the way across 4,000 big school buses parked bumper to bumper)! While floating around, the crew (from India, Poland, Hungary, and the USA) will conduct awesome science experiments and more. That’s what's happening with Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)!

What are these Rare Earth Elements (REE)? Why there is a sudden scarcity of these elements?

Alright moon munchkins, gather around, it’s time for a berry important announcement! The June 2025 Strawberry Full moon just happened!! Squeeeeaaal!! ...wait, you don't know what that is? Oh crater chaos! we’ve got some catching up to do!