The moon-forming event: Why it was by explosive ejection rather than a giant impact

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

IIT-Roorkee releases JEE Advanced 2026 Syllabus; complete list of topics for Physics, Maths, Chemistry here

To be eligible for JEE Advanced 2026, candidates must rank among the top 2.5 lakh students in JEE Main 2026, satisfy the age criteria. Additionally, candidates must have appeared for their Class 12 ...
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The India paradox: AI anxiety rises even as energy jobs surge

Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, once remarked, “Prediction is very difficult, ...

Cracking the mystery of heat flow in few-atoms thin materials

For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the ...

Scientists develop mini human heart organoid that mimics atrial fibrillation

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...
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Simple-to-Apply Wetting Model to Predict Thermodynamically Stable and Metastable Contact Angles on Textured/Rough/Patterned Surfaces

‡ Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, 84990 Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel ∥ Water ...