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Spring Equinox 2025: What to know about the vernal equinox | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 21, 2025 12:48 PM IST Thursday (March 20) marks the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and fall in the Southern Hemisphere, with the arrival of the vernal equinox. What are equinoxes? On this day, the sun appears directly above the ...
Voyage of the iguanas: How they travelled from Americas to Fiji | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readUpdated: Mar 21, 2025 01:02 PM IST For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from southwestern US to the Caribbean and parts of South America. So how could a handful of ...
Why scientists were surprised to find life under Antarctic ice shelf | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readMar 22, 2025 07:30 AM IST A team of scientists may have discovered dozens of new species, including giant sea spiders, octopi, and corals on the newly exposed seafloor left behind by the enormous A-84 iceberg that broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf on January ...
Grok AI Tone: Why does Grok talk like that? Partially because of the books it read
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 23, 2025 10:14 PM IST Elon Musk Grok AI: The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has been abuzz in India for the past week over the responses its built-in AI chatbot, Grok 3, has been giving. Apart from its politically colourful replies, Grok ...
How secure is Signal, app Trump team used to share war plans? | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 26, 2025 01:17 PM IST Top Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to share war plans and accidentally included The Atlantic magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg in the encrypted group chat. Goldberg published a first-hand account on Monday detailing a discussion that happened ...
Why Martian dust may pose health risks to astronauts | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 27, 2025 12:11 PM IST Martian dust is likely to cause respiratory issues and an elevated risk of disease among astronauts, according to a new study. It found that the fine particles of the dust could penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the ...
Europe’s space agency retires Gaia, the cartographer of the cosmos: Its mission & significance | Explained News
[ad_1] 5 min readMumbaiUpdated: Mar 27, 2025 09:04 PM IST The European Space Agency (ESA) shut down its space observatory mission, Gaia on Thursday (March 27). Launched into space over a decade ago, Gaia has been instrumental in charting the Milky Way galaxy, revealing its past and estimating its future. ...
Myanmar struck by powerful earthquake, what caused the quake?
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 28, 2025 07:20 PM IST Myanmar Earthquake: Earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and at least three aftershocks struck Myanmar on Friday (March 28), according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), topping buildings in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, and bringing down a skyscraper under ...
Why Myanmar is frequently rocked by earthquakes | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readUpdated: Mar 30, 2025 12:45 PM IST A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 and at least six aftershocks struck central Myanmar on Friday, bringing buildings down in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, and killing at least 1,600 people as of Sunday. Neighbouring Thailand was also affected: an ...
Solar Eclipse 2025: What is a partial solar eclipse? | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 29, 2025 07:07 PM IST On Saturday (March 29), a part of the sun will be obscured by the moon’s shadow, in a partial solar eclipse. When and where will today’s eclipse be visible? The eclipse is expected to begin at approximately 2:20:43 PM ...
