Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger’s heroics in the penalty shootout helped Germany beat France and book a semifinal spot in the Women’s European Championships in Basel, Switzerland. She had the save of the tournament so far, two stops in the penalty shootout and a successful spot kick of her own in the match which had ended 1-1…
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is usually known as a frozen “ice giant.” But in July 2025 astronomers announced a big surprise: Uranus is actually emitting more heat than it receives from sunlight. Decades of data and new models show Uranus emits about 12% more internal heat than it gets from the Sun….
A maiden international half-century by Rubin Hermann took South Africa to a seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe in their T20I tri-series match at Harare Sports Club on Sunday. The left-handed Hermann hit 63 off 36 balls as South Africa chased down a target of 145 with 16 balls to spare. Defeat ended Zimbabwe’s hopes of playing…
Google recently scheduled its annual Made by Google event for August 20 where it is expected to debut its next-generation hardware innovations. Among the expected launches is the Pixel Watch 4. While previous reports suggested the lack of major hardware changes, the upcoming Google smartwatch could bring additional health tracking capabilities. A new report claims that…
England defender Jess Carter says she has been subject to racial abuse online at the Women’s European Championship. Carter came in for a lot of criticism for her performance during England’s opening loss to France. And some of that has crossed the line even as the 27-year-old and the Lionesses have reached the semifinals at…
Samsung released its Android 16-based operating system (OS) dubbed One UI 8 with its latest Galaxy Z series foldables. It is soon expected to make its way to other handsets too, with beta testing ongoing. According to a report, the One UI 8 Beta 4 for the Galaxy S25 series was spotted on the tech…
Smriti Mandhana acknowledged that competing at Lord’s turned out to be a tough test for India batters, who could not adapt to the testing conditions and were indiscreet in their shot selection during the second One-day against England. After making a strong start to the series with a four-wicket in the opening match at Southampton,…
Using a new technique based on magnetic-wave analysis, scientists have, for the first time, discovered lithium in the atmosphere of Mercury. Published in Nature Communications, the study constitutes the first detection of lithium around the smallest planet in our solar system. The exosphere of Mercury, Unlike thickened atmospheres, the thin shell of particles that constitutes…
Swimmer Srihari Nataraj continued his record-breaking spree on Sunday as he bettered the ‘Best Indian Performance’ in men’s 100m freestyle, clocking 49.46 seconds to qualify for the semifinals at the World University Games in Berlin. Nataraj erased Guangzhou Asian Games bronze medallist Virdhawal Khade’s long-standing mark of 49.47 seconds set way back in 2008 from…
NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a striking new picture of the large galaxy cluster Abell 209, 2.8 billion light-years from us in the Cetus constellation. The enormous cluster contains over 100 galaxies held together by gravity, but what is seen is only half the tale. Underneath the shining galaxies is a tangled web of…