A meteorite impact in northern Arizona may have caused a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon about 56,000 years ago, altering the course of the Colorado River and forming a now-vanished paleolake. Researchers found driftwood and lake sediments in Stanton’s Cave, which sits within Marble Canyon, joining a body of evidence that the river was…
There was another moment of controversy during an encounter at Lord’s between England and India on Saturday when opener Tammy Beaumont was ruled not out for obstructing the field. The incident took place during the fifth over of England’s chase of 144. Beaumont worked a delivery by Deepti Sharma into the leg-side, where it was…
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that is being fried by the radiation from its parent star. The study determined that the star plan is getting extended so fast that it must be evaporating, losing more than 10 times the mass of Jupiter every billion years. This baby world is…
England Women beat India Women by eight wickets (by DLS method) in the second Women’s One-Day International at Lord’s on Saturday to level the three-match series 1–1. In a rain-marred 29-over match, the host chased down a revised target of 115 with 18 balls to spare. Openers Tammy Beaumont (34) and Amy Jones (46) laid…
Astronomers call ancient star clusters like NGC 1786 “time capsules” for their galaxy, preserving some of its oldest stars. A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope offers an unprecedented close-up of this dense cluster 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble’s data show that NGC 1786 contains stars of different ages –…
Sixth-ranked Zheng Qinwen of China has undergone arthroscopic surgery on her right elbow after experiencing “persistent pain” for several months. The 22-year-old Olympic champion, who lost in the first round at Wimbledon to Katerina Siniakova, said on Saturday the surgery was a success. “Over the past months, I’ve been dealing with persistent pain in my…
Brookhaven’s sPHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has reported its first physics measurements of gold-ion collisions. Designed for heavy-ion experiments, sPHENIX recorded precision counts of thousands of charged particles and their energies from head-on gold–gold impacts. These early results confirm the detector’s performance and pave the way for its main mission: exploring…
Koneru Humpy registered a crucial win while R. Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh and Harika Dronavalli played out draws in Game 1 of the quarterfinals at the FIDE Women’s World Cup in Batumi, Georgia, on Saturday. Humpy, playing with white pieces, took down China’s Yuxin Song in the first classical game and only needs a draw on…
Lava Blaze Dragon is confirmed to launch in India in July. Notably, the Lava Blaze AMOLED 2 will also be unveiled in the country in the same month, the company has revealed. The launch date for the Lava Blaze Dragon has been announced alongside its design and availability details. Meanwhile, the leaked details for the…
The word regulatory has been dropped but the upcoming Sports Governance Bill is set to institutionalise a National Sports Board (NSB), appointed entirely by the central government, with sweeping powers to suspend recognition of federations based on complaints or “its own motion” for violations ranging from electoral irregularities to financial misappropriation. The bill, due to…