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Children’s books illustrators Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Aindri Chakraborty are addressing themes like discrimination and climate change sensitively

Children’s books illustrators Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Aindri Chakraborty are addressing themes like discrimination and climate change sensitively

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Illustrators Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Aindri Chakraborty tackle gender, racism, climate change, discrimination and more in their books, proving not all ‘woke’ books are contentious Illustrators Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Aindri Chakraborty tackle gender, racism, climate change, discrimination and more in their books, proving not all ‘woke’ books are contentious As a writer of children’s […]

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NASA poised for historic Artemis I lunar launch from Florida

NASA poised for historic Artemis I lunar launch from Florida

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A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant leap in its renewed lunar ambitions with the […]

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Earth sets record for shortest day as it speeds up rotation

Earth sets record for shortest day as it speeds up rotation

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Sometimes, we just can’t wait for the day to get over fast enough and it seems like the planet we live on agrees sometimes. The Earth has set the record for the shortest day ever recorded since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotational speed. On June 29, our planet completed one rotation […]

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‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid, twice Burj Khalifa’s size, to fly past Earth on May 27

‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid, twice Burj Khalifa’s size, to fly past Earth on May 27

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A ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, which is twice the size of the Burj Khalifa and four times the Empire State Building will zip past Earth on Friday, according to NASA’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies. The asteroid, named 1989 JA, is estimated to be 1.1 miles long, two kilometres wide and is travelling at a […]

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