Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment tested obedience, where participants believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The answer,…
Earlier, they held hands with each other; now, they raise them to kill one of their own. Ngogo chimpanzees, the world’s largest known group of wild chimpanzees who were once a close-knit community have been engaged in an eight-year-long vicious ‘civil war’ as per a recent research published in the journal Science. The group has…
Quote of the day by Nikola Tesla It may seem strange to think deeply and slow down in a world where speed is often seen as a sign of success. But some of the most important inventions in history weren’t made quickly. They were carefully planned, improved, and polished long before they became real. This…
Nasa scientists tracking the movement of Apollo 13 (Image/Nasa) For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 days.The crew’s journey combined scientific exploration, technical testing and human endurance: a…
Indian-American space scientist Amit Kshatriya holds a senior leadership position at Nasa, an agency that has recently completed the Artemis II mission, a significant step in its renewed human lunar exploration programme.The Artemis II mission, a crewed lunar flyby, concluded with astronauts returning safely after a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, California at…
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely identified as the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, could instead be explained by an extremely dense concentration of dark matter. The idea challenges the long-standing interpretation based on observations of fast-moving stars near the galactic core, which…
An AI-generated image shows four Artemis II astronauts in front of a green screen Astronauts from Artemis II may have safely returned after completing their lunar mission, but that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from spinning fresh claims. Hashtags such as “fake space” and “fake NASA” have gained traction online since the lunar fly-by sent the…
It can be rather soothing to hear singing birds throughout the day, even more so if you can hear them from inside your house. While it might seem like just an enjoyable experience, studies suggest that there is more to it than meets the eye when it comes to its impact on your psychological state….
The BBC recreated the controversial 1974 Stanford prison experiment in The Experiment to explore human obedience/ screengrab Youtube The idea of recreating one of psychology’s most controversial experiments for television should have been unworkable from the outset. When the BBC announced in 2002 that it would run a controlled prison simulation as a documentary series,…
Scientists have found a new species of mahogany in Zanzibar. This represents a significant finding for those working on rare forests in East Africa. But there is an ominous warning that only 30 adult trees of this new mahogany species exist in the wild. This means that the newly found plant has been critically endangered…
