Science

Nepal’s Devastating Flash Floods: What Went Wrong?
Several videos showing the Nepal disaster on August 26, 2026, are going viral online. Among them, the first and earliest footage is CCTV footage from the Chinese border, capturing the tragedy at 8:42 (NST) that morning.
By Krishna Babu Shresthaa day ago in Earth
I Spent My Childhood Trying to Swat One Fly. Here’s Why I Never Could.
Why You Can Never Swat a Fly 1 I believed insects had eyes in the backs of their heads. Summer. Yard. A fly on the table corner, wings open. I crouched, held my breath, moved my palm closer. Then I slapped down.
By Jina day ago in Earth
He Was Reassigned to Equine Science. Then He Became China’s Only Undergraduate Farrier.
One When Fu Huadong got the call from admissions, he had already accepted that he might not go to college. He scored 522 on the gaokao. He applied to Sports Rehabilitation and checked “do not accept adjustment.” His score fell short. His file came back. He lost his spot. Then the phone rang. Would he accept a transfer to Equine Science? He said yes.
By Jina day ago in Earth
Are trees in the Himalaya marching uphill?
It was summer 2008, and we were in Cholangpati at an elevation of 3500 m a.s.l., a few hours of steep and difficult climbing from Dhunche on the way to Gosaikunda.
By Krishna Babu Shrestha2 days ago in Earth
They Dumped 20,000 Fish Into a River and Called It Kindness
An animal-release group in Guangzhou found the official reporting rules too strict. The group released 20,000 mud carp directly into a river. One person said, “Why should doing a good deed require a report?”
By Jin3 days ago in Earth
Autumn: A Season of Painted Landscape
Whenever September and October arrive, I always find myself feeling nostalgic. I start my travels carrying with me the memories and experiences from my childhood and youth back home in Nepal.
By Krishna Babu Shrestha4 days ago in Earth
Evolution Against Entropy: Why the Universe Builds Instead of Breaking
• • • Here is a paradox that sits at the heart of modern physics, and it is one that most people have never noticed. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase. Entropy increases. Engines wear down. Bodies age. Stars burn out. Organized structures do not last forever. This is one of the most firmly established laws in all of science.
By Han Elucidation5 days ago in Earth
The Galaxy Is Silent. Maybe That’s Not Empty Space.
At 3:17 a.m., a radio telescope in a dry basin records a flat line. The screen is black except for a thin green trace and a column of numbers. A paper cup sits beside the keyboard. The coffee inside has gone cold and formed a dark ring on the bottom. The technician watches the trace for eleven minutes. Nothing rises above the noise floor. She types a note, saves the file, and moves to the next frequency band.
By Jin9 days ago in Earth
Earth Isn’t Late to the Universe. It Arrived Right on Time.
1. The Time Gap Is Not 3.7 Billion Years The universe is about 13.8 billion years old. Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
By Jin10 days ago in Earth
We Lost 11.3 Trillion Tonnes of Ice in 44 Years. Greenland Is Why It’s Worse Than It Sounds.
What 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice means From 1979 to 2023, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets together lost about 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice. The study was completed by the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) team. It draws on 27 satellite missions and 42 independent estimates. It was published in Scientific Data , a Nature sub-journal.
By Jin12 days ago in Earth
The Earth Is Not a Sponge: Why the Oceans Don't Drain Into the Planet
Rain falls into soil and disappears. A river seeps into its bed and disappears. The sea strikes the shore, slips into cracks, and disappears. If this kept up forever, the planet's water should dwindle. The oceans are still here. The waves are still here. The monsoon is still here. The water has not vanished.
By Jin13 days ago in Earth
They Can Dive 70 Meters Without Gear. The Law Says They Don’t Exist.
At five in the morning, the sky was not yet fully light. Amir pushed the lepa boat out from the shore. The wooden hull scraped across the sand of the shallows with a dry, rasping sound. He stood barefoot on the boat’s planks, his toes gripping the grain of the wood as if gripping a familiar stone. There was no diving equipment on board. No fins, no tank, no wetsuit. Only a pair of wooden goggles, the lenses old plastic, the edges wrapped in tape, and a spear gun, its shaft forged by a blacksmith, its head bound with rubber bands.
By Jin13 days ago in Earth