THE PAPACY OF A REFORMIST

THE PAPACY OF A REFORMIST

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, became the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013. Known for his humility and progressive views, he focused on issues such as climate change, poverty, and interfaith dialogue. On April 21, 2025, the Vatican...
K2-18B : A LIVING PLANET

K2-18B : A LIVING PLANET

K2-18 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. It takes 32.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1429 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2015. A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an...
GENOME INDIA PROJECT

GENOME INDIA PROJECT

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has created the national resource data of whole genome sequencing of 10,074 healthy individuals from 83 heterogeneous populations from 99 different sites under the Genome India project to create a library of genetic...
THE WALLACE LINE  

THE WALLACE LINE  

The Wallace Line is an imaginary line that intersects the Lombok Strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok to the south, and extends north through the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sulawesi.  Wallace’s Line is not a static boundary—it...