World In 1925, a Kansas farm boy built his own telescope from scratch. Five years later, his homemade astronomy led him to discover Pluto | September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Long before Clyde Tombaugh was searching the skies from an observatory in Arizona, he was a farm boy trying to make sense of the night above his family’s home. The…
World Australian high school students collected more than 2,000 plastic bottles to form a greenhouse, 11 years later, the structure supplies food for the school’s garden September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A project that began as an ecological lesson has transformed the lives of students at an Australian high school. In the country’s capital of Canberra, students at the Richardson Primary…
World Meet Aditi Paudel, a 17-year-old high school student appointed as Japan’s first literacy ambassador September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Born in Japan, and raised in Nepal during her early childhood, Aditi Paudel had always shown an affinity towards reading. Her earliest memory of reading is of her grandfather handing…
World A YouTuber spent 4 years helping strangers find lost relatives; then a DNA test gave him a 22.7% match with a 66-year-old Texas woman who turned out to be his long-lost sister September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Blair Clark and his wife Leah and details of DNA testing kit from MyHeritage. Blair Clark and his wife Leah have spent more than four years on their YouTube show,…
World Scientists discover how snails turn mucus into five different materials using calcium, collagen VI and changing protein levels | September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com PC: By Cepaea_nemoralis/Wikipedia Snails may move slowly, but the mucus they produce is far more sophisticated than it looks. It has been revealed how grove snails can fine-tune this sticky…
World Scientists use robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific to discover huge lava fields around an active underwater volcano | September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com More than two kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, off the coast of Oregon, an active underwater volcano has been hiding one of the strangest landscapes ever mapped on…
World Melinda French Gates’ father worked on NASA’s Apollo missions; the women engineers she met at his company picnics shaped her thinking | World News September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Melinda French Gates grew up in a household where science, engineering and education were closely woven into family life. Her father, Raymond Joseph French Jr., was an aerospace engineer whose…
World ‘The flood is on its way’: How 400 Nepal students escaped in time September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A school bag is full of mud brought in by the recent flash floods, at the Shree Bagheswori Madhyamik School in Nepal. (Photo: AP) Morning assembly was about to begin…
World Scientists used geothermal drill-hole temperatures in Oregon’s Cascades and found at least 81 cubic kilometres of water hidden in volcanic rock, nearly 3 times Lake Mead’s capacity September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Oregon’s Cascade Range(Representative image by Canva) Beneath the forested slopes of Oregon’s Cascade Range, scientists have uncovered a vast, hidden reservoir of water locked inside volcanic rock. By analysing temperature…
World Sea Otters were successfully reintroduced in Canada after their extinction due to fur trade, protecting the kelp populations; but now they are threatening a ‘local delicacy’ September 1, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com The reintroduction and success of sea otters in British Columbia was a story that initially satisfied everyone including conservationists and the natives. The adorable creatures once occupied much of Canada’s…
