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Five SRM Univ.-AP professors featured in Stanford's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list for 2023. Congrats to Karthik Rajendran (energy, biotechnology), Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian (earth, environmental sciences), Randhir Kumar, Kshira Sagar Sahoo & Divya Chaturvedi (ICT) for their research achievements. Last year, Univ. faculty also made the list.

When you hear the word comet, you might imagine a bright streak moving across the sky. You may have a family member who saw a comet before you were born, or you may have seen one yourself when comet Nishimura passed by Earth in September 2023. But what are these…

In today’s newsletter: With Paris under siege by these tiny, blood-sucking terrors, many on the other side of the Channel are wondering if they’re next – and what can be done

Another strong earthquake shook part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier quake killed more than 2,000 and flattened whole villages.

Some birds rely on magnetic fields to fly — and a new study unpacks how that makes them vulnerable to space weather

"Please do not let me leave this earth without justice," Hughes Van Ellis said in 2021, the centennial of the racist violence that destroyed a thriving community once known as Black Wall Street.

There is growing consensus that our planet is likely to pass the 1.5℃ warming threshold. Research even suggests global warming will temporarily exceed the 2℃ threshold, if atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) peaks at levels beyond what was anticipated.

Tens of millions in the Americas are getting front-row seats for a rare “ring of fire” eclipse of the sun

September 2023 was the warmest ever recorded according to the EU Climate Service, with Earth’s average surface air temperature peaking at 16.38°C. The average global temperature was also at least 1.5°C higher than pre-industrial levels on about a third of days in 2023, according to another recent report.