Grand National Olive Gala 2025 Islamabad

2025 Grand National Olive Gala, Islamabad. Photo: Mohsin Rasheed

From 12 to 14 December 2025, Islamabad witnessed a vibrant and encouraging celebration of Pakistan’s olive industry at the National Olive Festival. The three day event attracted olive growers, farmers, producers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and visitors from across the country. The festival was jointly organized by the Pak Olive Project under the Ministry of National Food … Read more

USTC Repeg: A Credible Path, A Community Plan, and How to Earn While You Wait on Uniswap (Ethereum)

the total of USTC burned, November 2025.

USTC Repeg: Plan, Psychology & Uniswap Strategy (Ethereum) If you’ve watched USTC for a while, you know the math is only half the story. The other half is psychology -how crowds behave when a clear narrative and a practical “what to do right now” converge. This article has two goals. First, it lays out a … Read more

Invisible Poison in the Air: How Gold Mining Is Contaminating African Food Crops

Gold mining in Nigeria. Photo by Dame Yinka. Source: Wikimedia Commons

A new study has revealed something both surprising and alarming: the food people grow near small gold mining sites in Africa is being contaminated — not through the soil as scientists long believed, but directly from the air. This discovery, published in the journal Biogeosciences by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), shows that mercury — … Read more

Metal, Mind, and Molecules: The Story Behind the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

nobel prize chemistry 2025. Illustration: nobelprize.org

On 8 October 2025 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley). The trio was honoured “for the development of metal–organic frameworks” (MOFs) — a family of crystalline, porous materials that chemists today … Read more

2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine Honors Discoveries That Unlocked the Body’s Immune “Brakes”

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The Announcement The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their pioneering discoveries that explain how the immune system learns to restrain itself — a process scientists call peripheral immune tolerance. The trio’s work uncovered the biological mechanisms that stop the immune … Read more

Nobel Prize 2025 in Physics: The Experiments That Made the Quantum World Visible

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 Winners. Photo: Nobel Prize

In a decision that underscores how fundamental physics can become the engine of new technologies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Their … Read more

Turning Back the Quantum Clock: How Physicists Made Time Reversal Practical

Time reveral. Photo: AI

In a groundbreaking development, researchers at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna have unveiled a universal quantum rewinding protocol capable of reversing the state of a quantum system with an arbitrarily high probability of success. This discovery, published in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, could reshape our understanding … Read more

New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus with NASA’s Webb Telescope

This image shows the moon, designated S/2025 U1, as well as 13 of the 28 other known moons orbiting the planet. Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. El Moutamid (SwRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho)

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered an exciting new member of Uranus’ family of satellites. A team of scientists led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting the ice giant, raising the total number of known Uranian moons to 29. The discovery was made on February 2, … Read more

The Atomic Shadow: Science and History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

80 years ago, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima stirred awake like any other summer day. Children walked to school, shopkeepers opened shutters, and workers crossed bridges unaware that within minutes, their world would be unrecognizable. At exactly 8:15 a.m., a new chapter of human history was written in blinding … Read more