A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America
Image of the Day for July 22, 2026 Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts of the U.S. and Canada.…
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
It’s been a big year for AI acquisitions — so big that most of them barely register anymore. Anthropic and OpenAI have each gone on buying sprees, snapping up developer tooling, AI services shops, and…
Punjab Governor Kataria: ‘Drug trafficking cannot flourish without police, administration connivance’
Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria is set to mark two years in office on July 31. He had been a BJP veteran in Rajasthan, where he had handled multiple roles in the…
Unease in BJP, allies over crackdown on protesters as government signals outreach
A day after thousands of youths stormed central Delhi as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led march to Parliament ran into police and security personnel, who used lathi-charge and tear gas shells to push them back,…
Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
In Brief Posted: 6:27 PM PDT · July 21, 2026 While many newer VC firms are still struggling to raise fresh capital, Dimension Capital, founded in late 2022, has been raising increasingly larger funds in…
How Modi faces his first broad-based protest ever — not one by specific interest groups
With crowds sustaining at Jantar Mantar a day after the police crackdown on the Cockroach Janta Party’s Parliament march on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces for the first time a broad-based protest movement –…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Image Addition Date:07/21/2026 Downloads NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica PNG (43.77 MB) PIA26617 Figure A JPEG (29.10 MB) Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was…