It was a moonless night when three friends—Ayaan, Leela, and Rafi slipped out of their small town and pedaled their bikes into the thick woods that bordered the river. The air was still, filled only with the rhythmic hum of crickets and the occasional snap of twigs under their wheels....
No one knew exactly when it began. Some said it happened overnight; others believed it had been slowly unfolding in the background for years. The moment the world blinked awake, the sky had already changed color, painted with millions of faint glowing squares that shimmered like digital constellations. Screens, windows,...
In the not-so-distant future, in a city that floated above the clouds called Luminara, lived a boy named Arel—a dreamer with ink-stained fingers and eyes that sparkled with curiosity. Luminara was a place of glowing skyscrapers and digital skies, powered by AI and neon circuits. But beneath all its shine,...
“Science is not only about the stars in the sky—it’s about finding the stars within us.” – Dr. Zareen Hasan, Mission J-9 Commander The Secret Launch Mabrur Alam was no ordinary 14-year-old from Dhaka. He lived in a quiet flat in Mirpur with his mother, a teacher, and his grandmother,...
The year was 2097. Earth was no longer alone in the cosmos—not in knowledge, at least. After decades of robotic probes, space telescopes, and Martian colonies, humanity’s gaze turned farther—toward Saturn’s enigmatic moon, Titan. Beneath its thick orange haze, scientists suspected, might lie alien life. Not the kind in movies...
Shahed Rahman pressed his gloved hand against the glass dome of the observation deck aboard the ‘Mawaddah’, the first deep-space Islamic research ship ever built. Saturn loomed in the blackness—its golden rings glowing with quiet magnificence. But it wasn’t Saturn that captivated him. It was what lay beneath one of...
Mars Station Delta-9. Fourteen-year-old Rafi Khan, a young science prodigy from the Lunar Academy, was selected for a junior expedition to Delta-9, along with other gifted teens. Their goal: to study strange underground patterns beneath the Martian surface detected by seismic scans. But no one expected what they’d find buried...
Cox’s Bazar was once the brightest place on Earth. Tourists came from all over the world to see the golden beach, the gentle blue waves, and the glowing sunrise over the sea. But one morning, the sun didn’t rise. People waited and waited. The sky remained dark. Birds didn’t sing....
It was just an ordinary Tuesday, or at least it seemed that way. Ethan sat in his room, staring out the window. The clouds, which were once his canvas for daydreams, now just seemed like a collection of random shapes. But today was different. He could feel something odd in...
Where the future was always just a heartbeat away, two brothers—Rishad and Masum—were about to change the world. Identical twins with a shared love for science and faith, they were fascinated by the challenge of time management. Waking up for Fajr prayer, studying at the right intervals, taking breaks for...
The sun turns once a month and the Earth once a day, but a white dwarf star 2,000 light-years away spins every 25 seconds, beating the old champ by five seconds. That makes it the fastest-spinning star of any sort ever seen — unless you consider such exotic objects as...
A very large international team of researchers has compiled and performed phylogenetic and phylogeographic analysis on massive amounts of data related to testing people in Africa for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The results are published in Science. The global pandemic has been underway for almost two years, and during that time, many...
When a person breaks a leg, they might get a splint, cast or boot to cradle the bone as it heals. But what happens when a locust breaks a limb? Instead of a cast on the outside, the insect will patch itself up from the inside. These patches can restore...
“Children, I have a special announcement, I need you all to listen very carefully”. Shahina Zaman declared, thumping the white-board-eraser on her desk. Thirty- two pairs of curious little eyes were fixed on Shahina, eager to know what the teacher had to say: “Dear students, over the next one month,...
Time. 10:19 p.m. South Florida. The traffic light rests at red for an eternity, mocking me with its condescending gaze. I quickly turned my head both directions, not a car in sight for what it seemed to be miles. Is this some kind of joke? Looking into the rear view...
These orderly patterns of dark blue dots indicate where individual chlorine atoms are missing from an otherwise regular grid of atoms. Scientists manipulated these vacancies to create a supersmall data storage device. The locations of vacancies encode bits of information in the device, which Sander Otte of Delft University of Technology in...
Any parent trying to hustle a school-bound kid out the door in the morning knows that her child’s skull possesses a strange and powerful form of black magic: It can repel parents’ voices. Important messages like “find your shoes” bounce off the impenetrable fortress and drift unheeded to the floor....
Scientists suspected that the eye-twitchy, dream-packed slumber known as rapid eye movement sleep was important for memory. But REM sleep’s influence on memory has been hard to study, in part because scientists often resorted to waking people or animals up — a stressful experience that might influence memory in different...
The workshop’s bright interior felt like a sauna after the numbing midwinter cold outdoors. The old man immediately took off his fur-lined hat and gloves and started unfastening the buttons of his greatcoat. His workers glanced up from benches and forge upon his entrance, but they took too much pride...
Anya’s earworm was malfunctioning. There could be no other explanation for what she was feeling: she had caught herself several times humming the melody of a tune that wasn’t her graduation song. Just this morning at breakfast, her fingers had developed an impromptu twitch, tapping out an unfamiliar rhythm on...
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