The city was called Veritas, and from above it looked like a living circuit board that silver roads glowing softly at night, towers breathing light, rivers humming with quiet energy. People said Veritas was not powered by electricity alone, but by something rarer: truth. Junaid had grown up hearing that...
At dawn, Char Kukri Mukri looked like it always had—flat land stitched with muddy paths, mangrove shadows stretching like tired fingers, the Bay of Bengal breathing in slow, salty waves. But beneath the quiet surface, something new was waking up. Something alive. Arif Rahman stood on the roof of his...
Mahan never believed in miracles—especially not the kind that smelled faintly of rust and chalk dust. Yet the old locker at the far end of Corridor C, number 108, had started humming again. He noticed it first on a dull Tuesday morning, when the rain tapped like impatient fingers on...
By 2040, the world was running out of time. The oceans were warmer than ever, turning clear blue waters into dull green soup. Forests were shrinking like old maps left out in the rain. Even bees—tiny heroes of nature were disappearing. Adults had spent decades arguing in fancy conferences, signing...
The rain had just stopped when 15-year-old Hamim ducked into a narrow alley, shaking water from his hair. The sign above the tiny shop flickered in blue neon: “Timekeeper’s Treasures – Books, Relics & Oddities.” It looked like something from another century. Inside, the air smelled of dust and old...
The wind on Pluto didn’t behave like wind on Earth. It wasn’t air, it was frozen whispers of nitrogen, gliding over the icy plains like ghosts. Beneath that twilight sky, where the Sun was just a pale star, Captain Lyra Vex tightened her magnetic gloves and stepped onto the deck...
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,...
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