January 2026

Freedom at Midnight Season 2 returns with a more visceral and intense exploration of the months that changed India forever. The historical drama, created and directed by Nikkhil Advani, revisits the years following India’s independence in 1947, when freedom came alongside pain, political chaos, and irrevocable decisions. Coming soon to Sony LIV, Season 2 will feature …

A new neuromorphic “electronic skin” developed by scientists in Hong Kong brings robots closer to human-like touch and pain perception. The layered e-skin converts pressure into neural-style pulses, distinguishing gentle contact from harmful force. When pressure exceeds a pain threshold, the system bypasses the main processor to trigger instant reflexes, protectin…

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered SPT-CL J2215-3537, a massive galaxy cluster located 8.4 billion light-years away. Nicknamed the “Champagne Supernova” cluster, it is the most distant relaxed cluster ever observed, showing no signs of recent collisions. Its calm structure and active star formation challenge existing theories abou…

Skywatchers will be treated to a striking celestial event on January 3, 2026, as the Wolf Moon rises as a supermoon near Earth’s perihelion. Appearing larger and brighter than usual, the full Moon will climb the eastern sky at dusk, accompanied by the brilliant planet Jupiter. This rare alignment—last seen more than a century ago—offers a vivid start to the year…

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby dwarf galaxy glowing with star birth. Just 160,000 light-years away, it hosts vast nebulae like the Tarantula and historic events such as Supernova 1987A, offering astronomers a rare, close-up laboratory to study how stars form, evolve, and explode.

Scientists using a quantum-powered haloscope have advanced the search for dark matter axions by probing higher mass ranges than before. The QUAX collaboration’s experiment, based in Italy, uses a microwave cavity and a strong magnetic field to detect faint axion signals. While no axions were found, the results help refine future dark matter searches.