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Researchers have created a mouse with a partly human brain

Published on Sept 17, 2026 06:41 pm IST

This side view of a lab mouse brain shows nerve fibres extending from a human graft through the mouse brain, coloured with green and red fluorescent proteins, while the mouse brain is coloured blue.

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A new device lets severely paralysed patients communicate more effectively

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A new paper by Dr Chang’s group, published in Nature Neuroscience, describes the passing of another milestone. He and his colleagues have enabled two severely paralysed people to communicate with them, by means of an avatar, using both words and gestures.

Published on Sept 15, 2026 06:20 pm IST

How to cool buildings on the cheap

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A group at University College, London (UCL), led by Ioannis Papakonstantinou, has painted the tops of two buses with material that reflects 93% of sunlight.

Published on Sept 09, 2026 04:07 pm IST

Satellites get a new type of armour

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Roughly one small satellite in five stops working within a year of launch, estimates a study published in 2021, and in three-fifths of these cases operators do not know what happened.

Published on Sept 08, 2026 06:37 pm IST

Should you avoid blue light before bed?

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Light from screens often has a lot of blue in its spectrum, leading some to suggest that blue is to blame for poor kip.

Published on Sept 05, 2026 08:34 am IST

Humble exoskeletons work better than combat supersuits

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Exoskeletons, as strength-amplifying rigs of this sort are known, are a staple of science-fiction films,

Published on Sept 03, 2026 08:27 pm IST

NASA’s latest mission to map the cosmos takes off

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the Nancy Grace Roman space telescoe lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Augst 30, 2026. NASA launched its new flagship space telescope on Sunday, embarking on a multi-year mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in physics.

Published on Sept 03, 2026 07:27 pm IST

A suspicious signal in a dark-matter detector has physicists excited

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This handout image obtained and released on March 18, 2025 by the ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA shows space telescope Euclid�s new image of examples of galaxies in different shapes, during Euclid first observations of the Deep Field areas. On March 19, 2025, the European space telescope Euclid, a veritable �detective of the dark universe� aided by AI and humans, delivered the first data from a mission designed to help unravel the mystery of dark matter and dark energy.

Published on Sept 03, 2026 05:27 pm IST

How salmon evolved to cope with the ice age

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Their odd behaviour seems to be a relic of the time of the glaciers

Published on Aug 27, 2026 03:00 pm IST

How I got hooked on chasing solar eclipses

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‘It was glorious,’ said a witness to the Aug. 12 celestial experience. ‘For me, there is something sacred about the eclipse. It’s the face of God I don’t believe in.’

Published on Aug 23, 2026 06:30 pm IST

Rock-solid evidence for the origins of birds

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Lots of dinosaurs had stones, known as gastroliths, in their stomachs.

Published on Aug 20, 2026 09:09 pm IST

Scientists got a lettuce to make meat protein: Its science & why it matters

Myoglobin is the molecule that plant-based meats have struggled hardest to replicate.

Updated on Aug 07, 2026 07:00 pm IST

A bipartisan coalition is taking aim at animal research

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The campaign to end research on animals has forged one of the most eclectic coalitions in American politics.

Published on Aug 07, 2026 07:40 am IST

An old SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the Moon

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The rocket stage is one of thousands that have been discarded after completing their one and only flight.

Published on Aug 06, 2026 06:10 pm IST

How to trap antimatter in a canister

Some of the 1232 dipole magnets that bend the path of accelerated protons are pictured in the Large Hadron Collider in a tunnel of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Echenevex, France. (AFP File)

Published on Aug 05, 2026 07:18 am IST

Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers

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Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers

Published on Jul 31, 2026 07:12 pm IST

AI and quantum computers will be frenemies

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The most promising use-case for quantum computers is simulating quantum mechanics itself

Updated on Jul 31, 2026 05:27 pm IST

How big is America’s “obesity penalty”?

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Metabolic measures, such as blood sugar and cholesterol, improve.

Published on Jul 27, 2026 07:21 pm IST

Your Mouth Could Hold the Secrets to a Longer and Healthier Life

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The emerging science poses a challenge for healthcare, given the traditional divide between medicine and dentistry—fields that have long been divided by separate training, records and insurance systems.

Published on Jul 27, 2026 04:26 pm IST

GLP-1 diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of hair loss: Study

(GLP-1) receptor agonists are increasingly prescribed for the management of type 2 diabetes and, more recently, for obesity treatment in populations without diabetes.

Published on Jul 23, 2026 04:30 am IST

The surprising benefits of red light

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REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Faster wound-healing is just one of the proposed uses of photobiomodulation (PBM), as therapies that use red and infrared light as the agent are known.

Published on Jul 21, 2026 03:30 pm IST

Is instant delivery of satellites possible?

Bengaluru-based startup Gimbal Space wants to create plug-and-play satellite components (Photo courtesy: Gimbal Space)

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 03:21 pm IST

Sky no longer the limit: Vikram-1 launch is a leap for India's pvt space sector

India's first private orbital rocket Vikram-1 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh,

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:15 pm IST

Smoke, AQI at 600, wildfires & floods: What's fuelling weather chaos in America

(Left) People walk and bike in Brooklyn Bridge Park as wildfire smoke from Canada causes hazy conditions in New York; Flooding as heavy rains and severe weather hit Kerrville, Texas,

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:17 pm IST

The rate at which Earth is absorbing energy is alarming climate scientists

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The amount of sunshine reflected is known as the albedo. This is going down. Everything not reflected is absorbed, so the energy absorbed is going up.

Published on Jul 16, 2026 03:07 pm IST

93 hrs/yr in Chennai: Warmer nights are stealing sleep, South losing the most

Residents sleep on the roof of their home near Versova Beach to escape the oppressive indoor heat amid hot and humid conditions in Mumbai

Updated on Jul 16, 2026 11:39 am IST

Thousands with ‘explosive’ diarrhoea: The parasite that loves veggies & fruits

Microscopic image provided by the CDC shows cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts found in a stool sample, which had been prepared with a formalin solution and stained with safranin.

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:18 pm IST

The big-stakes fight to save pygmy hog, the world's tiniest wild pig

There are just few hundred pygmy hogs left in the wild today.

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:22 pm IST

SpaceX lands on legs, China on a net: How will Isro's reusable rocket come home?

Isro's winged vehicle in the RLV programme.

Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:22 pm IST

The world is making heady progress in the fight against dementia

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Instead of confirming the received wisdom that America faced an intensifying plague of the condition, they showed that the proportion of old people succumbing to it was in fact shrinking fast.

Published on Jul 10, 2026 07:31 pm IST

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