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How I got hooked on chasing solar eclipses

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Published on Aug 23, 2026 06:30 pm IST
‘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.’
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Rock-solid evidence for the origins of birds

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Lots of dinosaurs had stones, known as gastroliths, in their stomachs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Published on Aug 05, 2026 07:18 am IST

Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers

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Quantum computers promise mathematical superpowers
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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
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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.
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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.
science
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.
health
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.
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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)
science
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,
india news
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,
world news
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.
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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
india news
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.
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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.
india news
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.
india news
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.
health
Published on Jul 10, 2026 07:31 pm IST

After SpaceX, China lands rocket booster with hooks, net: How the tech differs

People watch as a Long March 10B carrier rocket takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, before returning vertically to an offshore platform for a controlled recovery, in Hainan province, China
world news
Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:24 pm IST

How the biggest trees survive droughts

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A tree’s trunk contains a network of tubes known as xylem whose job is to ferry water from the roots to leaves.
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Published on Jul 09, 2026 08:17 pm IST

Weight loss, muscle mass: Study decodes strengths, weaknesses of GLP-1 drugs

A distributor displays Mounjaro (tirzepatide) self-injecting GLP-1 prefilled pens at his office in Thane, Mumbai.
india news
Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:27 pm IST

Gains clear, but no single GLP-1 drug wins on every count: Study

Study compares 19 obesity drugs, no clear winner on weight and health outcomes
health
Updated on Jul 09, 2026 02:03 pm IST

Train the cell, then deploy: Science behind the new HIV vaccine study

The vaccine was developed by a consortium that included Scripps Research.
world news
Updated on Jul 21, 2026 04:29 pm IST

Scientists take another step towards lab-made life

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Dr Adamala worked from the bottom up rather than the top down. Instead of asking what genes an existing cell could do without, she added genes whose functions were known to inanimate bubbles of fatty membrane called liposomes.
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Published on Jul 04, 2026 07:01 am IST

Billions of doses later, a Lancet review confirms mRNA vaccine safety

The finding that matters for the risk–benefit calculation is that the risk of heart inflammation from the vaccine is significantly lower than the risk from a Covid infection itself, and most vaccine-associated cases have been clinically mild.
science
Updated on Jul 01, 2026 10:31 am IST

Should every baby’s DNA be sequenced?

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Freddie is part of the Generation Study, an English programme which plans to sequence the complete genetic code of 100,000 babies.
science
Published on Jun 30, 2026 05:55 pm IST

New Drugs Are Replacing Chemo for Aggressive Breast Cancer

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Upward of 48,000 Americans were diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer last year.
science
Published on Jun 25, 2026 05:34 pm IST
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