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

Updated on Jul 12, 2026 11:37 am IST

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

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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 11, 2026 02:42 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

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

Published on Jul 10, 2026 07:06 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.

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.

Published on Jul 09, 2026 01:54 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

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.

Published on Jul 08, 2026 04:50 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.

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.

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.

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.

Published on Jun 25, 2026 05:34 pm IST

Global warming has made Europe’s heatwave 2-4°C worse

A person uses a hand fan during a heatwave in Brussels, on June 24, 2026. Europe struggled to cope with a record-breaking heatwave on June 24, 2026, with at least 94 million people expected to experience temperatures above 35C, most of them in France and Spain. (Photo by EMILE WINDAL / Belga / AFP) / Belgium OUT

Published on Jun 25, 2026 04:49 pm IST

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published figures showing that American philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers who studied computer science.

Published on Jun 25, 2026 03:45 pm IST

A new drug targets one of cancer’s master switches

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Cancers often develop resistance to targeted drugs such as daraxonrasib. Instead, its promise for patients is that, when used alongside other treatments, it might buy them months more life.

Published on Jun 20, 2026 11:59 am IST

The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded

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FILE - Drought-stressed wheat plants stand adjacent to parched ground in a field near Macksville, Kan., May 16, 2026.

Published on Jun 17, 2026 03:55 pm IST

The ocean patch that is cooling in a warming world, and what it means

The cold blob south of Greenland, visible on this temperature map. The visualisation shows temperature changes from 1880 to 2015 as a rolling five-year average. Orange represents areas warmer than the 1951-80 baseline, and blue, areas cooler than the baseline.

Updated on Jun 15, 2026 08:59 pm IST

Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West

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China leads the Nature index, a ranking of countries by number of papers published in a set of respected journals.

Published on Jun 11, 2026 05:06 pm IST

New techniques can predict and prevent lung cancer

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Despite dramatic declines in smoking, lung cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis globally.

Published on Jun 11, 2026 04:02 pm IST

Heat, instability, 128kmph winds: Science behind dust storms hitting Delhi-NCR

A dust storm in New Delhi on Tuesday evening.

Published on Jun 10, 2026 06:15 pm IST

Rocket goes boom; so do moon plans

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The sky lights up as fire and smoke rises during an explosion of the uncrewed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket during a test on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 28, 2026

Published on Jun 04, 2026 04:30 pm IST

Scientifically Speaking: A pill takes on pancreatic cancer

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A bottle of daraxonrasib, Revolution Medicine’s pancreatic cancer drug. (Reuters)

Published on Jun 02, 2026 03:04 pm IST

Should you use a sleep tracker?

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Most trackers are very good at distinguishing sleep from being awake.

Published on Jun 01, 2026 03:55 pm IST

Too much time with colleagues can sour social interaction

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As the winter progressed, the hivernauts reported increasing levels of loneliness and paranoia, and rated their individual performance lower.

Updated on May 28, 2026 03:12 pm IST

Why science is becoming less innovative

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Analysing the careers of 12.5m scientists, Haochuan Cui and Yiling Lin, both of the University of Pittsburgh, along with co-authors, find that scientists become less likely to produce disruptive work as they age.

Published on May 26, 2026 05:04 pm IST

Super El Nino: Scientists warn about potential of upcoming event

Scientists say a potentially "super" El Nino is rapidly taking shape in the Pacific

Published on May 22, 2026 01:25 pm IST

Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them much better

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Demand for batteries has never been greater.

Published on May 21, 2026 04:51 pm IST

Why many women cannot make enough breast milk

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For many women, the explanation lies not in how they breastfeed but in the composition and function of unique cells in the mammary gland, over which they have no control.

Published on May 13, 2026 09:02 pm IST

A Breakthrough Heart Procedure Comes With Risky Tradeoffs

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The idea of a surgeon cracking her chest open and stopping her heart terrified her.

Published on Apr 24, 2026 01:16 pm IST

Why eldest siblings are brainier

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Using Danish administrative data, the researchers concluded that younger siblings were two to three times more likely than older siblings to be hospitalised for severe respiratory illnesses in their first year.

Published on Apr 17, 2026 11:36 am IST

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