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Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock photo GUWAHATI A new study has found a connection between cholesterol-rich gallstones exposed to toxic metals and gallbladder cancer (GBC) in Assam, one of the most affected regions globally. The study, led by a Tezpur University team, published in the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Research in Toxicology, reveals how heavy metals … Read more

Group Captain Shubanshu Shukla is also one of the four astronaut-designates selected for the Gaganyaan mission of ISRO. Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place in May 2025. Group Captain Shukla will be the pilot of the upcoming Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4), which is the fourth private … Read more

The story so far: The powerful earthquake in Myanmar on March 28 had its source in central Myanmar, about 20 km from Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city. Mandalay, located on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river, is close to one of the most seismically active faults in the region, called the Sagaing fault, named … Read more

Rapidly reducing aerosol emissions, which are part of air pollution, without concurrently reducing greenhouse gas emissions could expose a large fraction of the world’s most vulnerable people to a sudden acceleration of warming and extreme heat in highly polluted regions like India. Researchers warned as much in a study published in November 2024 in Geophysical … Read more

This image collage shows the location of the ChaSTE instrument onboard the Vikram lander. The lander was photographed by the Pragyan rover. | Photo Credit: ISRO As the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the moon on August 23, 2023, a thermal probe tucked snugly in its panels, slowly worked itself free and stretched … Read more

A handout made available by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on April 19, 2023, shows the tunnels of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. | Photo Credit: European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)/AFP Photo Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a … Read more

An aerial view of the new Parliament building in New Delhi | Photo Credit: ANI Since 2014, the Ministry of Home Affairs made 421 assurances in the Lok Sabha and 338 assurances in the Rajya Sabha, but ‘dropped’ close to 15% and 12% of them, respectively — the highest such share among all the Ministries … Read more

Some plants, like snapdragons, can produce a wide range of colourful flowers. The difference between two flowers of different colours can be elicited by comparing their genomes and spotting the differences there, according to Daria Shipilina, a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. As an evolutionary biologist, Shipilina is fascinated by how … Read more

Private US lander Blue Ghost captured high-definition images of a lunar sunset. To cut costs, instead of carrying material from Earth, astronauts would need to use the abundantly available lunar soil, or ‘regolith’ – a complex mixture of broken minerals and rocks – to build structures on site. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science … Read more

Doubling errors occur in handwriting but are less frequent. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Cytonn Photography/Unsplash A: Analyses of large corpora of typed text reveal that these doubling errors are a common class of typographical errors. They only arise in words that have adjacent double letters, or geminates, and are attributed to a special repetition … Read more

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, which was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024, is so far away that its light took 13.4 billion years to reach Earth. This means the galaxy can also reveal what the universe was like in its infancy, when it was just 300. | Photo Credit: AFP Scientists using the … Read more

ISRO has released images captured by its earth imaging and mapping satellite, CARTOSAT-3 showcasing the damages caused by the earthquake in Myanmar on March 28. The post-disaster Cartosat-3 imagery was acquired by ISRO on March 29 over the cities of Mandalay and Sagaing in Myanmar, it said. Additionally, the pre-event Cartosat-3 data acquired on March … Read more

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial crew of four lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday (March 31, 2025) launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a … Read more

According to the latest survey, the share of urban women who do unpaid household work has increased. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL While an increasing number of urban women are entering paid employment, the share of them who do unpaid household work, such as cooking, shopping, and caring for children and the elderly, has also … Read more

Lasers emerging from the new laser system on Unit Telescope 4 of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile’s Antofagasta Region, in the Atacama Desert. In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using carbon-dioxide lasers — from a distance. The potential applications … Read more

Kaizar Hossain, assistant professor, Asutosh College in Kolkata | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It is a proud moment for Asutosh College in Kolkata where an assistant professor in the department of environmental science not only got a paper published in the prestigious Nature journal but was also invited as a guest editor for the same … Read more

With the introduction of technology in the education sector and several debates about banning smartphones in schools in the country, we need to understand the good and the bad side of the internet. While the world is literally at your fingertips, the same is true vice versa; your data is also at the world’s fingertips. … Read more

A firefighter works to control the Black Cove Fire on March 26 in North Carolina, US. Representative image. | Photo Credit: AP Inside a green orb planted in the German countryside is a high-tech aid to prevent wildfires that have grown more common and destructive with rising global temperatures. The installation, resembling a giant golf … Read more

A picture shows the dam at a station connecting the Sebou and Bou Regreg basins near Kentira city on January 20, 2025. Water from the Sebou river is held at a station near Kenitra, treated, and transported via a 67-km underground canal to Rabat, instead of flowing naturally into the Atlantic Ocean. | Photo Credit: … Read more

In Uganda’s Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It’s a problem that has long littered the landscape in Kampala, the capital, where buveera are woven into the fabric of daily life. They show up in layers of excavated … Read more

Aryabhata Satellite being balanced on the dynamic balancing table at ISSP, Bangalore. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives To develop students’ interest in space science and technology, the Singareni Collieries Educational Society (SCES) has decided to celebrate the golden jubilee of the launch of India’s first satellite Aryabhata on April 19, 2025. The celebrations would be … Read more

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents watch as rescue workers search for victims in the aftermath of an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Early on March 28, a major 7.7-magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the earth as far as Bangkok, about 1,300 km … Read more

With the promise of newer, cheaper nuclear power on the horizon, U.S. states are vying to position themselves to build and supply the industry’s next generation as policymakers consider expanding subsidies and paving over regulatory obstacles. Advanced reactor designs from competing firms are filling up the federal government’s regulatory pipeline as the industry touts them … Read more

Police officers take part in a search operation for the remains of people who went missing after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan’s economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which … Read more

(From left) Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Rajat Patidar, CEO of Tesla Inc. Elon Musk, Rescuer search for survivors amid the rubble, Yashwant Varma, Inspector General of Police, Jammu Zone, Bhim Sen Tuti pays tribute to the mortal remains of Head Constable Jagbir Singh.  | Photo Credit: AP/PTI/Reuters (1) Myanmar earthquake: Death toll rises to over 1,700 The … Read more

A file photo of ‘Our Sun and Its Family‘ being screened for visitors at the sky theatre in Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: K Bhagya Prakash The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) will be revising the entry fee for the sky theatre show from April 1. As per the revised charges, entry fee … Read more

SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its sixth flight test on November 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: On March 15, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, announced on X that an uncrewed Mars landing mission will take place by the end of next year. The … Read more

The Fram2 astronauts and Space X completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities ahead of liftoff on March 31, 2025. Photo: X/@SpaceX SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday (March 31, 2025) — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named “Fram2” after … Read more

The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Kursk, Russia. The enrichment centrifuge is a device used to extract uranium-235 isotope from a sample of natural uranium. U-235 is fissile and thus useful to generate nuclear power and to build nuclear weapons. Natural uranium consists of 99.3% U-238 and 0.7% U-235. Nuclear power reactors need the … Read more