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(L-R) Air Marshal AK Bharti, DGMO Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, Vice Admiral AN Pramod and Major General SS Sharda during the press conference on Operation Sindoor, in New Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI In a swift and decisive military action against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the Indian armed forces … Read more

An image of the ALICE detector, which researchers used to track near-miss collisions between lead nuclei in the LHC. | Photo Credit: CERN In India and other parts of the world, some ancient natural philosophers practised an enterprise called alchemy. It was in some ways an early form of chemistry, but guided by less-than-scientific ideas … Read more

Migratory birds in V Formation, travel over long distances | Photo Credit: mbolina Just like how takeoff and landing are crucial for an airplane, the same applies to birds. Migratory birds often fly in a V-shape, a process known as bird flight. This unique movement is guided by the principles of aerodynamics, specifically lift and … Read more

(1) India launches Operation Sindoor After the Pahalgam terror attack killed 26 people in April 22, India launched a targeted anti-terror exercise – Operation Sindoor – using precision strikes to destroy nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir where operational terrorist infrastructure. was found These nine sites were selected out of 21 identified, and acted as … Read more

This Bedmap3 grid of Antarctica’s bed topography shows the Gamburtsev Mountains slightly to the right of the image’s centre. | Photo Credit: Pritchard et al., Scientific Data (2025), CC BY Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, … Read more

Bundles of sugarcane are kept for sale at Machkhowa market on the banks of Brahmaputra River, in Guwahati. | Photo Credit: ANI India is looking to increase the ethanol-blending ratio in petrol to 30% to further cut down on fossil fuel consumption, as it has met its previous target of 20% in 2025, well ahead of schedule. … Read more

A mother seen putting face mask to her son while waiting for transport for Kanpur at the Ghazipur – NH24 Intersection during the 57th Day of the National Lockdown against spreading of Coronavirus in New Delhi. In 2021, an analysis of excess deaths — the increase in the death tally over expected numbers based on … Read more

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood. The plasma structures we see are variations in density or turbulence, akin to interstellar cyclones stirred up by energetic events in the galaxy. The study, published in … Read more

Female mammals produce milk to nourish their young. Much of the nourishment comes from lactose, the major sugar in milk. The lactose is broken down in the infant’s small intestine into the more simpler sugars, glucose, and galactose, which are readily absorbed by the small intestine. The break-down, or digestion, of lactose is mediated by … Read more

The primitive man in the cave.; 3d render For Snapshot – picture from istock/getty images | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors. The complete spears made of spruce and pine are among the oldest known hunting weapons. … Read more

A Mount Augustus snail laying an egg through its neck in Hokitika, New Zealand. | Photo Credit: AFP The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were once shrouded in mystery. Now footage of the snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured for the first time, the country’s conservation … Read more

Eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side, according to experiments with over 200 eggs. What does this mean for the best way to crack an egg for breakfast? Not much, since a break around the middle is the best way to get the golden yolk and runny whites to ooze … Read more

An Earth Observation Satellite (EOS) lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andra Pradesh. File | Photo Credit: PTI India will launch an earth observation satellite on Sunday (May 18, 2025) from the spaceport at Sriharikota, boosting its surveillance capabilities from space in all weather conditions. A delegation of lawmakers, who are … Read more

Picture a space rock smashing into the moon. It sends splinters of moon rock flying into the dark void of space. What would that spectacle look like? Scientists used the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, to discover asteroid 2024 YR4 in December 2024 as a new entrant in the asteroid databases — and it … Read more

Yeast colonies being grown on an agar plate. | Photo Credit: Rainis Venta (CC BY-SA) Researchers at Emory University and the University of Texas Health Science Centre, both in the US, have found that a class of mutations that leads to serious developmental disabilities in human babies has similar effects in budding yeast, a simpler … Read more

The origins of human music are obscure because of the many contexts in which it could have arisen and for a variety of purposes. Archaeologists have found musical instruments among the remains of Egyptian and Indus civilisation sites as well as in similar settlements around the world since the dawn of prehistory. Some theories also … Read more

Venera-4 model at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, similar to the reentering spacecraft Kosmos 482. It was part of a series of missions bound for Venus, but never made it out of Earth’s orbit due to a rocket failure. Photo: https://blogs.esa.int/ A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday (May 10, 2025), more than a … Read more

The Australian election is over, and the centre-left Labor Party has been re-elected. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese becomes the first Australian leader in over two decades to secure a second term. As of May 7, with 80% of votes counted and results confirmed in 138 of 150 seats, the outcome is clear: Labor has won … Read more

An artist’s conception of a magnetar in a star cluster. | Photo Credit: ESO/L. Calçada In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of researchers led by Anirudh Patel of Columbia University has reported that the universe may have another way to produce the precious element gold — which scientists have … Read more

Bunsen, the burner German chemist Robert Bunsen was born on March 30, 1811 in Gottingen. His father taught modern languages at the University of Gottingen and Bunsen too went on to earn his doctorate there. Before he returned to this place as a lecturer, he travelled across Europe for three years. He also taught at … Read more

Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important food crops in the world. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Sandy Ravaloniaina/Unsplash Scientists have assembled a first of its kind ‘pangenome’, a kind of reference genome, by stitching together key parts of genomes from 144 varieties of wild and cultivated varieties of rice … Read more

Climate-driven food shortage and undernourishment could affect the composition of the human gut microbiota, exacerbating the effects of climate change on human health, according to a new review article published in The Lancet Planetary Health. The article comes on the heels of a growing number of studies that highlight the key role food and nutrition … Read more

Indian-headed households had the highest median annual income among all Asian groups | Photo Credit: Reuters With a median annual household income exceeding $150,000, Indian Americans top the earnings chart among all Asian groups in the U.S.— about 40% higher than both Chinese and Japanese households. As of 2023, nearly 25 million Asians lived in … Read more

In 2016, when Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo at the University of Granada in Spain met Kaspar Delhey, an expert in bird coloration at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, a new collaboration was born. “He suggested we study whether urbanisation is associated with differences in bird coloration,” Delhey said. Many studies have investigated how urban … Read more

ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan addresses a press conference on updates on the Gaganyaan Programme, at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on May 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The launch of India’s maiden human space flight — Gaganyaan — has been pushed to the first quarter of 2027, nearly five years later than … Read more

A: The increase in core temperature observed during illness is commonly called fever and occurs in response to infection by a pathogen or certain types of physical injury. When a person becomes infected with bacteria, the white blood cells of the immune system recognise the incoming pathogen as foreign and initiate the first stages of … Read more

A group of Haenyeo women on Jeju Island, September 2012. | Photo Credit: Idobi (CC BY-SA) A new study has presented evidence of both genetic adaptation and physiological changes among the Haenyeo, a unique group of women in South Korea’s Jeju Island known for diving up to 10 m underwater and up to seven hours … Read more

Representative purposes. | Photo Credit: DRDO A set of parachutes developed for the first uncrewed mission of India’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme was shipped from Agra on Monday (May 5, 2025). The parachutes were developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), an Agra-based laboratory under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). … Read more

The Government of India and a clutch of startups have set their sights on creating an indigenous foundational Artificial Intelligence large language model (LLM), along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama. Foundational AI, or LLMs, are manually trained systems that can churn out responses to queries. Training them requires large amounts … Read more

The Government of India and a clutch of startups have set their sights on creating an indigenous foundational Artificial Intelligence large language model (LLM), along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama. Foundational AI, or LLMs, are manually trained systems that can churn out responses to queries. Training them requires large amounts … Read more