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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

The second phase of India’s National Mental Health Survey is currently underway. The first phase identified mood disorders as an important diagnostic category in terms of prevalence in India. March 30 is celebrated worldwide as World Bipolar Day. Mood disorders are psychiatric disorders characterised by a pathological alteration in one’s mood, energy, and activity levels. … Read more

India has pledged to reduce the health impacts of air pollution by 2040, aligning its actions with the National Clean Air Programme at the concluding session of the second World Health Organisation (WHO) conference on air pollution and health. Speaking at the conference organised in Colombian city of Cartagena, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s … Read more

The second phase of India’s National Mental Health Survey is currently underway. The first phase identified mood disorders as an important diagnostic category in terms of prevalence in India. March 30 is celebrated worldwide as World Bipolar Day. Mood disorders are psychiatric disorders characterised by a pathological alteration in one’s mood, energy, and activity levels. … Read more

A 19th Century medallion of Giovanni Arduino. As there are no contemporary portrait of Arduino, this medallion that was made sometime before 1850 for the Venetian Pantheon in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice serves as the best option for his likeness. | Photo Credit: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti / Wikimedia Commons What is … Read more

“Induction of the Semi cryogenic propulsion system along with an uprated cryogenic stage in the LVM3 vehicle enhances its payload capability from 4 tonne to 5 tonne in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO),” ISRO added. File | Photo Credit: Reuters ISRO has announced significant progress in the design and development of a Semicryogenic engine or Liquid … Read more

Rescuers resume operations at the Chatuchak site of a skyscraper collapse on March 29, 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. In the aftermath of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar, Bangkok finds itself in an unprecedented state of paralysis on March 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Getty Images India’s earthquake monitoring agency, the National Centre for … Read more

A partial solar eclipse will take place on March 29, 2025, lasting around four hours. File. | Photo Credit: AP A partial solar eclipse will take place on Saturday (March 29, 2025), lasting around four hours, as the moon moves in front of the Sun. The spectacle will be visible in select areas of the … Read more

Dignitaries at the event held by Apollo Proton Cancer Centre to celebrate women leaders in STEM on Thursday. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ Three women leaders, who broke the glass ceiling in their respective domains, shared their experiences at the event held to celebrate women leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by … Read more

Miner worker showing stone coal Despite thousands of illegal mines identified in Telangana between 2018 and 2022, no First Information Reports (FIRs) were lodged and no court cases were filed in the State during this period, data show. But in 2023, the number of illegal mines identified surged threefold and there was a similar spurt … Read more

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin with Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu during the first day of the Budget 2025-26 session in Chennai. Various southern States have tabled their Budgets and Economic Surveys this year. An analysis of their Surveys shows that economic growth in all of these States lagged behind India’s economic growth in 2023-24. … Read more

PPIE is not the same as simply taking patient feedback. It involves deep and genuine collaboration, where patients help make research decisions alongside scientists and clinicians. Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images Imagine you’re at the doctor’s office, discussing your latest test results or asking about a symptom that just … Read more

  Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Gemstone 1 / 5 | What is the famous saying about Alexandrite’s colour change? Ruby by day, emerald by night Emerald by day, ruby by night Sapphire by day, topaz by night Opal by day, diamond by night Alexandrite shines red in lamplight and green in sunlight; … Read more

  Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered hands sport a pair of menacing curved claws. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: AP Fossils unearthed during construction of a water … Read more

  Ice is seen on the Pastoruri glacier in the Peruvian Andes, Peru, May 7, 2024. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data released in March … Read more

  Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in collaboration with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi and Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, in an initiative supported by the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has successfully conducted a feasibility study to assess the potential of … Read more

  Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet (200 meters) below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight … Read more

An inter-State delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies can potentially also result in a shift of power from non-BJP parties to the BJP. The anxiety about delimitation is not only about the potential reduction of political power for peninsular States to the benefit of heartland ones. An inter-State delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies can potentially also … Read more