The reed snake was collected during field surveys in Oragitok, an area characterised by rich forested habitats and high ecological significance. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement GUWAHATI A team of researchers from multiple institutions has described a new species of burrowing reed snake from Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district. The description of the species, named Calamaria … Read more
The Large Hadron Collider can zoom in on phenomena happening at a scale of 10-18 m. But to fathom flavour, theoretical estimates suggest we need to plumb at least 10-21 m, which would require much more powerful particle accelerators. | Photo Credit: CERN At the smallest scales, nature often repeats itself. It makes families of … Read more
Big fight: Supporters of Trinamool Congress during a public meeting for the Lok Sabha election in Kolkata on Thursday | Photo Credit: Swapan Mahapatra An indicator-based analysis for the poll-bound West Bengal reveals that the State lags in several economic and social indicators. While it shows strength in select indicators such as immunisation and elementary … Read more
Anthropic did not respond to a Reuters’ request for comment [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government’s cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority … Read more
According to OpenAI, Axios, a widely used third-party developer library, was compromised on March 31 [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios and is taking steps to protect the process that certifies its macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps. The … Read more
Anthropic announced on April 7 that it was limiting the release of its new “Mythos” model over risks posed by its unprecedented ability to rapidly identify security vulnerabilities [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The global monetary system is not prepared to address artificial intelligence’s rapidly escalating risks, the IMF managing director warned Sunday, as a … Read more
Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala. File image: Special Arrangement Even as the government mandates real name caller ID, Truecaller AB, which built its whole business on caller identification and spam detection, has expressed confidence that it would be able to survive and grow in India, its biggest market, CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told The Hindu in an … Read more
An upcoming research paper by Asar Social Impact Advisors makes a case for ‘Climate education as a Climate mitigation strategy’ arguing that education systems can significantly shape long-term emissions pathways by influencing behaviour, consumption patterns, and civic engagement. | Photo: iStock/ Getty Images Across India, floods drown schools, heatwaves close universities, and smog turns morning … Read more
SINGAPORE, April 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Qianhai Shenzhen–Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub (EHub) made its debut at GITEX AI ASIA, marking a significant step in engaging Singapore’s innovation ecosystem and integrating more closely with local technology and innovation networks. As a flagship innovation and technology collaboration platform bridging Shenzhen and Hong Kong, EHub leverages its … Read more
The green pill millipede (Arthrosphaera lutescens). Photo: Special Arrangement A recent study has revealed the self-cleaning mechanism of green pill millipede (Arthrosphaera lutescens), a species endemic to the Western Ghats. Researchers found that these millipedes, primarily located in the Munnar region of Idukki and Nelliampathy in Palakkad, utilise a biological mechanism similar to the famous … Read more
Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos The BJP’s push for an immediate delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies has triggered almost reflexive opposition from the Congress, while other opposition parties are more guarded in their responses. The government has not revealed its exact proposals, but party representatives who met with government interlocutors have come away … Read more
Karthik V. Raman | Photo Credit: ARRANGEMENT At Raman Research Lab at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Hyderabad, India’s first quantum computer is taking shape. It is not an assembled computing wonder but something that is being built right from chips and physics that shape the next-generation computing devices. The principal investigator is … Read more
When regular activity is removed, the human body does not simply stop or pause progress. It actively reconfigures, recalibrates, and reorganises. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images The human body is highly adaptable. It continuously reconfigures and reorganises itself in direct response to the demands placed upon it. Its musculature … Read more
In this image from video provided by NASA, the Artemis II Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, on April 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA/AP From false claims that a historic lunar fly-by was staged in a movie studio to unfounded narratives that footage of the crew was AI-generated, the Artemis II mission … Read more
Alexis Carrel’s work showed how damaged vessels could be repaired and even replaced, laying the foundation for modern organ transplantation | Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Soumyadip Sinha The 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alexis Carrel “in recognition of his work on vascular suturing and the transplantation of blood vessels and … Read more
Various political parties in Tamil Nadu have made a slew of promises for the upcoming Assembly elections. | Photo Credit: RAGU R Tamil Nadu is going to polls on April 23 and political parties have made a slew of promises, many of them having women and education at their centre. At this point, an indicator-based … Read more
A colorised scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, shown in gold, interacting with a human neutrophil, in red. | Photo Credit: NIAID Men experience more skin infections than women — doctors have known this for a while. They have proposed both behavioural and physiological reasons for this difference but the exact mechanism … Read more
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto GUWAHATI A report on bats in India has recommended a systematic quantification of guano, or accumulated bat poop, and its nutritional value compared to existing bio-fertilisers. Farmers in India do not fancy guano as an alternative to chemical fertilisers as much as their counterparts … Read more
On April 9, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the emperor penguin to be an endangered species. | Photo Credit: KSL A sentinel species is a species whose members’ health signals the condition of the ecosystem in which they live. Scientists monitor them because they are among the first to respond to stressors … Read more
A view of night lights in India in 2016. | Photo Credit: NASA Night time lights are not just getting brighter New data challenge the traditional view that nightlights are becoming brighter everywhere. Based on satellite data from 2014 to 2022 of artificial nightlight, researchers found a nightscape both brightening and dimming. While global brightening, … Read more
A massive turbine-generator of the 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), in Kalpakkam. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu A fast breeder reactor (FBR) gets its name from two features. First, it ‘breeds’ more nuclear fuel than it consumes. Second, it uses fast neutrons — ones that haven’t been slowed — to initiate nuclear fission. … Read more
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Representative picture. | Photo Credit: Creative Commons Bill Murray has once said, “If Google does not know the answer, it is not a question.” Even though an absolutely untrue quote, it definitely makes one wonder what all the internet knows. An encyclopedia larger than any book at your fingertips, that’s what the internet is. However, … Read more
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya speaks during a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters From admiring rocket launches as a child growing up in Houston to steering the operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Indian-American scientist Amit Kshatriya has … Read more
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen as recovery teams work to secure the spacecraft ahead of transferring Artemis II crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, unseen, following splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, United States. | Photo Credit: NASA via PTI With Artemis II successfully completing its … Read more
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover in the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 6, 2026. File | Photo Credit: via Reuters On April 10, the Orion crew capsule of the Artemis II mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of San Diego, at the end … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (April 11, 2026) praised the Artemis astronauts just after they splashed down in the Pacific and capped their journey around the Moon, as he looked ahead to the eventual goal of sending missions to Mars. “Congratulations to the Great and Very … Read more
On April 10, 2026, NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, splashed down in the Pacific, successfully concluding their journey to the moon and back. It was the first time in over 50 years that humans had been in the … Read more
The Artemis II crew capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean in this screengrab from a livestream video after the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon, April 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The NASA spacecraft that carried four astronauts around the Moon splashed down as planned Friday (April 10, 2026) into the Pacific … Read more
