AI markets and competition in India
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How science academies can enhance scientific temper in India
They can enhance public understanding of science through effective communication, engagement with the public and media, promoting research integrity. The low level of basic education
August 21, 2024
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SCIENCE | Worries over harvesting blue blood from horseshoe crabs
A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast of the United States and serves as a linchpin for the
August 21, 2024
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SCIENCE | Third person to be cured of HIV
Marc Franke, a 54-year-old from western Germany, was dealt his first blow in 2008, when he learned he had HIV—a diagnosis that “ripped his world
August 21, 2024
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Are we headed into a climate hell? Is IPCC the one to save us?
One cannot go anywhere in the world without being bombarded with information about climate change, extreme events, and other disasters. Ever scarier sound bites about
August 21, 2024
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EXPLAINED | What is dark energy?
Dark energy is the unknown mechanism behind the ever-accelerating expansion of the universe. | Photo Credit: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/IMAGO IMAGES Scientists believe that something called
August 21, 2024
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Chandrayaan-3 marks India’s emergence as a space power
Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati on August 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft
August 21, 2024
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How the Siddaramaiah government plans to checkmate fake news in Karnataka
In a move aimed at tackling the surge of misinformation in Karnataka, the State government has decided to set up a fact-checking unit (FCU) under
August 21, 2024
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ARCHAEOLOGY | Why you owe your life to a handful of early humans
Neanderthals, Denisovans and early modern humans are thought to have coexisted for as much as 300,000 years, before they went extinct around 40,000 years ago
August 21, 2024
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Chandrayaan-3: The unsung heroes behind ISRO’s successful moon landing
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah greeting ISRO scientists after the successful soft-landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the surface of the moon, at ISRO’s ISTRAC facility in Bengaluru
August 21, 2024
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ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 success is only the beginning
Nineteen minutes when all eyes were riveted on their screens; 19 minutes when India’s Vikram landed on a side of the moon where nobody has
August 21, 2024
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Rare, deadly Nipah virus: What are the symptoms?
In this photo from a scanning electron microscope, the Nipah virus (colored yellow) can be seen budding from the surface of a cell. | Photo
August 21, 2024
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How NASA is making autonomous rovers for the moon
A pair of plastic prototypes of the CADRE rovers driving in formation during a test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last year. | Photo Credit:
August 21, 2024
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OSIRIS-REx and Bennu: Sample return missions explained
Getting to outer space is so difficult and dangerous, it’s safer to bring bits of space back to Earth. That’s a sample return mission in
August 21, 2024
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Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in Medicine
Kariko and Weissman have been working together on mRNA vaccines for more than 20 years. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors their contribution
August 21, 2024
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Fact check: AI doctors on social media spreading fake claims
In videos posted on social media, apparent doctors wearing white lab coats and a stethoscope around their necks frequently appear giving advice about natural remedies
August 21, 2024
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Will brain atlases solve mysteries around diseases like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and depression?
In a massive effort to understand the human brain, scientists have revealed highly detailed atlases of the brain—published through a suite of 21 papers on
August 21, 2024
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What is a ghost particle? Why is China hunting for it?
Understanding neutrinos could help solve the mystery of the origins of cosmic rays. | Photo Credit: Image: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/IMAGO China is building an
August 21, 2024
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Bangladesh gets its first nuclear power plant
Workers at the Rooppur plant line the roads for the arrival of the nuclear fuel. | Photo Credit: Rosatom WITH the delivery of the first
August 21, 2024
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ChatGPT to now have customised versions in bid to beat back competition
OpenAI plans to introduce a store later in November 2023 where users can find tailored GPTs from other users—and make money from their own—much as
August 21, 2024
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Dengue rates plunge after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
The Aedes aegypti mosquito can be recognized by its polka-dot covered legs. It can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever and yellow fever, among other
August 21, 2024
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Why did ChatGPT creator OpenAI oust its CEO Sam Altman?
Sam Altman, one of the most prominent figures in the world of artificial intelligence, is being forced out of OpenAI—the company behind the wildly popular
August 21, 2024
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PROFILE | Sam Altman: Back at OpenAI, but questions on initial firing and future of AI persist
On November 21, Sam Altman returned to lead OpenAI less than five days after his surprise dismissal, which kicked off a tug of war for
August 21, 2024
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HEALTH | Could AI transform health care in Africa?
Artificial intelligence is hyped to transform healthcare around the world, and not just in higher-income countries like the US and China. In Africa, AI is
August 21, 2024
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Google Gemini: All you need to know about the next big thing in AI
Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence on December 6 with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that
August 21, 2024
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South Korean researchers try to measure the impact of screen time on teenagers’ mental health
Researchers are trying to find links between screen time and negative mental health outcomes. | Photo Credit: Frank Sorge/IMAGO Each year, we hear new reports of youth
August 21, 2024
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Bridging the learning gap in Indian schools: Is generative AI the answer?
In a classroom in Bengaluru, half a dozen young students sit at a desk, listening intently to a small black device as a woman’s voice
August 21, 2024
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2023 in Space | R. Ramachandran writes: ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 makes India a space power, but there are challenges
Writing about India in a recent article in the journal The Space Review, the space researcher Daniel Duchaine of the Center for Space Governance, US,
August 21, 2024
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How graphene semiconductors can revolutionise electronics and computing
Scientists have unveiled the first functional graphene semiconductor, paving the way for much faster and more energy-efficient electronic devices. | Photo Credit: Imaginechina-Tuchong/imago images Researchers
August 21, 2024
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Why landing on the moon is still tough in 2024
Moon missions are as risky today as they were 60 years ago. NASA’s failed Peregrine mission is a reminder that getting humans back to the
August 21, 2024
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Frontline On Air | Shooting for the stars with feet of clay
LISTEN: Whether ISRO disrupts the “very foundation of the global space order” will depend greatly on how ISRO makes efficient use of the nation’s resources
August 21, 2024
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Explained: Why deepfakes are everywhere, and the fight to stop them
Deepfake or Deep Fake Concept as a symbol for misrepresenting or identity theft or faking identification and misrepresentation in a 3D illustration style. | Photo Credit:
August 21, 2024
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AI chip race: Fears grow of huge financial bubble
OpenAI Sam Altman, right, discusses the need for more chips designed for artificial intelligence with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on February 21, 2024, during a conference in
August 21, 2024
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Science Notebook | A tool to track cell-to-cell interactions, a synchrotron on solar power, and a galactic emission and the Big Bang
The new uLIPSTIC technology can track the physical interactions between cells, such as the above depiction of a dendritic cell activating a T cell. |
August 21, 2024
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How do pandemics begin? – Frontline
In 1999, a British journalist named Edward Hooper published The River a painstakingly researched, carefully written book on the emergence of HIV/AIDS, in which he
August 21, 2024
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies, aged 94
They called it the “elusive” God Particle. But they found it in the end—the Higgs boson. Its namesake, British physicist and Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs,
August 21, 2024
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Cholesterol-chomping gut bacteria can reduce risk of heart attack
The rod-shaped Oscillibacter species bacteria take up fluorescently labelled cholesterol (shown here in green). | Photo Credit: Ahmed Mohamed/Broad Institute CHANGES in the microbiome in the
August 21, 2024
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With the relentless rise of AI, journalists face tough choices
AI tools are aiding and altering newsrooms across the globe. However, regulations to ensure the ethical use of AI are slow to catch up. Along
August 21, 2024
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Cockroach: How a reviled pest from India colonised the world
Scientist studied DNA samples of 281 German cockroaches from 17 countries, across all six human-inhabited continents. | Photo Credit: Betka82 The stuff of nightmares, the
August 21, 2024
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How drones from Türkiye located the helicopter carrying late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi
In the desolate expanse of Iran’s mountainous northwest, a tragedy occurred on May 19 that claimed the lives of nine people, including Iranian President Ebrahim
August 21, 2024
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Cats on the moon? Google AI Overview places misleading answers on top of searches
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, California on May 14, 2024. Bloopers—some funny, others disturbing—have been shared on
August 21, 2024
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Why 2023 was the hottest summer yet, and a way to improve lithium-ion batteries
Rings of a redwood tree in California. Tree rings contain annually resolved and absolutely dated information about past summer temperatures. | Photo Credit: Bill Oxford/Getty
August 21, 2024
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The Dilemma of Digital Sleep Solutions
Digital aids are sweeping through a sleepless world. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A wooden bowl, filled with water and bobbing wooden orbs, is sloshed
August 21, 2024
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IISc’s MSG Method Boosts Recombinant Proteins; Edinburgh Unravels Sun’s Magnetic Mystery; SIAT’s Perovskite Detectors Enable Low-Dose X-rays
This illustration lays a depiction of the sun’s magnetic fields over an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The complex overlay of lines shows the
August 21, 2024
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Asteroids And Comets: What’s the difference?
Asteroids and comets were formed about 4.5 billion years ago, during the earliest moments of our solar system. They orbit the sun, just as planets
August 21, 2024
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The Digital Competition Bill, 2024: What’s the fuss about?
On June 18, officials from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) met tech leaders to hash out the new Digital Competition Bill (DCB).
August 21, 2024
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Science Notebook | CERN’s funds crunch, new tech for nuclear fuel, and airborne pathogens get a new name
The proposed site of CERN’s new underground particle collider, the Future Circular Collider FCC, overlaid on the existing LHC at CERN. | Photo Credit: Universitat Zurich Germany
August 21, 2024
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In this AI age, I still write my own articles
How can you know if this text was really written by a human? I know, because I am writing it right now. But, of course,
August 21, 2024
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Space Exploration and Particle Physics Breakthroughs: China’s Far Side Moon Samples, CERN’s Top Quark Mass Precision, and Mysterious Cosmic Deuteron Excess
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer perched atop the International Space Station, on the left. | Photo Credit: NASA World’s first samples from moon’s far side ON
August 21, 2024
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New Climate Action Model Prioritises Equity by Categorising Countries Based on Development Levels Rather Than Geography
A sit-in protest during COP21, UN Climate Change Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 9, 2015. | Photo Credit: Francois Mori/AP In
August 21, 2024
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COVID-19 Vaccine Safety: Balancing Rare Side Effects with Public Health Benefits
In the US, more than 13,000 recipients of COVID-19 vaccines have filed injury claims with the federal government. In India, Venugopalan Govindan’s daughter Karunya died
August 21, 2024
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Omega Centauri’s Black Hole, Most-Energetic Neutrino Detected, GaN Semiconductors For Nuclear Reactors
The likely location of an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the Omega Centauri star cluster. | Photo Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble/AFP Hubble data
August 21, 2024
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Meru Gokhale’s Editrix Offers AI-powered Editing Solutions, Making Quality Book Editing Accessible and Affordable
Creator Meru Gokhale says the response to Editrix has been largely positive. | Photo Credit: By Special Arrangement “It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as
August 21, 2024
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Economic Survey 2023-24: India Challenges Global Climate Strategy, Calls for Equitable Approach
Workers clean panels at a solar park in Modhera, India’s first round-the-clock solar-powered village in Gujarat. October 19, 2022. | Photo Credit: Sunil Kataria India,
August 21, 2024
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Book Review: Nanako Hanada’s ‘The Bookshop Woman’ Recounts the Storied Life of A Bibliophile’s Adventures in Tokyo
When things fall apart, some of us bury our heads between the pages of a book, hoping that our problems will vanish if we escape
August 20, 2024
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Wazir X: No One’s Problem, Everyone’s Money As Cryptocurrency Firm Hit By Cyberattack
In an endless stream of appeals for help, social media platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter) have been awash with posts by people
August 20, 2024
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Type 1 Diabetes: Can ‘Smart’ Insulin Provide A Cure?
Approximately 9 million people live with type 1 diabetes. This is what their typical daily routine might look like: At 7:00 am, wake up and
August 20, 2024
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