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Efim Zelmanov grew up in the erstwhile Soviet Union, at a time when scientists were considered demigods. They were his childhood heroes. When he was
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In his 1967 novel The Vendor of Sweets RK Narayan introduced his readers to the idea of a ‘story writing machine’ that resembles a typewriter
Pavel Durov’s laissez-faire attitude to regulation made messaging app Telegram into a giant and gave him a platform to clash with officials from Moscow to
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A bed of manganese nodules from deep offshore of the Cook Islands taken during a Japanese research cruise in 2000. The nodules range in size from
“Twelve fours are…?” called out my 14-year-old daughter, planning her study schedule for final exams, meticulously matching lessons and subjects with hours and days. “48,”
India’s G20 presidency has made digital public infrastructure (DPI) a central offering, showcasing the country’s beneficial experience of technology and digitalisation and its relevance to
Xiaomi launched its latest flagship series, the Xiaomi 14 in India last week. The lineup includes two models — the vanilla Xiaomi 14 and the
Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is reportedly upset with the French IT company Atos. Reason is said to be delay in the delivery of two
Bobby Kotick, the former head of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly considering buying TikTok, as the app could be banned in the United States. The Wall
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If you have been planing to purchase a budget smartphone, then you can consider buying the Moto G54. Launched last year, the Moto G54 comes
Elon Musk has been extremely critical of ChatGPT maker OpenAI for deviating from its mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity and taking
Sharan Hegde, an entrepreneur and founder of The 1% Club who also runs a YouTube channel named — ‘financewithsharan’ has claimed that his YouTube account
We keep hearing about Google Maps fiasco from across the globe where it directed people in some odd direction and eventually got them stuck in
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reclaimed a spot in the list of the world’s 10 most valuable companies, riding the optimism of the artificial
To make it easier for users to book train tickets and avail of other train-related services via the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
Google has announced a series of initiatives aimed at supporting the democratic process and safeguarding its platforms from abuse during the upcoming Indian General Election.
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has banned over 5 lakh accounts in India. Reuters has reported that these accounts were banned for
Microsoft did not get the success it was anticipating with its Android-powered Surface Duo-series smartphones. The company has discontinued the lineup after the Duo 2.
ChatGPT went through an outage. The outage tracking website — Downdetector — has also received reports from several users suggesting that they are unable to
National broadcaster Doordarshan has good news for Lord Ram Devotees. Doordarshan has announced that it will telecast live the morning prayers offered to the Ram
Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India has issued an important warning with a severity
Samsung unveiled two new mid-range smartphones — Galaxy A35 5G and Galaxy A55 5G — on Tuesday and now it has revealed the pricing of
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Samsung recently expanded its mid-range A-series with two new smartphones — Galaxy A55 and A35. The more expensive Samsung Galaxy A55 starts at Rs 39,999
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The results of the world’s largest trial of a four-day work week revealed that the workforce had significantly reduced rates of stress and illness. | Photo
This technology has the potential to make the transport and storage of explosive materials safer. The volatility of certain high explosives presents a potential hazard.
The eight toroidal magnets surrounding the calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. This calorimeter measures the energies of particles produced when protons collide in
His health and cause of death have been the subject of debate since 1802. An international team of scientists has uncovered important information about the
Twenty years ago on April 14, an international group of scientists in the Human Genome Project (HGP) published the very first sequence of the human
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Photons or particles of matter (like an electron) produce a wave pattern when two slits are used. | Photo Credit: WIKIPEDIA The original double-slit experiment,
Global emissions of the five CFCs weighted by their impact on ozone depletion (a) and the climate (b). | Photo Credit: WESTERN ET AL. (2023),
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The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. | Photo Credit: Felipe Pedreros, IceCube/NSF Astronomers can get a more detailed understanding of
At high temperatures, superconductors behave very similar to other conducting materials. But when they are cooled below a certain (transition) temperature, their electrical resistance disappears
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Dengue virus evolution in India. | Photo Credit: Suraj Jagtap, IISc A multi-institutional study led by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has
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THE WHO has released a new guideline on non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) recommending against their use to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable
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Photo-induced crystal melting with luminescence evolution. | Photo Credit: Yosuke Tani OSAKA UNIVERSITY researchers have discovered a novel material that transitions from a crystal to
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Nasscom, the trade association for the IT and business process management industry, has released a comprehensive set of responsible artificial intelligence (AI) guidelines for generative
New research has provided the clearest evidence of a human “fingerprint” on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the
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This illustration provided by the Canadian Museum of Nature shows a reconstruction of a dinosaur being attacked by a mammal 125 million years ago. The
Breast cancer. It was the last thing Sarah wanted to hear. Sarah is not her real name, but she was 31 years old at the
There is a long and growing list of nearly 80 women researchers and doctors who are doing their bit for India’s Antarctica programme, which was
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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
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
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
The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory in Mexico. | Photo Credit: Jordon Goodman/HAWC Collaboration Study Researchers at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute
Ötzi was discovered in the Alps, preserved in ice, more than 5,000 years after his death | Photo Credit: Image: Marco Samadelli/AP/picture alliance The 5,000 year
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
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
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
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
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
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
In this photo from a scanning electron microscope, the Nipah virus (colored yellow) can be seen budding from the surface of a cell. | Photo
A pair of plastic prototypes of the CADRE rovers driving in formation during a test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last year. | Photo Credit:
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
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
John Jumper and Demis Hassabis, winners of the 2023 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. | Photo Credit: Google DeepMind THE 2023 Albert Lasker Basic
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
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
Euphoria surrounds this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Dr Katalin Karikó and Dr Drew Weissman for their scientific research that made
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
Workers at the Rooppur plant line the roads for the arrival of the nuclear fuel. | Photo Credit: Rosatom WITH the delivery of the first
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
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Comparison of adaptation finance needs (extrapolated) versus modelled costs of adaptation versus adaptation finance flows (international public) by region. | Photo Credit: Adaptation Gap Report
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
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The new perovskite solar cell design achieves unprecedented stability and efficiency. | Photo Credit: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne A team of researchers from École
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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
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
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,
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
A field of heliostats at a power station in the Arava Valley, Israel. | Photo Credit: Ahikam Seri/Bloomberg News Forests mitigate climate change by sequestering
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
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
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:
It was a picture of contrasts. At the Davos World Economic Forum in 2023, Paytm CEO and founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma was asked by the
A doctor tests a child for malaria at a hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, in May 2016. | Photo Credit: Katy Migiro/Reuters MALARIA is the largest
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
Heavy ion collisions that are off-centre produce a quark–gluon plasma along with a strong magnetic field, allowing researchers to study the interactions between the two.
The new uLIPSTIC technology can track the physical interactions between cells, such as the above depiction of a dendritic cell activating a T cell. |
IT would seem paradoxical that during the apparent tranquillity of sleep the brain is actually bustling with activity. According to a study by the Washington
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
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,
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
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
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed at the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. | Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As part of
A Petri dish containing Salmonella bacteria. | Photo Credit: Ted S. Warren/WSU College of Veterinary Medicine Vampire bacteria: out for human blood Some of the world’s
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
In India, 2023 was the second warmest year after 2016, and the duration of its heatwaves has increased by about three days in the last
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,
How is the deep seabed, containing no photosynthetic organisms, releasing oxygen? Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface, a curious phenomenon has been discovered. At depths
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
The victorious Team India at IMO 2024 with the accompanying Deputy Leader Rijul Saini, Short Term Visitor at HBCSE (extreme right) and Observer Mainak Ghosh, Postdoctoral Fellow
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
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