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SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone tech: Report

SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous dr...

SpaceX recently acquired xAI ‌in a deal that combined Musk’s major ‌space ⁠and d...

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Who wins the science prize when AI makes the discovery?

Who wins the science prize when AI makes the discovery?

AI is never just a calculator: it can come up with answers that humans may not b...

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How district cooling can ease India’s climate and urban planning troubles

How district cooling can ease India’s climate and urban...

District cooling is a centralised system that supplies air-conditioning to a clu...

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Lean into the abyss: the counterintuitive beauty of skiing

Lean into the abyss: the counterintuitive beauty of skiing

Skiing’s origins stretch back over 5,000 years: rock carvings in Norway and anci...

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Loggerhead turtles face four-pronged threats due to climate change

Loggerhead turtles face four-pronged threats due to cli...

Warmer oceans and depleting food have affected the ubiquitous marine turtle’s re...

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Single genome-editing strategy promises to treat multiple disorders

Single genome-editing strategy promises to treat multip...

Nonsense mutations account for about a quarter of all known disease-causing gene...

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58 genetic variants, not single gene, shape anxiety risk: Study

58 genetic variants, not single gene, shape anxiety ris...

The team also found a strong genetic overlap between anxiety disorders and relat...

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What are bio-based chemicals and enzymes? | Explained

What are bio-based chemicals and enzymes? | Explained

How is India positioned with respect to scaling bio-based chemicals and enzymes?

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Cows can use tools, and one Austrian cow has now shown it clearly

Cows can use tools, and one Austrian cow has now shown ...

A cow named Veronika has been documented using a brush as a tool, choosing diffe...

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Bridging a divide with an ‘Indian Scientific Service’

Bridging a divide with an ‘Indian Scientific Service’

A dedicated scientific cadre is needed to strengthen governance as science, tech...

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Debris of rockets with ISRO logo found near uninhabited island in Maldives

Debris of rockets with ISRO logo found near uninhabited...

The debris of the Payload Fairing which are believed to be that of ISRO’s Launch...

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Astronomers puzzle over ‘inside out’ planetary system

Astronomers puzzle over ‘inside out’ planetary system

The innermost planet is rocky, the next two are gaseous and the fourth one, whic...

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Four new astronauts arrive at International Space Station to replace NASA's evacuated crew

Four new astronauts arrive at International Space Stati...

Last month's medical evacuation was NASA's first in 65 years of human spacefligh...

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Neurobehavioural therapy can reshape brain networks in functional neuro disorders, says expert

Neurobehavioural therapy can reshape brain networks in ...

Functional neurological disorders, long dismissed as purely psychogenic conditio...

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How OpenAI’s ChatGPT helped scientists crack a tedious physics problem

How OpenAI’s ChatGPT helped scientists crack a tedious ...

If the new finding represents AI at its best in physics research, generating gen...

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‘Online education is one of the biggest finds of the last decade’

‘Online education is one of the biggest finds of the la...

There is a lot of discussion on how online education will change and if it will ...

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Experts underscore the importance of extracting only relevant data

Experts underscore the importance of extracting only re...

We need to be aware of why a website is seeking a particular piece of data and t...

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Why did the U.S. FDA decline to review the new mRNA influenza vaccine?

Why did the U.S. FDA decline to review the new mRNA inf...

The debate here is not about the legitimacy of mRNA vaccines. It is about whethe...

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‘Large enterprises have to unravel business processes to make them AI-first’

‘Large enterprises have to unravel business processes t...

They will also have to rewire business processes in terms of AI-ready,says Virtu...

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Science Quiz: On Charles Darwin

Science Quiz: On Charles Darwin

Remembering Charles Darwin

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What is a blimp?

What is a blimp?

Like a utopian castle in the sky, it drifts in the air. This is the story of an ...

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Bacteria can talk to each other and are multilingual, says biologist

Bacteria can talk to each other and are multilingual, s...

The award winning scientist believes our understanding of bacterial behaviour ca...

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Antimicrobial resistance: Charles Darwin was right; India’s drug policy isn’t

Antimicrobial resistance: Charles Darwin was right; Ind...

Antibiotics aren’t only pharmacological agents: they are evolutionary interventi...

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Launch to ISS delayed again over weather: NASA

Launch to ISS delayed again over weather: NASA

It is targeting February 13 for the lift-off of Crew-12’s mission aboard a Space...

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Budget gives science missions big numbers but core funding gaps persist

Budget gives science missions big numbers but core fund...

The 2026-27 Union Budget sold science as an engine of growth but leading researc...

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Solar eclipse 2026: Where, when and how to watch it?

Solar eclipse 2026: Where, when and how to watch it?

A solar eclipse is when the Sun, Moon and Earth are in alignment and the Moon pa...

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Why India needs political change to retain women in STEM

Why India needs political change to retain women in STEM

Gender diversity widens the range of questions that the scientific enterprise tr...

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