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What happens when public knowledge is created on private infrastructure?

November 11, 2025 admin

Over the past year, a considerable amount of recognition for machine learning (ML) has gone to researchers working in or alongside large technology firms, even as recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been financed and built on corporate infrastructure. In 2024, the Nobel Foundation awarded the physics prize to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton…

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Update textbooks? Altermagnetism emerges as a new class of magnetic order

November 10, 2025 admin

For well over a century, our understanding of the magnetic world had been neatly compartmentalised into two categories: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Ferromagnetism, which is the familiar force that pins a souvenir magnet to a refrigerator door, arises because many small, atom-scale magnetic moments are aligned in parallel, creating a strong, external magnetic field. Antiferromagnetism, its…

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Climate Change and Climate Justice: India’s efforts to balance economic growth with green transition

November 10, 2025 admin

File image for respresentational purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah Development goals don’t always have to undermine environmental concerns. As the fourth largest economy in the world, and one of the top polluters, India cannot shy away from climate action citing historical reasons and pointing fingers at the industrialised West. Indeed, India seems determined…

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Remembering V. Rajaraman, a tireless evangelist of computer education

November 10, 2025 admin

V. Rajaraman | Photo Credit: V. Rajaraman Among the few sectors of science and technology in which India has done remarkably well is software programming and services. Computer programming that started in a small way in academic institutions in the 1960s developed into a formidable industry within a few decades. This became possible due to…

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Remembering V. Rajaraman, a tireless evangelist of computer education in India

November 10, 2025 admin

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India’s place in the meandering life of the ‘Loss and Damage’ fund

November 10, 2025 admin

The journey towards recognising and addressing the disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable countries has been long and fraught with resistance. In 1991, Vanuatu, representing the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), first proposed the creation of an international climate fund to support nations most threatened by rising sea levels. However, entrenched opposition from…

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Early climate warning systems: getting there, but not there yet

November 10, 2025 admin

India’s geographical diversity and growing climate vulnerabilities place it squarely in the path of a wide array of natural hazards — most of them weather-related. From cyclones and floods to thunderstorms, lightning, and heat waves, the country faces year-round meteorological challenges that differ by region and season. In recent years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD)…

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As COP30 opens, report warns climate finance is failing global health systems

November 10, 2025 admin

The COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, in Belem, Brazil. The report warns that the world is critically under-investing in health systems needed to withstand climate impacts | Photo Credit: AP As COP30 begins on Monday (November 10, 2025) in Belém, Brazil, a new international report from adelphi, Europe-based independent think‑and‑do tank, has spotlighted a critical…

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COP30: a beginner’s guide on what to expect from the climate summit

November 10, 2025 admin

A decade has passed since the member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement — a milestone global pact that committed them to keeping the world’s average surface temperature from rising well under 2ºC and striving to limit it to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels. However, climate finance…

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Aditya-L1: IIA-NASA collaborate to record spectroscopic observations of a CME in visible wavelength range for very first time

November 9, 2025 admin

ndian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Aditya-L1, India’s maiden solar mission, on board PSLV-C57 lifts off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota in 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Using the VELC payload onboard India’s first dedicated space based solar mission, Aditya-L1, scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) along with…

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