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India to submit updated climate targets to U.N. by December end: Bhupender Yadav

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India to submit updated climate targets to U.N. by December end: Bhupender Yadav

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav speaks during a plenary session at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, on November 17, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. | Photo Credit: AP India will declare its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) as well as issue its Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) by December end, Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav said in Belem,…

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Roundworms do inherit info on threats to avoid, but with a catch

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Roundworms do inherit info on threats to avoid, but with a catch

An image of Caenorhabditis elegans worms. | Photo Credit: Megha Rai/Special arrangement Animals often meet the same threats across generations. A central question in biology is whether experience with a threat can be passed from parents to offspring in a way that changes the latter’s behaviour. In the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, one such experience is…

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Precision biotherapeutics | Explained – The Hindu

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Precision biotherapeutics | Explained – The Hindu

Several medical treatments, particularly for genetic ailments, rely on symptomatic management instead of correcting the causative issue. Precision biotherapeutics bring together genetic science, molecular biology, and data analytics to design therapies that identify and rectify the cause of illness. What are precision biotherapeutics? Precision biotherapeutics refers to medical interventions—drugs, therapies, or biological products—that are designed…

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Surprise: reading a quantum clock can cost more than keeping it ticking

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Surprise: reading a quantum clock can cost more than keeping it ticking

Time for us is a constant, relentlessly moving forward. The ticking of a clock on the wall, the steady march of seconds on a digital display — they’re such familiar concepts that we rarely stop to consider the physical processes that underpin them. At its heart, any clock is a physical system that evolves in…

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Ultrasonic vibrations hold key to precision drilling in brittle materials, IIT Bombay study finds

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Ultrasonic vibrations hold key to precision drilling in brittle materials, IIT Bombay study finds

Drilling microscopic holes in brittle materials like glass and ceramics, essential for smartphones, medical devices, and microfluidic chips, has long posed a challenge for manufacturers. Conventional methods often crack the material or fail when debris clogs narrow, deep holes. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have demonstrated how ultrasonic-assisted electrochemical discharge machining (UA-ECDM)…

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Astronomers spot storm on another star for first time

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Astronomers spot storm on another star for first time

In 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space. This coronal mass ejection (CME) travelled at over 1,450 km per second. This event is depicted in this representative image. | Photo Credit: NASA Astronomers have said they have detected a storm on…

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ISRO to triple spacecraft output, launch Chandrayaan-4 in 2028: Chairman

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ISRO to triple spacecraft output, launch Chandrayaan-4 in 2028: Chairman

File photo of ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan | Photo Credit: PTI ISRO is gearing up for one of its busiest times with seven more launches planned this financial year, even as India’s first human spaceflight remains scheduled for 2027, its Chairman V. Narayanan said. In an interview with PTI, he said ISRO is preparing for…

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The anxious us: decoding anxiety in contemporary cultures of health

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The anxious us: decoding anxiety in contemporary cultures of health

Let us begin with a basic truism. Every age wants to believe that it is uniquely doomed. There is narcissistic self-love disguised as loathing, as well as an exaggerated projection of achievement bordering on destruction in that belief. Poets, writers, film-makers, culture-pundits, all invest various vocabularies of panic to creatively design doom stories, the more…

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The biological magic of shared laughter

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The biological magic of shared laughter

When laughter is shared in a social setting, it becomes louder and more frequent. | Photo Credit: Sabbir Bhuiyan/pexels In a study conducted by the German paediatric surgeon Winfried Barthlen, clowns were asked to interact with hospitalised children awaiting surgery. Not surprisingly, these children showed less anxiety after a happy session with a clown. An…

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Cancer to comics — Bengal researcher makes art out of science

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Cancer to comics — Bengal researcher makes art out of science

Argha Manna. Photo: https://csd.iitgn.ac.in/ From cancer to comics, from scientist to artist, from MIT to IIT — it has been an unusual journey for Bengal boy Argha Manna, who spent a chunk of his youth peering into the microscope but who later realised it was more fun spreading science through graphic art. On Saturday (November…

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