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Border Security Force (BSF) personnel patrol on a boat at Chenab river ahead of Diwali festival near India-Pakistan border on October 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI An apex committee of the Environment Ministry has accorded a fresh environmental clearance to the Sawalkote hydroelectric project, proposed to come up on Chenab river in Ramban, Jammu…
Academician and scientist P. Balaram speaking at a programme in SRM University-A.P. on Friday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution are closely linked with chemistry, said Padma Bhushan awardee P. Balaram. Delivering a lecture on “Evolutionary Inventions and Innovations That Drove the Rise of Chemistry, the Birth of Biology, and Determine Human History” at…
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Paleoseismology helps scientists understand how frequently large earthquakes have occurred in the past — especially in regions with incomplete or no historical seismic records. By studying traces of ancient earthquakes preserved in the ground, researchers can determine when they occurred, how strong they were, how often they might recur, and how geological faults evolve over…
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You are sitting in your class, and your teacher is writing on the board using chalk. Sqqqqquuuueeeaaakkkkk — there’s a sudden disturbance as the chalk scratches the board loudly. You automatically put your hands over your ears to escape the loud screeching noise. This is a common scenario you would have faced in your school….
Science quiz: Scientific terms that are palindromes Visual: In 1977, a telescope in the US picked up the signal whose intensity is depicted here. It’s been called the ____ signal because of its highly unusual strength and long duration. Such a signal has never been detected since and scientists are still looking for an explanation. …
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Onions cut by steel blades of varying sharpness and speed matter, according to a new study. | Photo Credit: Becca Tapert/Unsplash Onions eject eye-irritating chemicals that have a tear-inducing property. When you pierce the skin of an onion, you are left with stinging eyes caused by chemicals released from the onion that affect your nerves…
In 2010, India woke up to a scientific storm. A research paper published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases described a new enzyme that could make bacteria resistant to nearly all antibiotics, including our last-resort drugs. This enzyme was named New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase, or NDM. Overnight, the gene’s name became a political issue. The Indian government…
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Rich Lyons (right), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, hands a lifetime parking pass to John Clarke, an Emeritus Professor of Physics who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP The Nobel Prizes were announced this week. They have become a fixture of my professional life….
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also announced that real-time AI systems such as, such as Sansad Bhashini, will soon enable MPs to communicate in their native languages. File | Photo Credit: Allen Egenuse J. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla called on Commonwealth parliamentarians, on Thursday (October 9, 2025), to promote the responsible and ethical use…
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Much has been written about the universally loved Jane Goodall, primatologist and animal rights campaigner, on whom awards and honours far too numerous to list have been showered. She passed away on October 1 aged 91. One recognition, however, she did not but should have received is the Nobel Peace Prize. For all her life, Goodall worked for…
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