Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
Science
The snow leopard, the agile “ghost of the mountains” that inhabits the rugged ranges of 12 Asian countries, including India, has the lowest genetic diversity of any big cat species in the world, even lower than that of the dwindling cheetah. A new study led by researchers at Stanford University, published in Proceedings of the…
Read More “Snow leopards are the world’s least genetically diverse big cat” »
This image made from video provided by SpaceX shows Starship’s 11th flight test launching from Starbase, Texas. | Photo Credit: AP Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its eleventh Starship rocket from Starbase, Texas on Monday (October 13, 2025), a test mission to demonstrate the giant vehicle’s reusable design for lofting satellites and eventually taking humans to…
Read More “SpaceX launches another Starship rocket to test reusable design” »
The IUCN World Congress will drive action on nature-based recovery, climate change, and biodiversity. | Photo Credit: AFP Arctic seals and birds are coming under increasing threat, mainly due to climate change and human activity, according to an updated list of endangered species released Friday by the world’s top conservation body. The International Union for…
Read More “Seals, birds under threat in new ‘red list’ of endangered species” »
The company plans to launch 8-10 satellites over the next four years. | Photo Credit: GalaxEye website Space-tech start-up GalaxEye on Monday (October 13, 2025) said it will launch the world’s first multi-sensor Earth observation (EO) satellite ‘Mission Drishti’ in the first quarter of next year, marking the beginning of setting up a constellation of…
Read More “Space-tech firm GalaxEye to launch world’s first multi-sensor EO satellite in 2026” »
The naked mole rat is famous for living nearly 10x longer than other mammals of similar size. | Photo Credit: Tim Evanson The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a small, hairless rodent native to East Africa, and famous for living an astonishingly long time, up to around 37 years, nearly 10x longer than mammals…
Read More “Just four mutations help naked mole rats fix DNA and live longer” »
In March this year, the Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara found out over a Zoom call that he had been awarded the Abel Prize, one of mathematics’ highest honours, for “his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory”. Dr. Kashiwara had started developing parts of his Abel-winning work when he was 23. He is now…
Read More “Abel laureate Masaki Kashiwara changed how algebra meets analysis” »
The story so far: The Nobel Prize season for 2025 began with the announcement of the Physiology or Medicine Prize on October 6. The three awardees — U.S.-based researchers, Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, and Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi — were chosen for their “discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.” Their discovery enabled a fundamental understanding…
Read More “How is the immune system kept in check? | Explained” »
A sample of honey (L) besides the coloured ones. | Photo Credit: Reuters Imagine trying to collect some honey and finding it in colours of green, blue and the brightest hues you can find instead of the typical golden yellow. This was exactly the kind of fix that beekeepers in France found themselves in! The…
Air samples collected on clean days were often more toxic to lung cells than those collected on polluted days thanks to MCFPs, whose sources include vehicular emissions. | Photo Credit: Previn Samuel/Unsplash Governments and scientists often judge air quality by the amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in it. These particles can enter deep into…
Read More “Even on ‘clear’ days, the air can be chemically toxic” »
John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University, Connecticut and University of California, Santa Barbara), and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara) have shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. The prize recognises their contributions to experimentally demonstrating the manifestation of quantum effects in macroscopic systems, confirming our faith that…
Read More “2025 physics Nobel Prize: the magic of quantum pervades all scales” »