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A brown anole. | Photo Credit: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA) Picture a lizard the length of your finger clinging to a tree branch. The cause of its desperation is a 265 km/hr wind tearing through the air, threatening to peel it off like a loose sticker. Just this happened twice in two weeks to…
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Priya walks into an orthopaedician’s clinic with knee pain that she says she has had for three months. The doctor spends eight minutes with her, orders an MRI, and asks her to come back with the images. The MRI shows signs of early osteoarthritis. The doctor lists three options: injections, physiotherapy or wait and watch….
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The Falcon 9 rocket whose upper stage is going to crash on the moon (right) and the location of Einstein crater on the moon. | Photo Credit: NASA and Magere Hein (CC BY-SA) Astronomers are closely monitoring a SpaceX rocket stage that is on the way to striking the moon. This Falcon 9 rocket had…
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For centuries, diamonds have been regarded as symbols of eternal love, characterised by their rarity, scintillation and lustre. But behind the glamour of these stones lies a cold, hard truth: an industry plagued by forced labour, civil violence, and pollution. Some of the world’s largest diamond mines, such as the Argyle mine in Australia and…
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This aerial photograph taken from a French Civil Security rescue coordination helicopter shows a Turkish Air Tractor AT-802F Fire Boss amphibious water bomber A-172 dropping a load of water over a wildfire in south-western France on July 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Water-bombing aircraft resumed firefighting operations in Greece on Monday after winds eased,…
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An 18th century portrait of an Inca king. Smallpox caused Indigenous populations in South America to collapse following contact with Europeans because they .lacked natural immunity. | Photo Credit: Brooklyn Museum Study ‘proves’ colonists brought smallpox to South America Scientists have found direct molecular evidence that European colonisers brought smallpox to South America after recovering…
Representative image of the Tata Instityte of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. India is spending a historically unprecedented, but otherwise still insufficient, amount of money on scientific research. | Photo Credit: TIFR/Special arrangement Recent reports of nearly 120 scientists resigning from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have rightly raised concerns. ISRO has been a symbol of…
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S. Somanath, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told The Hindu that scientific missions ought to be more important in the future. Excerpts: The LVM3 launch vehicle successfully placed 36 satellites of the privately owned OneWeb consortium. However, you have recently indicated that the Chandrayaan-3 mission (to place a rover on the moon)…
Back-scattered electron image taken with a scanning electron microscope of the spheroidal hiroshimaite sample in which the allow was found. | Photo Credit: Bindi et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eaeg8299 (2026) Researchers have found a previously unknown metal alloy created by the blast of the Hiroshima atomic bomb in 1945. The material was found inside…
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The story so far: The Union Cabinet has cleared the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY), a central-sector scheme to build 5,000 MW of floating solar photovoltaic (FSPV) capacity on India’s reservoirs and waterbodies. It carries a total outlay of ₹5,070 crore and offers Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of up to ₹1 crore per MW,…
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