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IIT Guwahati team develops energy-efficient bricks

March 27, 2026 admin

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks. | Photo Credit: The Hindu GUWAHATI A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks designed to keep buildings naturally cool, offering a solution for sustainable construction. The researchers are Bitupan Das,…

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T. K. Radha: from Kerala to Oppenheimer

March 27, 2026 admin

Professor Einstein (left) tells Dr. Robert Oppenheimer about his attempts to explain matters in terms of space. Picture taken in 1949 when Dr. Oppenheimer was Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives In the late 1930s, in a small corner of Thayyur, Thrissur, a couple had…

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Why forcing employees to use AI is producing the opposite of what companies want

March 27, 2026 admin

Psychological safety is the condition underneath all the others, the ground on which everything else gets built [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived….

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Explained: What is Shigella infection?

March 27, 2026 admin

(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here .) Last week, an 11-year-old boy died in Kozhikode, Kerala due to a Shigella infection . The State Health Department said that six people had been confirmed as having…

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Science Snapshots: March 29, 2026

March 26, 2026 admin

Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. Representative image. | Photo Credit: AP Microgravity can alter sperm’s ability to navigate Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. They found…

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Science for all newsletter Milkweed is a toxic treat for monarch butterflies

March 26, 2026 admin

A steroidal cocktail of chemicals in the plant both nurtures and negatively impacts monarch caterpillars. | Photo Credit: AP Canopied with vibrant little star-shaped flowers, the tropical milkweed shrub is a favourite of millions of migrating monarch butterflies in America, which lay their eggs on them, feed on their leaves and stems as caterpillars, and…

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The Indian scientist couple history forgot — and the new study bringing their ‘Jeewanu’ back to life

March 26, 2026 admin

It was early 2023. In a ground-floor laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in north Bengaluru, Ph.D candidate Nayan Chakraborty was readying to examine the results of another iteration of an experiment he had been attempting for three months. There was no reason to believe this trial, nearly his 1,000th, would be…

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An energy transition driven by ethics

March 26, 2026 admin

“Fossil fuel dependency is ripping away national security and sovereignty, and replacing it with subservience and rising costs,” UN climate change arm executive secretary Simon Stiell told European Union officials and Ministers in Brussels on March 16, 2026, against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war. He added that the disruption serves as an “abject lesson” on the pitfalls…

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Private member bill seeks to establish central optical devices quality control and vision care regulation

March 26, 2026 admin

Image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Seeking to establish central optical devices quality control and vision care regulation a private member bill has been introduced in Parliament recently. The proposed bill, introduced by MP Ajeet Madhavrao Gopchade, seeks to offer remedy to the alleged vulnerability of consumers who according to the bill…

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What is mineral water and how does it naturally contain dissolved minerals?

March 26, 2026 admin

Millions of people around the world drink mineral water every day because their tap water is unsafe or because they prefer the taste. It’s packed with naturally occurring minerals that support bone and muscle health and governments and health organisations promote it as a clean, reliable source of hydration. What is mineral water? Mineral water…

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