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During the heatwave days of 2024, it links about 26,500 deaths from ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to ozone exposure. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu While surface ozone — a pollutant harmful to the heart and lungs — already exceeds safe limits across much of India in the hot pre-monsoon…
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Sleep, especially of good quality, is essential to maintain a healthy brain and body. However, millions worldwide suffer from sleep disorders that can impair concentration, memory, and mood and increase health risks, including of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and neurological issues. Sleep disorders stem from medical conditions, mental health issues, genetic predispositions, and lifestyle and…
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On June 4 2026, a paper was published in the journal Cell, in which researchers from The Francis Crick Institute, University College London and elsewhere, identified a set of blood proteins that appeared to predict lung cancer five years before it became clinically apparent. In addition, the researchers proposed that a human monoclonal antibody called…
Bangladesh recently approved the construction of the Padma barrage. The barrage is intended to control the Padma river, which is the name of the Ganga in Bangladesh, and abate the country’s seasonal water scarcity. The 2.1-km-long structure will store 2,900 million cu. m of water to serve 6.5 crore people across southwestern and northern Bangladesh….
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Rain pours misery on a horse in Bengaluru on June 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN/The Hindu Of late, increasingly concentrated rainfall and violent floods have devastated India’s cities and farms alike. For years, scientists have debated whether this is simply natural variation or the direct result of climate change. A new study in…
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Traditionally, many conservationists and policymakers have seen biodiversity conservation as a choice between protecting nature and meeting human needs. Forests were often seen as places that had to be protected from people, while alleviating poverty and economic development were treated as separate concerns. A new international study has concluded that this is a harmful view….
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I am an oncologist. I have watched large language models (LLMs) do something I have been trying to do for years: make cancer comprehensible. A patient sits across from me with newly diagnosed cancer. I used to explain the PDL1 status and the role of neoadjuvant therapy, where patients get immunotherapy first followed by surgery…
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A global map of the density of AM fungi. | Photo Credit: Truth & Beauty/Moritz Stefaner Justin Stewart, SPUN A new study published in Science has reported the first global map of the earth’s vast underground network of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These fungi have sustained plant life for millions of years but their scale…
The recent death of two people in Brazil during its dengue vaccination campaign, leading to the shot’s suspension on June 8, is a crucial wake-up call for India. This is because the dengue vaccine in Brazil, Butantan-DV, is pretty similar, if not identical, to India’s soon-to-be-launched dengue vaccine, DengiAll. Both the Brazilian and Indian vaccines…
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On the tip of each arm, the chocolate-chip sea star has a skeletal part that contains an array of cone-shaped structures that transmit 70% of incident light. | Photo Credit: Rob (CC BY) Sea star sports nature’s optic fibres to focus light A remarkable structure in the chocolate-chip sea star (Protoreaster nodosus) has come to…