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Education: Why India needs to radically think its doctoral education programmes

March 4, 2026 admin

The recent announcement that China awarded its first “practical PhDs”, doctoral degrees conferred for tangible products rather than traditional research papers, is a timely catalyst for a long-overdue conversation on the relevance, design, and culture of PhD education in India. In China’s new model, doctoral candidates are evaluated on working prototypes and real-world applications instead…

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Education: Why India needs to radically think its doctoral education programmes

March 4, 2026 admin

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In pictures: Lunar eclipse enthrals skywatchers across India and the globe

March 3, 2026 admin

A total lunar eclipse occured on March 3, 2026, and skywatchers in many places in India and across the world were able to view the celestial spectacle. The last lunar eclipse was visible in India in the intervening night of September 7, 2025 and September 8, 2025. The next lunar eclipse will be visible from…

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What is a megamaser?

March 3, 2026 admin

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From lapis-laden trade routes to mass armies: the changing value of blue

March 2, 2026 admin

From the lapis-laden trade routes of the Bronze Age, blue travelled east and west, carrying with it power, devotion, and value. By the Kushan period, between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE, ultramarine pigment was extracted from Afghan lapis lazuli through a complex and painstaking process of crushing it carefully and treating it with beeswax…

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How the next major breakthrough in cancer could come from India

March 2, 2026 admin

Modern cancer research is closely linked to the study of genes, with a particular focus on variants. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, nearly 20 million new cancer cases were recorded in 2022, with the figure projected to surpass 35 million annually…

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Science Snapshots: March 1, 2026

March 2, 2026 admin

Using data from NASA’s MAVEN mission, scientists have detected a type of radio wave called a whistler. | Photo Credit: NASA Radio whistles are first clear sign of Mars lightning Scientists have reported the first clear evidence of lightning on Mars. Using data from NASA’s MAVEN mission, they detected a type of radio wave called…

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Team aims world’s smallest QR code at long-term data storage

March 2, 2026 admin

The team tests the QR code. | Photo Credit: TU Wien By shrinking a QR code to the size of a microbe, researchers from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the German-Austrian start-up Cerabyte have shown that the future of the digital world could depend on ceramics, one of the oldest and most…

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How landscape memory, hysteresis shape the way Indian cities flood

March 2, 2026 admin

Rain comes down steadily, painting the skies a dull grey and sending a chill breeze wafting through the windows of high-rise buildings. On the street below, water creeps out of cracks and pores. Next to the highway lies a lake but the boundary between water and land has blurred. What was once contained spreads across…

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Artificial Intelligence: What water turning to vapour and the way AI learns have in common

March 2, 2026 admin

Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini often give the impression that there’s a mind at work within the machine. These days they “think” in response to queries, go back and correct themselves, apologise for mistakes, and mimic many tics of human communication. There’s no direct physical evidence to this day that a…

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