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Go ahead, try tickling the arch of your foot or your ribs right now. Does it work? Probably not. Yet, if a friend did the exact same thing, you’d likely be squirming, giggling, and begging them to stop. Why does the same physical touch produce such wildly different results? Source link
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at the inauguration of the IIT Madras Technology Summit 2026, in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Despite significant investments, such as a proposed ₹1 lakh crore research and development fund for the private sector and startups, much of the technology developed by Indian talent abroad is being bought…
In 1988, a landmark paper appeared in the journal Cell. It showed that in around 95% of pancreatic cancers, a gene called KRAS carried mutations at a particular location. The paper was a watershed moment in cancer research since it was one of the first demonstrations of a mutation with near-universal frequency identified in a…
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Women spend long hours cooking in open or semi-covered areas, which increases the risk of heat stress and illness during peak summer. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: MOHD ARIF When temperatures rise across Telangana, the heat is not experienced equally. Step into a typical household in summer, and the…
File photo of a caracal. Only around 50 caracals remain in India, according to surveys. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Officials have confirmed the return of the rare caracal in the Thar Desert near the India-Pakistan border, raising fresh hopes for conservation of the highly elusive, and critically endangered species. The officials spotted two…
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Scientists examine a specialised refrigerator for cooling quantum computing chips at the Google Quantum AI lab in California, U.S., November 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS What is the world’s next great frontier in technology? There are multiple contenders: artificial general intelligence, programmable biology, sustainable energy, metamaterials, human-machine interfaces, and quantum computing. The future could…
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A robotic metamaterial spells the word ‘LEARN’. A metamaterial is a special material whose properties are not determined by its chemical composition alone but also by its structure, giving rise to unusual properties. | Photo Credit: Coulais Lab/University of Amsterdam When you exercise, your muscles become stronger. When you sow a plant, its stem will…
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A wealthy person can afford ₹50,000 a year to catch one cancer earlier, which is an excellent personal return on investment. But a government screening 1 lakh women would spend ₹500 crore and catch 20-30 cancers earlier. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: navymedicine/Unsplash Medicine treats the evaluation of emerging technologies as a technical problem, but…
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Wastewater monitoring can became a dependable indicator of community transmission. File photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: The Hindu Wastewater surveillance in Bengaluru closely tracked COVID-19 trends during the first Omicron wave, but later emerged as an important tool in identifying hidden surges that were not fully captured through routine clinical testing,…
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J. Craig Venter before a gene map of a flu-causing bacterium at his office in Rockville, Md., March 12, 1997. File | Photo Credit: AP J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died on Wednesday (April 30, 2026). He was 79….
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