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In this image provided by NASA, the Artemis II crew captured this view as the Earth sets behind the Moon during a lunar flyby, Monday, April 6, 2026. (NASA via AP) A unique lunar event, featuring a rare blue moon, is set to occur on Sunday (May 31, 2026), according to science experts and the…
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A Touch of Genius, a new anthology of the writings of “Indian Nobel laureates”, edited by historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee, is both nationalist and critical of nationalism — possibly by accident — and exists in an unresolved tension with itself. But first, Mukherjee’s introduction is absorbing. His use of Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between the hedgehog and…
A convoy escorting Pope Leo XIV drives past war-damaged buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, December 2025. | Photo Credit: AP You know how sometimes a road gets repaired just before a VIP is going to visit? Nadim Kobeissi, a computer science researcher at the American University of Beirut, used this to his country’s advantage. Sort of….
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The story so far: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) recently said that the exercise to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database under the Centre-backed Genome India Project is about two-thirds complete. About 7,000 Indian genomes have already been sequenced of which, 3,000 are available for public access by researchers. The proponents of…
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Boats on the Padma river in 1860. | Photo Credit: Public domain Bangladesh has approved a large river engineering project called the Padma barrage, on the Padma river, which is Bangladesh’s stretch of the Ganga, in Rajbari district. It is Bangladesh’s attempt to partially re-engineer the hydrology of its southwest region, which has become prone…
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The United States Government has released a new trove of documents on various cases of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAPs) – many of which would have been described in the past as Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs – including photos, videos and reports of unexplained events sighted in the sky and in space. The files detail…
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Indians typically have black hair, with grey appearing as a natural part of ageing. But red hair? The colour more commonly associated with Europeans has now been identified in a rare case in India, intriguing scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad. Their study was prompted by a striking case…
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You’re cooking dinner, distracted, and your hand brushes a hot pan. Nerve signals race to your spinal cord and back to yank your arm away in a fraction of a second, with no thought required. Then comes the pain. A sharp, spreading sting gives way to a pulsing ache, and you cradle your hand and…
At 4:40 a.m. on May 4, 2026, a 40-year-old man came to Khanna Sub-divisional Hospital’s emergency department with sweating and chest pain. Within minutes, the staff nurse and Emergency Medical Officer (EMO) had checked his heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and more importantly, conducted an electrocardiogram (ECG). The ECG result was sent on WhatsApp…
Read More “WhatsApp, training and tenecteplase injection bring heart attack care to rural Punjab” »