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In a random moment, all energy is lost. | Photo Credit: Unsplash Images In a random moment, all energy is lost. The unstable subject cannot help but decay, slowly but surely, letting go of particles to become stable. It loses itself to become balanced again. This is a radioactive atom’s decay. Warning: Danger ahead Look…
In this screengrab from a video posted on January 26, 2026, President Droupadi Murmu confers India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla during the 77th Republic Parade, at Kartavya Path, in New Delhi. Pho(to Credit: YT/@NarendraModi via PTI President Droupadi Murmu on Monday (January 26, 2026) conferred India’s highest peacetime…
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The story so far: In 2016, under its National Framework for Malaria Elimination in India (2016-2030), India set an ambitious target to eliminate malaria (zero indigenous cases) by 2030, with an interim milestone of interrupting indigenous transmission across the entire country, including all high-transmission States and Union Territories (UT), by 2027. By the end of…
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Just retired NASA astronaut Sunita Williams said the upcoming Moon mission under the Artemis programme will give her FOMO (fear of missing out), even while she finds joy exploring Earth and all the places she glimpsed from up there in the sky. On the inaugural evening of the Kerala Literature Festival on Thursday (January 22,…
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The World Malaria Report 2025, launched in December, provided a bag of mixed news, five years ahead of the 2030 global malaria elimination deadline. While the reduction in estimated cases in southeast Asia provided definite hope, of serious concern were rising cases of resistance to artemisinin-based frontline treatment for malaria, and falling funding for malaria programmes. Notably, it is the Asia Pacific region that posted much of the good news. The significant reduction was driven by 10 of…
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Science quiz: on palaeoclimatology 1 / 6 | What’s the general name for formations like stalactites and stalagmites, which are formed when minerals slowly deposit at one location over a long period? 2 / 6 | An ___ ____ is a cylinder of ice that’s been drilled out of a larger mass. These objects have…
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The ‘sacred lotus’ plant is native to North and Central India and grows in ponds, lakes, and gently flowing waters. | Photo Credit: T. Voekler (CC BY-SA) Thermogenesis is the word for the way living things create their own body heat. While we usually only think of birds and mammals as being warm-blooded, all complex…
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Schizophrenia is usually described as a disorder of thought, perception, and behaviour — a disease of the brain. Yet for years, researchers have noticed a quieter, more persistent pattern in the lives of people with the condition. Compared to the general population, they are more likely to have weaker bones and to suffer fractures, in…
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Those who perform exceptionally well at a young age versus those who do so in adulthood are rarely the same people, according to a December 2025 study in Science. This means “most early top performers don’t become top performers at peak age, and … most top performers at peak age weren’t early top performers,” the…
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“Too good to be true! Is it really possible to get our cohorts on board? Is it really free? How do we get to use the facility?”. These were some of the questions clinicians, researchers and start-up founders raised, quite surprised after the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) revealed that it was ready…
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