Category: Science

A flood-like situation in a village in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, following heavy rains is seen in this July 8, 2025, photograph. | Photo Credit: PTI Flood hazard assessments for Uttarakhand have routinely underestimated the danger to its towns and villages because they have leaned on long-term average rainfall figures rather than the extreme downpours that actually…

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The British natural historian David Attenborough turns 100 today. It is likely no one has done more to make the non-human world more legible and loveable to mass audiences. Attenborough’s career as a host, starting with Zoo Quest in 1954, spans seven decades and nine documentary series. His influence on how several generations of people…

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Silhouetted against the blazing sun, a man drinks water near Charminar amid heatwave conditions in Hyderabad, April 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR/The Hindu The sky’s blue is due to Rayleigh scattering — when molecules in the air scatter light of shorter wavelength (bluer) much more efficiently than that of longer ones. On hotter…

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Industrial decarbonisation is often framed through solutions that promise deep emissions reduction, e.g. green hydrogen and carbon capture. These pathways are essential, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors, but are still several years away from large-scale adoption Industry accounted for nearly half of India’s final energy consumption in 2025, much of it still tied to fossil fuels….

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A staff member rests as children play games at a RedClaw AI promotion booth set up outside a shopping mall in Beijing on March 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get help with installing an artificial…

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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

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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