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According to OpenAI, Axios, a widely used third-party developer library, was compromised on March 31 [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios and is taking steps to protect the process that certifies its macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps. The…
Alexis Carrel’s work showed how damaged vessels could be repaired and even replaced, laying the foundation for modern organ transplantation | Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Soumyadip Sinha The 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alexis Carrel “in recognition of his work on vascular suturing and the transplantation of blood vessels and…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto GUWAHATI A report on bats in India has recommended a systematic quantification of guano, or accumulated bat poop, and its nutritional value compared to existing bio-fertilisers. Farmers in India do not fancy guano as an alternative to chemical fertilisers as much as their counterparts…
On April 9, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the emperor penguin to be an endangered species. | Photo Credit: KSL A sentinel species is a species whose members’ health signals the condition of the ecosystem in which they live. Scientists monitor them because they are among the first to respond to stressors…
A colorised scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, shown in gold, interacting with a human neutrophil, in red. | Photo Credit: NIAID Men experience more skin infections than women — doctors have known this for a while. They have proposed both behavioural and physiological reasons for this difference but the exact mechanism…
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Research is revealing that the molecular profile of each tea variety is influenced by every phase of production, from the soil the bush grows in to the way the leaves are dried, rolled or heated. And these molecular patterns correspond to features tea drinkers care about Source link
A view of night lights in India in 2016. | Photo Credit: NASA Night time lights are not just getting brighter New data challenge the traditional view that nightlights are becoming brighter everywhere. Based on satellite data from 2014 to 2022 of artificial nightlight, researchers found a nightscape both brightening and dimming. While global brightening,…
A massive turbine-generator of the 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), in Kalpakkam. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu A fast breeder reactor (FBR) gets its name from two features. First, it ‘breeds’ more nuclear fuel than it consumes. Second, it uses fast neutrons — ones that haven’t been slowed — to initiate nuclear fission….
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Representative picture. | Photo Credit: Creative Commons Bill Murray has once said, “If Google does not know the answer, it is not a question.” Even though an absolutely untrue quote, it definitely makes one wonder what all the internet knows. An encyclopedia larger than any book at your fingertips, that’s what the internet is. However,…
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya speaks during a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters From admiring rocket launches as a child growing up in Houston to steering the operations at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Indian-American scientist Amit Kshatriya has…