AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative of much news coverage of AI – described an OpenAI hacking as “A.I. bots going rogue and independently spearheading a cyberattack.” Name-brand artificial intelligence agents have been on a hacking spree in 2026. OpenAI’s software agents hacked...
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October 2, 2026October 2, 2026Science & Tech
CSIR-CCMB develops India-specific tool to predict sickle cell severity
Doctors may soon have a more reliable way to predict how severely sickle cell anaemia (SCA) will affect Indian patients, thanks to a new India-specific disease severity score developed by scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB). Potential impact of the India-specific tool The new tool, developed using clinical data from Indian...
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October 2, 2026October 2, 2026Science & Tech
Multiple Indian payloads launched by Space X’s Falcon 9
Multiple payloads developed by Indian companies were successfully deployed in orbit by Space X’s Falcon 9 in the early hours of October 2 from the Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, U.S.A., as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission. Dhruva Space’s Launching Expeditions for Aspiring Payloads (LEAP-2), hosting multiple...
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October 2, 2026October 2, 2026Science & Tech
G.P. Talwar at 100: scientist, institution builder, lifelong researcher
At any gathering, you could easily spot him by his colourful printed shirt or jacket. His tall stature, smiling face, and warm handshakes have put generations of students, researchers, and scientists at ease. Since 1956, when he joined the founding faculty of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, he has never...
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Science & Tech
Scientists can now measure the damage each new coal mine can do to people, nature
Scientists have long known every tonne of carbon dioxide matters to the climate. But governments keep approving new fossil fuel projects – even as climate change worsens. Until now, it’s been difficult to say how much damage and extra warming a specific project will do. Fossil fuel companies – and government agencies approving their projects...
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Science & Tech
Behind India’s record performance at International Math Olympiad 2024
Mathematics always interested 18-year-old Ananda Bhaduri. Growing up in Guwahati, he spent his formative years learning topics not generally covered in school curricula. Last year, he dove into the expansive archives of mathematics problems on the internet, carefully curating the hardest ones and solving them — sometimes in solitude, at others over online meetings with...
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Health, Science & Tech
What human brain tissue transplanted into mice showed us
A study published in September in Nature by neuroscientist Sergiu Pașca’s group at Stanford University reports an experiment that sounds almost like science fiction. Human brain tissue grown from stem cells was transplanted into mice in which much of the cerebral cortex had been genetically prevented from forming. The transplanted tissue grew into this vacant...
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Science & Tech
Ancient grasslands, once destroyed for development, can take 100 years to grow back
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Ancient grasslands, one of the least valued ecosystems, support a phenomenal diversity of wildlife, create livelihoods of billions of pastoralists, and store one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon. But they are often...
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
India’s river interlinks may carry invasive species to more areas
The National River-Linking Project is the world’s most ambitious project of its kind to date, proposing to link 37 major river basins across India using 30 links, potentially redistributing around 174 billion cubic metres of water from ‘surplus’ to ‘deficit’ basins while generating some 34,000 MW of power. Yet the Project has also raised serious...
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September 30, 2026September 30, 2026Science & Tech
What are the new guidelines set by IN-SPACe for Indian and foreign hosted-payloads | Explained
The story so far: The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) on September 17, 2026, released a document titled Norms, Guidelines and Procedures for implementation of the Indian Space Policy 2023 in respect of authorisation for establishment and operation of hosted-payloads. Why has IN-SPACe released the document ? IN-SPACe, which is the single-window...
