A massive decline in bovine milk production in India, especially among buffaloes in the trans-Gangetic plains of northwestern India — one of the country’s biggest sources of milk — has now been attributed to climate change. The phenomenon has a profound impact on the milk industry that caters to consumers every day. While climate change significantly undermines livestock...
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July 5, 2026July 5, 2026Science & Tech
Gaganyaan mission: ISRO successfully conducts first SOLVE ground test
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully carried out the first ground test of the Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle for Experiments (SOLVE) solid motor was carried out successfully at the Static Test Facility, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The Gaganyaan Story: A glimpse into India’s human spaceflight programme The SOLVE solid motor is a key...
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July 5, 2026July 5, 2026Science & Tech
New synthetic cell can eat, grow, divide
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have developed a synthetic cell that can grow and divide. The team ‘started’ the cell as a liposome, a small bubble made of fats. Inside was a protein-making system called PURE, which contained all the necessary ‘machinery’ for the cell to turn DNA into proteins. The DNA consisted of...
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July 5, 2026July 5, 2026Science & Tech
Science Snapshots: July 5, 2026
Planet shows a star’s death doesn’t have to doom its worlds Using the Webb telescope, scientists have discovered an atmosphere around WD 1856 b, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf — the first time an atmosphere has been found on a world orbiting a dead star. The atmosphere has hydrocarbons and clouds of aerosols....
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July 4, 2026July 4, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Indian scientists recreate key functions of human Placenta on chip
Before a baby’s first breath, life depends on an extraordinary organ that most people rarely think about — the placenta. Acting as the baby’s first life-support system, the placenta delivers oxygen and nutrients, removes waste products, protects the developing foetus and produces hormones essential for sustaining pregnancy. Yet, despite its critical role in human development,...
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July 4, 2026July 4, 2026Science & Tech
As monsoon rains falter, Wayanad farmers in Kerala fear poor harvest
Rows of Robusta coffee plants, pepper vines winding around trees and fruit-laden exotic plants lend a picture-postcard charm to Baby John’s 6.5-acre plantation at Ambalavayal in Wayanad, Kerala. But beneath the lush green canopy, the signs of a faltering monsoon are unmistakable. Pepper spikes have emerged but remain underdeveloped, coffee berries are developing unevenly, and...
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July 3, 2026July 3, 2026Science & Tech
Could this asteroid be a piece of the moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out
The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks also take a year to complete a full orbit. Today, we know of eight such “quasi-moons” or quasi-satellites. One of them may,...
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July 3, 2026July 3, 2026Science & Tech
Watch: The science and strides of India’s solar powerhouse
Script and presentation: Sandhya Ramesh Editing: Niranjan Jayakanth R. Visuals: Sambavi P.
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July 3, 2026July 3, 2026Science & Tech
World’s largest science machine faces tough question: after the Higgs boson, what next?
The heatwave sapping Europe this June does not spare CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), whose dull grey buildings give little hint of the underground that sets the lab apart from any other hive of colossal engineering on earth. Here, in tunnels beneath the Franco-Swiss border, physicists drive protons — among the particles at the...
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July 3, 2026July 3, 2026Science & Tech
Obaid Siddiqi lectures to commence in Bengaluru this July
The Obaid Siddiqi Lectures, a series of annual lectures delivered by the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS, will be held in the city this week. The lectures will be delivered by Dr. Samira Sheikh, a historian of South Asia and Associate Professor of History at...
