GUWAHATI A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks designed to keep buildings naturally cool, offering a solution for sustainable construction. The researchers are Bitupan Das, Urbashi Bordoloi, Pushpendra Singh, and Pankaj Kalita of the IIT-G’s School of Energy Science and Engineering and the School of Agro...
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March 27, 2026March 27, 2026Children, Science & Tech
T. K. Radha: from Kerala to Oppenheimer
In the late 1930s, in a small corner of Thayyur, Thrissur, a couple had their third girl child, and no one ever predicted that she would later become one of the first Indian women and Malayali to meet the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. This is the story of T.K Radha. Growing...
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March 27, 2026March 27, 2026Science & Tech
Why forcing employees to use AI is producing the opposite of what companies want
The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived. Paper files gave way to desktops. Desktops to laptops. Laptops to phones that did almost everything. I remember being handed a BlackBerry...
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March 27, 2026March 27, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Explained: What is Shigella infection?
(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here .) Last week, an 11-year-old boy died in Kozhikode, Kerala due to a Shigella infection . The State Health Department said that six people had been confirmed as having...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech
Science Snapshots: March 29, 2026
Microgravity can alter sperm’s ability to navigate Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. They found microgravity impaired sperm’s ability to navigate but also that high doses of progesterone could partially reverse this impairment. Up to 24 hours of microgravity also delayed...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech
Milkweed is a toxic treat for monarch butterflies
Canopied with vibrant little star-shaped flowers, the tropical milkweed shrub is a favourite of millions of migrating monarch butterflies in America, which lay their eggs on them, feed on their leaves and stems as caterpillars, and then as strikingly patterned butterflies, feast on the flowers’ nectar, among other plants. The plant does more for the...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech, Society
The Indian scientist couple history forgot — and the new study bringing their ‘Jeewanu’ back to life
It was early 2023. In a ground-floor laboratory at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in north Bengaluru, Ph.D candidate Nayan Chakraborty was readying to examine the results of another iteration of an experiment he had been attempting for three months. There was no reason to believe this trial, nearly his 1,000th, would be...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech
Jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial
A Los Angeles jury found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for $3 million in damages on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit. The outcome could influence thousands of similar cases against the tech companies brought by parents, attorneys general and school districts. At least half of American teens use YouTube...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech
An energy transition driven by ethics
“Fossil fuel dependency is ripping away national security and sovereignty, and replacing it with subservience and rising costs,” UN climate change arm executive secretary Simon Stiell told European Union officials and Ministers in Brussels on March 16, 2026, against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war. He added that the disruption serves as an “abject lesson” on the pitfalls...
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March 26, 2026March 26, 2026Science & Tech
Private member bill seeks to establish central optical devices quality control and vision care regulation
Seeking to establish central optical devices quality control and vision care regulation a private member bill has been introduced in Parliament recently. The proposed bill, introduced by MP Ajeet Madhavrao Gopchade, seeks to offer remedy to the alleged vulnerability of consumers who according to the bill are in a “no-man’s land” between the manufacture of a lens and...
