For a long time, biomechanics experts believed that giant, extinct kangaroos were simply too heavy to hop. While the largest modern kangaroos weigh around 90 kg, their prehistoric relatives were much larger and weighed more than 250 kg. And scientists previously calculated that if you took the anatomy of a modern kangaroo and scaled it...
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January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Science & Tech
Life pays universe a ‘heat tax’ to run precise chemical reactions
Living things dump a lot of heat into their surroundings. The universe is strict about conserving energy. If there’s a soup of cells and you make them settle down and work together in orderly fashion, you reduce the system’s entropy. In return you need to pay a ‘tax’ to the universe, to account for the...
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January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Science & Tech
Reviewer burnout drives AI use yet human oversight remains crucial
Shruti Kumar (name changed) is a professor at a medical research institute, working on diagnosing a neglected tropical disease that infects almost a million new people every year. Prof. Kumar said that with the increasing number of requests by scientific publishers to peer review research manuscripts in recent years, the process takes so much of...
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January 26, 2026January 26, 2026Children, Science & Tech
What is radioactive decay?
In a random moment, all energy is lost. The unstable subject cannot help but decay, slowly but surely, letting go of particles to become stable. It loses itself to become balanced again. This is a radioactive atom’s decay. Warning: Danger ahead Look at the periodic table down below. Other than the blue, all elements depict...
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January 26, 2026January 26, 2026Science & Tech
President Droupadi Murmu confers Ashoka Chakra to space hero Shubhanshu Shukla
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday (January 26, 2026) conferred India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS). The President presented the award to Mr. Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path,...
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January 26, 2026January 26, 2026Science & Tech
Shubhanshu Shukla, Group Captain, conferred Ashoka Chakra
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday (January 26, 2026) conferred India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS). The President presented the award to Mr. Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path,...
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January 25, 2026January 25, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Can India eliminate malaria by 2030? | Explained
The story so far: In 2016, under its National Framework for Malaria Elimination in India (2016-2030), India set an ambitious target to eliminate malaria (zero indigenous cases) by 2030, with an interim milestone of interrupting indigenous transmission across the entire country, including all high-transmission States and Union Territories (UT), by 2027. By the end of...
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January 23, 2026January 23, 2026Science & Tech
I will have FOMO: Just retired star astronaut Sunita Williams on Moon mission
Just retired NASA astronaut Sunita Williams said the upcoming Moon mission under the Artemis programme will give her FOMO (fear of missing out), even while she finds joy exploring Earth and all the places she glimpsed from up there in the sky. On the inaugural evening of the Kerala Literature Festival on Thursday (January 22,...
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January 23, 2026January 23, 2026Science & Tech
I will have FOMO: newly retired astronaut Sunita Williams on moon mission
Just retired NASA astronaut Sunita Williams said the upcoming Moon mission under the Artemis programme will give her FOMO (fear of missing out), even while she finds joy exploring Earth and all the places she glimpsed from up there in the sky. On the inaugural evening of the Kerala Literature Festival on Thursday (January 22,...
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January 23, 2026January 23, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Malaria: is Asia-Pacific on target towards elimination by 2030?
The World Malaria Report 2025, launched in December, provided a bag of mixed news, five years ahead of the 2030 global malaria elimination deadline. While the reduction in estimated cases in southeast Asia provided definite hope, of serious concern were rising cases of resistance to artemisinin-based frontline treatment for malaria, and falling funding for malaria programmes. Notably, it is the Asia Pacific region that posted much of the good news. The significant reduction was driven by 10 of...
