Pesticide residues do not arrive as a single dose. They arrive in a vegetable, a glass of water, and the air of a home, often on the same day, and none of India’s three major monitoring systems is built to add them up. In 2008, in the Orissa village of Sindhikela, village residents used pesticides...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
Celluloid story: An action-packed invention
There’s no doubting that the human species is now the most dominant one on planet Earth. That said, it does not go without saying that we shoulder that dominance responsibly. In fact, there’s growing evidence to the contrary. The debate as to whether it was humans or climate change that led to the extinction of...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
When might life on the earth end?
Researchers from the U.S. have estimated how long photosynthetic life will last on the earth. As the sun ages, it also becomes brighter, eventually emitting a colour too hot for plants to survive. Previous studies had tried to answer this question using simplified climate models, finding the biosphere’s twilight could occur in 100 million to...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
Finerenone helps slow kidney disease in patients without diabetes
In chronic kidney disease, the kidneys gradually lose their ability to filter waste from the blood. While diabetes is one of its leading causes, many patients develop the condition because of high blood pressure, autoimmune disorders or other conditions that damage the kidney’s filtering units. Doctors can slow the disease using medicines that lower blood...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
Mission Drishti, world’s first OptoSAR satellite from private Indian company, loses communication after solar storm
Mission Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite developed by Bengaluru-based space start-up GalaxEye, which was launched in May, encountered an anomaly following a geomagnetic solar storm during the final stage of the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP). Mission Drishti is also India’s largest privately developed Earth observation satellite. On July 7, GalaxEye provided an...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
How fossil fuels built the modern world | The Scope
Script and presentation: Sandhya Ramesh Editing: Niranjan Jayakanth R. Visuals: Sambavi P.
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
U.S. cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say
The U.S. cyber defence agency CISA is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to audit government software, three people familiar with the matter said on Monday, another sign of government enthusiasm for adopting the AI startup’s tools even as the company navigates an ongoing standoff with the White House. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
Why has the Centre issued a notice to Meta over Instagram? | Explained
The story so far The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has directed Meta to disable the advertisements and content on Instagram that allegedly promote or facilitate access to Child Sexual Exploitative and Abuse Material (CSEAM). The government has also sought a detailed explanation from the platform within seven days. Also read | IT...
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July 7, 2026July 7, 2026Science & Tech
Financial services AI dangers highlighted by UK regulator’s review
Britain’s financial regulator has been urged to consider regulation of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini because of their growing influence on consumer financial decisions. In a review commissioned by the Financial Conduct Authority and published on Monday, the watchdog’s executive director, Sheldon Mills, also highlighted how companies’ reliance on a handful...
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July 6, 2026July 6, 2026Science & Tech
Diamond jewellery, microart cast in shape of 18K gold rocket among payloads to be launched by Vikram-1
A diamond jewellery creation mounted on an aluminium base plate and a miniaturised artwork cast in the shape of a rocket using 18K gold are among the payloads which will be launched by India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, Vikram-1. Vikram-1 is expected to be launched some time between July 12 and August 4. On...
