Melanoma is one of the most dangerous common skin cancers. It starts in melanocytes, the skin cells that make melanin, the pigment that gives skin its colour. Cancer doesn’t appear overnight. A normal cell becomes cancerous in steps, as its DNA and its gene-control systems pick up changes over time. These changes push the cell...
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March 16, 2026March 16, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
The environment, another casualty of war in West Asia
From the jet fuel used in bombing raids to acrid smoke from burning oil depots, the conflict in West Asia is inflicting a significant toll on nature and the climate. US and Israeli aircraft use a considerable amount of fuel reaching the Gulf and flying sorties over Iran, said Benjamin Neimark at the Queen Mary...
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March 15, 2026March 15, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Remembering Rosalind Franklin, whose photograph was crucial to discovering DNA’s structure
For a discipline so wedded to reason and fact as science is, it has fiendishly guarded its gender bias. Over centuries, pioneering women in science have been ignored, their achievements overlooked or usurped by male colleagues, their names left out of scientific publications; they have been underpaid and undervalued, denied promotions and advancements in careers,...
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March 15, 2026March 15, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Ice patches on melting glaciers greater threat than thought: ISRO scientists
A new study by scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), published in NPJ Natural Hazards, examines the August 5, 2025 flash flood that destroyed Dharali village in Uttarakhand and killed six people. It sheds light on how warming temperatures affect glaciers, especially exposed ice patches on retreating glaciers, and highlights the need to...
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March 14, 2026March 14, 2026Science & Tech
Failure of atomic clock cripples ISRO’s NavIC system
The last atomic clock aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)-1F satellite has failed, ISRO has said in a statement. This further weakens the country’s indigenous ‘GPS’ system, informally called NavIC. Atomic clocks are critical to satellites being able to offer positional, navigational, and timing services. Since the first...
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March 14, 2026March 14, 2026Science & Tech
Pi Day 2026: significance of the mathematical constant π
Pi Day is observed every year on March 14, marking the significance of the mathematical constant π (pi). The day is commemorated by mathematics enthusiasts around the world in recognition of the subject’s enduring legacy. March 14 is chosen because the first three digits of π — 3.14159 — match the date 3/14. What is...
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March 13, 2026March 13, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Antibiotics can leave a long-term footprint on our gut microbiome: study
We have always known that antibiotics, life-saving drugs in serious infections, affect the composition of our gut microbiome (community of bacteria living in the gut). Now, scientists have found that certain types of antibiotics can be linked to changes that persist in the gut microbiome – and lower its diversity – for as long as...
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March 13, 2026March 13, 2026Science & Tech
What we call animals when they come together
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March 13, 2026March 13, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
LPG crisis: why it is important for India to electrify industrial heat
In the industrial town of Morbi in Gujarat, the air usually hums with the roar of gas-fired kilns producing millions of square metres of ceramic tiles. Today, however, nearly a quarter of the town’s ceramic units have gone silent. Nearly a thousand kilometres away in Ludhiana, Punjab, one of India’s largest hosiery and knitwear clusters...
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March 13, 2026March 13, 2026Science & Tech
Experts clash over HALEU-Th fuel for Indian nuclear reactors
A January report in the journal Current Science authored by scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has turned radioactive with one of India’s leading nuclear scientists characterising the conclusions of the report as “misleading.” The study compared the relative merits of different mixes of nuclear-power-grade uranium and concluded that a mix of concentrated...
