The laser Raman instrument facility at the Department of Geology, which is funded by the DST-FIST. Photo credit: PIB Researchers from Keralam have identified two key minerals in parts of Tamil Nadu and the Atacama Desert in Chile, which reflect geological, chemical and physical similarities with Mars, and have helped establish these areas as Martian analogue...
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October 20, 2026October 20, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
What are ‘heat storms’?
People sit in the shade on the Spanish Steps during a heatwave in Rome, Italy, August 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Heat waves have evolved from sporadic, isolated episodes to massive, cascading weather events that can blanket vast swaths of the planet for months or even years at a time. To continue calling such...
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October 20, 2026October 20, 2026Science & Tech
Scientists unearth new instance of ‘contagious cancer’ in animals
Ordinarily, cancers are not regarded as contagious — whereas AIDS, COVID-19, tuberculosis, and malaria are. Contagious diseases spread from one person to another through direct contact, airborne droplets or through insect vectors (like mosquitoes). On the other hand, cancers originate from one of the patient’s own cells. However, so far, scientists have documented three instances...
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October 20, 2026October 20, 2026Science & Tech
Why is glass transparent?
Glass has a disordered atomic structure, meaning its atoms don’t have a regularly repeating arrangement. | Photo Credit: Rob Wingate/Unsplash — Manda Venkata Apparao, Hyderabad Glass is transparent for two reasons. First, light carries energy in small packets called photons. Electrons in atoms can absorb these photons and move from one energy level to another...
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October 20, 2026October 20, 2026Science & Tech
India’s first solar mission Aditya-L1 generates Doppler velocity images of the solar corona
ISRO’s Solar Mission Aditya-L1 entering Halo Orbit. File | Photo Credit: ANI Scientists have generated Doppler velocity images of activities taking place in the solar corona using data obtained with the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payload onboard India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1. The Aditya-L1 satellite generates Doppler velocity images of the solar corona, and...
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October 20, 2026October 20, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Bleached corals brought back to luminous life, in two lab experiments
A staggering 80 per cent of the world’s vibrant coral reefs experienced extreme levels of heat stress from warming oceans between 2023 and 2025, exacerbated by the 2023 El Niño. Swathes of reefs were struck by bleaching and mortality, and India’s corals were no exception in this fourth global mass coral bleaching event in recorded history. Lakshadweep...
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October 19, 2026October 19, 2026Science & Tech
Ex-OpenAI employee accused of planting device appears to have Saudi backing, court filing shows
A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a television where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document after U.S. federal agents the man and charged him with installing...
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October 19, 2026October 19, 2026Science & Tech
Government asks Meta to ensure its recommendation systems do not expose users to limited set of narratives
The government has asked Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook, to ensure that its recommendation systems do not result in “disproportionate exposure of users to a single or limited set of narratives,” and to step up checks on content that could cause public disorder or incite violence or other unlawful activity. The advisory by the...
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October 19, 2026October 19, 2026Science & Tech
Russian military satellite makes ‘close approach’ to U.S. radar satellite in orbit
Representative illustration. Without knowing more about what Cosmos-2612 is capable of, it remains hard to say what it ultimately plans to do. | Photo Credit: Image created with AI Russia and Ukraine are at war on the ground — and two satellites around 550 km above have come to the centre of a similar confrontation....
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October 19, 2026October 19, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Analysis reveals fraudulent ‘paper mill’ activity across over 4,000 cancer research articles
Across leading cancer journals, clusters of interconnected papers bearing the hallmarks of paper mill products accumulate far more citations than other papers despite having fewer readers, the authors wrote |Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: Getty Images An analysis of 33,159 cancer journal articles revealed tell-tale patterns of fake citation numbers across 4,000...
