A worrying new trend of ‘fake patents’, in which education companies sell thousands of patents registered in the U.K. to academics from India and elsewhere, has raised concerns among research integrity experts. The issue of ‘fake patents’ was flagged in a report published in the International Journal of Educational Integrity. Its authors, from the U.K....
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June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Science & Tech
Watch: What is ammonia poisoning?
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June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Kingmakers: Meet the insects that make India’s famed mangoes
More than a thousand varieties of mangoes exist in India, the popular ones being Banganapalli, Dassheri, Alphonso, Badaami, Imaam Pasandh, and Mulgoa. There is even a “Lalbagh” variety in Bengaluru. Many of us associate the fruit with a summer childhood memory, of eating it with our bare hands, the mango juice dripping on our clothes....
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June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Need forces DR Congo gold miners to keep working despite Ebola
In the mines of Mongbwalu, the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the northeastern Democratic Republic Congo, gold prospectors have no choice but to overcome their fear of the virus and carry on their backbreaking work. “Ebola is real and it scares us. But if I stay at home, what are my children going to...
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June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Bird flocks soar through the sky like a liquid, atomic orchestra
Birds fly in flocks, fish swim in schools. What bonds them together, without dispersal or collision? Mathematicians from New York University (NYU) explained the method to the madness: the animals move in tandem, like an orchestra with a maestro leading them. A bird’s flapping wings, for instance, produces “vortex wakes” (or travelling waves) with each...
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June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Science & Tech
Discovery of new moth genus in Kerala’s Idukki highlights Western Ghats’ hidden biodiversity
A team of researchers has discovered a new genus and species of tiger moth from the southern Western Ghats. Published in the internationally renowned, peer-reviewed Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, the new species has been named Antaram idukki. Belonging to the tiger moth subfamily Arctiinae (Erebidae), the species was discovered in Kerala’s Idukki district. Antaram idukki...
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June 23, 2026June 23, 2026Science & Tech
BRICS space agencies meet begins in Bengaluru
The two day BRICS Heads of Space Agencies (HOSA) 2026 meet began on Tuesday in Bengaluru. India, as Chair of BRICS for 2026, is hosting HOSA and heads and senior representatives of the space agencies of the 11 BRICS member countries — Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and...
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June 23, 2026June 23, 2026Science & Tech
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is much older than the solar system itself
Scientists studying the comet 3I/ATLAS have determined that this interstellar visitor is remarkably ancient – formed an estimated 10 to 12 billion years ago in a primordial planetary system – and has a composition unlike anything in our solar system. An evaluation of the chemical make-up of 3I/ATLAS – only the third interstellar object ever...
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June 23, 2026June 23, 2026Science & Tech
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS found to be up to 12 billion years old
Scientists studying the comet 3I/ATLAS have determined that this interstellar visitor is remarkably ancient – formed an estimated 10 to 12 billion years ago in a primordial planetary system – and has a composition unlike anything in our solar system. An evaluation of the chemical make-up of 3I/ATLAS – only the third interstellar object ever...
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June 23, 2026June 23, 2026Science & Tech
The strange link between AI hallucination and creativity
In the prologue to his 1989 book The Emperor’s New Mind, the Nobel laureate Roger Penrose narrates a story. At a grand public ceremony, an ultimate supercomputer is switched on for the first time before a packed auditorium. It is the most powerful machine ever built, designed to answer any question put to it. The...
