Category: Science & Tech

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced its 2026 laureates on April 18, awarding six prizes of $3 million each across life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics. The size of the total purse this year is $18.75 million. Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared one of the three life sciences prizes for their contributions to development...

— Gayatri Chandrashekar, Bengaluru A: Even if an animal is less intelligent than humans at particular tasks, it can still make complex decisions. An interesting one concerns how it searches for food.

Imagine living with constant pain every day. You have to plan your day around your pain: which shoes you can wear, how long you can sit, whether you can commute. While the physical aspect of pain is palpable, nearly 85% of chronic pain patients deal with an added emotional cost: depression.

For lakhs of young Indians, the national civil services examination is not just a test: it becomes part of who they are. More than 10 lakh aspirants take the examination every year. Many spend several years preparing, often relocating to coaching hubs such as Delhi and Hyderabad. With only around a thousand positions on offer,...

​Blue Origin on Sunday (April 19, 2026) said ‌its New Glenn rocket booster ​touched down after ⁠its launch, marking its first landing of a reused booster. New Glenn ‌carries AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite to ‌low-Earth orbit in a ‌flight ⁠that marks a pivotal step ⁠for the Jeff Bezos-led company.

During the day, land heats faster than the sea, pulling cool air onshore. At night, the land cools faster, so the air flows offshore. This is called the sea-land breeze. A new study in Nature Climate Change has reported that as the oceans become warmer, the sea-land breezes around coastal megacities are becoming weaker. In...

For decades, malaria control has worked by reducing the number of mosquitoes and treating infected people. As a result bed nets, indoor insecticide spraying, and effective medicines have saved millions of lives. Yet malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing more than half a million people each year, most of them children...

On April 16, the Indian government introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha: the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation Bill, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill. The proposed laws would expand the size of the Lok Sabha from 543 seats to 850 seats, and empower the government to conduct a new delimitation exercise...