Even as the government mandates real name caller ID, Truecaller AB, which built its whole business on caller identification and spam detection, has expressed confidence that it would be able to survive and grow in India, its biggest market, CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told The Hindu in an interview from Bengaluru. The firm has almost 328...
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April 13, 2026April 13, 2026Science & Tech
Why climate education should be key curriculum
Across India, floods drown schools, heatwaves close universities, and smog turns morning assemblies into health hazards. Yet, for most students, climate change remains an annual essay topic, not a lived curriculum. Environmental education in its current form often ends where the examination does. What we lack is not awareness but the kind of awakening that...
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April 13, 2026April 13, 2026Science & Tech
UK regulators rush to assess risks of latest Anthropic AI model: Report
British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government’s cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential...
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April 13, 2026April 13, 2026Science & Tech
IMF chief warns global monetary system not ready for AI cyber threats
The global monetary system is not prepared to address artificial intelligence’s rapidly escalating risks, the IMF managing director warned Sunday, as a new Anthropic model raises urgent cybersecurity concerns. Kristalina Georgieva’s comments came a day before the International Monetary Fund and World Bank kick off their annual spring meetings in Washington, and after US regulators...
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April 13, 2026April 13, 2026Science & Tech
OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed
OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios and is taking steps to protect the process that certifies its macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps. The ChatGPT maker said it found no evidence that its user data was accessed, that its systems or intellectual property was...
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April 12, 2026April 12, 2026Science & Tech
Flavour puzzle: physics doesn’t know why matter comes in ‘flavours’
At the smallest scales, nature often repeats itself. It makes families of subatomic particles that look identical in almost every way. Yet when scientists measured them, they found these ‘copies’ didn’t line up neatly. Some are far heavier than others for no clear reason. Some change into one another at oddly chosen rates. While physicists...
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April 12, 2026April 12, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Alexis Carrel’s Nobel-winning work in vascular repair and transplantation
The 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alexis Carrel “in recognition of his work on vascular suturing and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs.” His work addressed a fundamental problem in early surgery, how to restore blood flow after injury or operation and helped make complex procedures like organ transplantation...
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April 12, 2026April 12, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Call to quantify bat poop nutrition for crops
GUWAHATI A report on bats in India has recommended a systematic quantification of guano, or accumulated bat poop, and its nutritional value compared to existing bio-fertilisers. Farmers in India do not fancy guano as an alternative to chemical fertilisers as much as their counterparts in Cuba, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, and Thailand. Bat guano is sold...
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April 12, 2026April 12, 2026Science & Tech
What are sentinel species?
A sentinel species is a species whose members’ health signals the condition of the ecosystem in which they live. Scientists monitor them because they are among the first to respond to stressors in their environment, such as pollution and disease, and their response also tends to be more apparent than most other species. In other...
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April 12, 2026April 12, 2026Science & Tech
Study unravels why men experience more skin infections than women
Men experience more skin infections than women — doctors have known this for a while. They have proposed both behavioural and physiological reasons for this difference but the exact mechanism has been unclear. Recently, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Centre in Texas in the U.S. reported that the male sex hormones, androgens, which include testosterone,...
