Category: Science & Tech

One day in 2025, Jane perched facing a computer screen. The screen’s top half displayed a black circle on a magenta background. The bottom half had a black arrow on white. After what appeared to be a moment of deliberation, Jane extended her neck and touched the circle. Small pellets of food appeared in the...

A lot of things can cause itchiness, sometimes serious diseases. Whatever the cause, doctors have long warned that scratching too much can damage the skin. Now researchers better understand why even a mildly annoying itch could put you on an itch-and-scratch cycle if you give in. How did they find out? In part by putting...

Technique tests TB drugs’ effectiveness in just 50 hours Scientists have developed a faster way to test for drug resistance in the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Traditional phenotypic tests have to wait for the bacteria to multiply over four to eight weeks. The new way, called Raman-DIP, uses single-cell imaging to track how cells process...

In a new study in Science Advances, an international team of researchers has reported finding organic matter on Mars. Using the NASA Perseverance rover, the team recorded a distribution of complex organic carbon within an ancient river valley on the red planet’s Jezero Crater. Using the rover’s SHERLOC instrument, the researchers detected a complex and...

Two years ago, Mundakkai and Churalmala in Kerala experienced powerful landslides that killed hundreds of people. Last year, a large village in Dharali, Uttarakhand, was washed away following heavy rains. In the monsoon season of 2025, the States in Northeast India were devastated by frequent floods. More than a hundred people lost their lives after...