he Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has selected three Indian startups, including two from Bengaluru, as the first set of Indian Non-Governmental Entities (NGEs) for funding under its Technology Adoption Fund (TAF) Scheme. Bengaluru-based Astrobase Space Technologies and SatSure Analytics India, and Hyderabad-based TM2SPACE Technologies are the start-ups selected under the scheme...
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June 11, 2026June 11, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Nino, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced on Thursday (June 11, 2026). Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across...
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June 11, 2026June 11, 2026Science & Tech
IIT Bhubaneswar develops hand-held device to detect arsenic
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has innovated a device to detect arsenic that would help improve water quality monitoring and public health. Researchers from the Sensors and Spectroscopy Research Group, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences (SECS), IIT Bhubaneswar, led by Sayan Dey have made significant advances in arsenic detection technologies, said the institute in...
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June 11, 2026June 11, 2026Science & Tech
How ants cope with disease outbreaks
Ants are associated with a range of very positive qualities — including a self-motivated work ethic, preparedness and long-term thinking, and a preference for collective effort. Many ant species are also social, and living in social groups offers many advantages. However, there are downsides too. Among humans, the occurrence of seasonal outbreaks of infections such...
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June 11, 2026June 11, 2026Science & Tech
Do people have a tendency to walk in particular directions?
A: The answer to this strange question is a stranger ‘yes’. When people walk freely in an open space, they often begin to move in a counter-clockwise circle. While scientists believed people were simply following those in front of them or reacting to boundaries, a new study in Nature Communications has found a biological bias...
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June 10, 2026June 10, 2026Science & Tech
India’s reservoirs can host 102 GW of floating solar, says first national assessment
India’s reservoirs can host about 102 gigawatt (GW) of floating solar capacity, according to the first comprehensive national assessment of the technology’s potential by the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), an autonomous institute of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The report titled ‘Solar PV Potential of India (Floating Solar)’ frames panels...
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June 10, 2026June 10, 2026Science & Tech
NASA announces Artemis III crew; taps U.S. astronauts, Italian for mission with SpaceX, Blue Origin mooncraft
NASA named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth’s orbit next year that will test moon landers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the first time in space. NASA Administrator...
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June 10, 2026June 10, 2026Science & Tech
No ‘obesity gene’: why your genetic makeup is not a fixed destiny
In a 1983 paper, Harvard University geneticists James Gusella and Nancy Wexler reported that Huntington’s disease, a fatal inherited disease where brain cells progressively decay, was caused by a gene mutation on chromosome 4. This was the first time a single gene had been implicated in a disease. Since then, scientists have discovered about 5,000...
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June 10, 2026June 10, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
In Mexico City, axolotls are everywhere before the World Cup, except in the wild
One of the first things visitors arriving in Mexico City for the FIFA football World Cup are likely to see is the wide grin of an axolotl — with the salamander unique to this part of the world splashed in bright purple on murals and subway cars or depicted in sculptures dribbling a soccer ball....
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June 9, 2026June 9, 2026Science & Tech
How Babbage automated calculations with simple machines
Modern computing is often effortless. You pick up a calculator or open the calculator app on your phone, and you’re on your way in seconds. But getting here took humans several centuries from when they first tried to speed up computing. One particularly important passage in this history involved the English mathematician Charles Babbage, who...
