Unusual rains of 2024 could be earth’s new normal The year 2024 experienced a record-breaking number of heavy and extreme rainfall events worldwide, a new study has confirmed. But unlike previous strong El Niño years, 2024 also featured unusual simultaneous warming across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans that, together with a warmer atmosphere, brought extreme...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Science & Tech
TRISHNA satellite is in advanced stage of realisation, says ISRO official
The Indo-French satellite TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) will be launched in the next 12-16 months, said Jasvinder Singh Khoral, Director (Projects), U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), on Sunday (October 11, 2026). He said this was the third satellite that India and France are developing after Megha-Tropiques and SARAL (Satellite...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Education, Science & Tech
‘Overemphasis on MCQs’: Ramanujan Prize winner, Mahesh Kakde, on maths education in India
The 2026 Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Mahesh Kakde, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), for his contribution to algebraic number theory. It honours Prof. Kakde’s fundamental work on non-commutative Iwasawa theory and his outstanding research on the Gross-Stark and Brumer-Stark conjectures, with implications for Hilbert’s 12th problem — one of...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
Global warming is turning frogs’ sex reversal into an extinction risk
Some fish can switch sex more than once over a lifetime. In lizards, genetically male hatchlings can be born looking and functioning as females. In some frogs, genetically female individuals can develop into fertile males. This phenomenon is called sex reversal. It is well documented in the animal kingdom, from invertebrates to amphibians to birds,...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Science & Tech
Berlin to BITS Pilani: How Nobel-winning Optogenetics connects to parasite research in Hyderabad
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”, has brought renewed attention to using light to investigate fundamental biological processes. These include memory formation, feelings, and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders, as well as processes...
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October 11, 2026October 11, 2026Science & Tech
What was the Chemistry Nobel Prize given for? | Explained
STORY SO FAR: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for showing that it is possible to amplify a molecule’s “handedness,” and direct it in a way that it can be used to produce pharmaceutical products of a very high purity. Their work also offers clues to...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
Chance and happenstance: On the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Only in imagination, the mathematical imagination, does perfect equality exist. A fair coin has an equal probability of heads and tails, so across many tosses, the expectation is for the proportions to approach 50:50. Laborious demonstrations have shown that this is rarely the case; bias is preloaded into life. Only about 10% of humans are...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
Food waste, a major contributor to climate change
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) It produces five times the greenhouse gas emissions than does the aviation sector and it releases methane that accounts for no less than 10 per cent of all global greenhouse gases. The...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Science & Tech
ISRO employees seek meeting with Chairperson to discuss queries on privatisation
The Joint Action Council (JAC), representing nine Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees’ associations, have sought a meeting with the Chairperson of the space agency, Dr. V. Narayanan, to discuss key issues, like emerging threats of privatisation and transfer of technology, among others. In a letter dated October 7, the nine associations requested an early...
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October 8, 2026October 8, 2026Children, Science & Tech
The last human expedition to the moon… so far
Apollo 11 will forever be remembered as the mission which enabled human beings to set foot on the moon, our natural satellite, for the first time. While the first will always remain the first, the same cannot be said for what is the last such mission, as future missions might take that place. But for...
