In the rapidly evolving field of Data Science, technical skills such as programming, statistics, and machine learning are often emphasised as the foundation for success. However, while these are essential, they are not sufficient on their own. A successful career in Data Science also requires strong soft skills, business acumen, communication abilities, and ethical considerations....
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November 29, 2025November 29, 2025Children, Science & Tech
Revolutionising home-food preservation, one jar at a time
What with near-instant delivery of whatever food item that we seek — be it ready-to-eat or even to prepare — and supermarkets around every corner in an urban expanse, it might not be long before the need to preserve food at home becomes a forgotten art. And yet, home-food preservation was a tricky affair even...
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November 29, 2025November 29, 2025Science & Tech
Scientists warn Centre against accepting ‘compromise formula’ at plant treaty meet in Peru
The Scientists for Genetic Diversity, a group of scientists, has written to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, and the Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research M. L. Jat expressing its concern over the “compromise proposal” presented at the 11th session of the governing body (GB11) of...
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November 29, 2025November 29, 2025Science & Tech
What is the Baikonur cosmodrome?
The Baikonur cosmodrome is a spaceport in Kazakhstan that Russia leases and operates as the site of its space launches. It was built in the 1950s first as a missile test range before becoming the centre of the Soviet space programme. The R-7 rocket launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and Vostok 1 in 1961, which...
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November 29, 2025November 29, 2025Science & Tech
The many roles of sugarcane in India and the world
A recent paper by Olivier Garsmeur and colleagues titled ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ in the journal Cell conducted genomic analyses of 390 sugarcane breeds from Australia, Brazil, China, France, French Polynesia, India, Japan, and the US. These plants were hybrids of a variety of...
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November 28, 2025November 28, 2025Science & Tech
NISAR earth observation satellite enters final science operations phase
The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, launched in July, has entered the science phase, the ISRO announced on Friday (November 28, 2025). The earth observation satellite provides all-weather, day-and-night data, which have a wide range of applications. It is the first satellite jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the...
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November 28, 2025November 28, 2025Science & Tech
Delay in getting syntactic foam from France hits India’s Samudrayaan mission
A crucial set of tests on the Samudrayaan, India’s first manned-submersible dive into the ocean, is likely only mid-next year following a delay in the procurement of syntactic foam cladding from France. The Samudrayaan consists of a sphere capable of plunging to a depth of 6,000 metres into the ocean. Only a handful of countries have...
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November 28, 2025November 28, 2025Science & Tech
Feminising hormone therapy can alter proteins in transwomen’s blood
The effects of feminising gender-affirmative hormone therapy (GAHT) are more than skin deep, new research in Nature Medicine has reported, with the changes going down to the very proteins circulating in a person’s blood. University of Melbourne endocrinologist Ada Cheung, who co-led the study, has called the findings “a world-first”. Sanjay Kalra, an endocrinologist and...
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November 27, 2025November 27, 2025Science & Tech
Hong Kong blaze: Why buildings have disastrous fires and how they can be prevented
On November 26, a fire started on scaffolding at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Tai Po in Hong Kong and spread rapidly across multiple high-rise blocks wrapped in bamboo and other flammable external materials. At least 44 people had died as of 7 am IST (November 27) while hundreds were missing. The local...
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November 27, 2025November 27, 2025Science & Tech
How groundbreaking new brain atlases capture development in motion
Imagine watching the brain not as a finished organ but as a city under construction, where every neuron is a worker changing jobs as the skyline rises. A series of papers in Nature published on November 5 has captured exactly that. Led by researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the USA, together...
