Tag: Science

Some 2,000 km away from their natural habitat in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, five listless baby orangutans were found, bafflingly, in a forest in the middle of Odisha on Tuesday. Videos that were shared widely, showed the critically endangered apes, each around a year old, with limited mobility, huddled together, chomping on bananas...

Human drug use began millennia earlier than believed Researchers examined the teeth of two ancient hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back as far as 25,000 years, and found unusual, deep grooves in the teeth caused by sucking on betel nuts. Chemical analyses confirmed the presence of arecoline, the main stimulant in betel nuts, suggesting these...

The world’s most common childhood disability, cerebral palsy, has long been associated with birth complications like premature birth, infection, lack of oxygen, and perinatal stroke. But population studies suggest those factors account for only a fraction of cases. To fill this diagnostic void, modern medicine has routinely turned to gene sequencing to hunt for a...

For most of history, menstrual blood has been dismissed as biological waste. But emerging research is now recasting this material as a goldmine for non-invasive diagnostics and regenerative medicine. Its potential applications are surprisingly broad, ranging from innovative cervical cancer screenings to advanced cartilage repair. Much like saliva or blood plasma, menstrual fluid is rich...

In what is quickly becoming an explosive controversy in mathematics, a potential solution to one of the field’s greatest open questions has been overshadowed by allegations of espionage and unethical academic work. Over the previous 48 hours (as on September 9 morning IST), the mathematical community has been rocked by claims that OpenAI leveraged its...

The European Space Agency (ESA) will be holding discussions with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on co-operation in human space flight and lunar exploration, during the International Space Summit in Paris, which gets underway on September 9. A high-level delegation from India is in Paris to take part in the International Space Summit. Josef Aschbacher, ESA...

Cosmologists are literally over the moon at the prospect of listening to the universe telling its story like never before. At the heart of this excitement is a small satellite named CosmoCube, which scientists from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) plan to send to the far side of the moon, which permanently faces away from...

Around 2,000 participants from 120 countries, including a high-level delegation from India, are expected to take part in the International Space Summit, which will take place in Paris, France on September 9 and 10. The summit will focus on four pillars — defence and security, space economy, space regulation, and space and scientific research. Speaking...

The French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) said that it is not perturbed with the back-to-back failures of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO)’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and has complete trust in its Indian partner. The PSLV is scheduled to launch the Indo-French TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for...