Tag: Science

A new study on the Indian street dog states that “food subsidies” — availability of abundant, predictable food through garbage and intentional feeding — have an impact on their population in the country’s urban ecosystems. The study, titled ‘The Indian street dog crisis and multi-species coexistence in tropical urban futures’, conducted by Nishant Kumar, a...

Patient data, including medical records and patient experiences, are essential for scientists to develop new treatments, especially for rare diseases. The data help identify diagnostic biomarkers, predict disease progression, and help investigators design better clinical trials. This is important because clinical trials are required to show that a new treatment is safe and effective before...

When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears. When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves that ripple through the soil and rock beneath. The resulting vibrations...

— S. Prakash, Tiruchi The processes that produce earthquakes happen deep underground. These processes include stress building up in rocks and faults and the complex ways in which they transmit or release it. Faults may also rupture suddenly after centuries of accumulating stress, small ruptures may trigger larger ones, and some formations may release stress...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (August 23, 2026) called upon the country’s private space sector to build an ecosystem that can attract global talent, companies and investment, saying the country should create an “aura” that makes it a destination for people seeking to build careers in the sector. Mr. Modi was interacting with the...

Narwhal tusk is unique thanks to its double twist The narwhal tusk is nature’s sole straight tusk, and scientists know how it gets its left-handed twist. X-ray images of the tusk’s building blocks, the microscopic collagen fibrils, revealed two layers: the outer layer twists to the left and the inner layer, to the right. The...

On August 23, India marked its third National Space Day, three years since the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s lunar lander ‘Vikram’ touched down in the moon’s south pole region. Between then and Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace launching India’s first privately built rocket to orbit, India has actually come a long way — even as it is also just...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stressed creating an aura around the private sector in space research so that people worldwide feel that if they want to make a career, they should go to India. In an interaction with CEOs and founders of 20 space startups on Friday (August 21, 2026), Mr. Modi also highlighted India’s...

The world is scheduled to witness a lunar eclipse soon with almost 96% coverage of the moon’s surface, which will give the celestial body a deep red hue.  Our coverage of the August 12 solar eclipse The lunar eclipse will occur on August 28, 2026 and will be visible across North and South America, with...

The atmospheric phase of all space missions is challenging for both ascending rockets and descending space capsules. As the rocket lifts off from the earth and heads towards its orbit, it accelerates slowly through the atmosphere to keep the mechanical loads on the vehicle to a minimum. When a space capsule, like the Gaganyaan crew...