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Pancreatic cancers are aggressive and deadly, with high rates of metastasis and poor prognosis. The tumour environment is also hypoxic: the cells rapidly divide and thrive in very low oxygen conditions. Now, IIT-Bombay researchers have shown that the hypoxia ends up enhancing the cells’ metastatic behavior. By affecting the cells’ plasma membrane lipids, hypoxic conditions...

Passenger Internet on aeroplanes used to be rare in the 2010s but has become almost commonplace today. On most flights, the basic idea is that the whole aeroplane is treated like a flying Wi-Fi router that connects to the rest of the Internet through a long backhaul link. This means your phone or laptop never...

In a major taxonomic revision of bush frogs, the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has recorded 13 new-to-science species of amphibians from the northeastern part of the country. These new species have been described in a study published in the latest issue of Vertebrate Zoology, an international journal. The authors of the study are Bitupan...

When, in 1960, the British primatologist Jane Goodall first observed chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania using twigs to fish termites out of anthills, she was making scientific history. Researchers had until then believed only humans could use tools. Goodall’s discovery erased that line as well as raised important questions about what it means...

Researchers at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have built a new device that reveals how thick everyday fluids like gels, shampoos, and industrial solutions behave deep inside, a breakthrough that can help improve extraction and production processes across industries.  By showing how these fluids respond to even a single moving object, the method gives companies a...

A: A random forest is a machine-learning method that makes predictions by combining the decisions of many simpler models called decision trees. A decision tree works like a tree from bottom-up. At each node, it asks a question about the data, e.g. “is a person’s age greater than 30?”. Then, depending on the answer, it...

Forty-two glacial lakes in Nepal have been identified as being at critical risk of bursting, according to experts. A potential glacial lake outburst flood could result in massive loss of life and severe damage to infrastructure, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) expert Sharad Prasad Joshi warned on Friday (November 21, 2025) during a...

A large study in the UK has reported that children and adolescents are at substantially more risk of developing heart inflammation, blood clots, and other vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination. The study, published recently in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, drew on the health records of nearly 14 million individuals...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully demonstrated the boot-strap mode start test on the CE20 Cryogenic engine which powers the upper stage of the Launch Vehicle Mark -3 (LVM3) rocket. The test on the CE20 cryogenic engine, which was successfully conducted under vacuum conditions in the High-Altitude Test (HAT) facility at ISRO Propulsion...

(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!) Biologists and designers have long been fascinated by repeating patterns in nature, from spirals in shells to honeycombs in bees’ nests. However, they have paid the most attention to patterns...