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Have you ever dreamt of flying? A common, recurring theme in dreams, it symbolises freedom and liberation, and a sense of empowerment as one rises above challenges they are confronted with. For decades, nay centuries, or should we say millennia, flying was just that — an unfulfilled dream for humanity as a whole. It might...

A domain of inquiry, natural history is the interdisciplinary research and study of organisms. When we say organisms, it includes the entire gamut of living beings, be it plants, animals, fungi, and even microorganisms. Natural history focuses on the life cycles, behaviours and relationships of these organisms in their natural environment. Serving as a bridge...

More than 1.5 lakh alerts were issued for Indian satellites during 2025. According to the Indian Space Situational Awareness Report for 2025 (ISSAR 2025), which was recently released, the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) of US Space Command issued more than 1.5 lakh alerts for ISRO’s Earth orbiting satellites. “There were four collision avoidance manoeuvres...

Published – April 15, 2026 05:00 pm IST Read Comments Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit

The summer season is on and the fruit market is flush with the watermelon (‘turbuz’ in Hindi, ‘vathakkai’ in Tamil, ‘tormuj’ in Bengali, and Citrullus lanatus in botany), with its green-yellow striped skins and reddish interiors studded with dark seeds. The watermelon came to India from Africa, and is now ranked alongside apples, bananas, oranges,...

The crew module, where the astronauts reside, orbits the earth at a high velocity of about 7,800 m/s. When the module returns to the earth and re-enters the atmosphere, it faces the challenge of shedding its kinetic energy. Atmospheric drag itself acts as the primary brake and takes away the majority of its energy, through...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired nanodevice, a hafnium-oxide memristor, that could dramatically cut artificial intelligence’s (AI) energy bill by bringing memory and computation into the same component. The findings were published in Science Advances on March 20.

High blood sugar affects cognitive function via lactate Researchers have found excess sugar causes a modification to build up on a protein called Creb3, which then activates a gene that boosts the production of lactate in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory centre. Excessive lactate kills brain cells, leading to cognitive impairment. A large study confirmed...

— Aravind N., Hyderabad A: Simply speaking, the two kinds of fats affect the body’s LDL cholesterol differently. LDL is the kind that clogs arteries.

Every spring, lakhs of people suffering from allergies brace for sneezing fits and itchy eyes as trees release pollen into the air. Now, a team of researchers from France and the U.S. has built a tool that can predict exactly how pollen travels through a city once the wind picks it up. In the study,...