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Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP A San Francisco-based company named Marathon Fusion announced on October 21 that it had ‘converted’ mercury into gold in an experiment in September and that it had achieved a production rate tenfold greater than a record reported by CERN in 2025. The company has also...

The French physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who helped develop techniques to cool atoms to barely above absolute zero using laser light, passed away on October 22, aged 93. His work revolutionised physics by giving scientists a way to manipulate atoms and probe their quantum properties, work for which he won a piece of the physics Nobel...

Dr. Ashoke Sen. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has been awarded the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, becoming the first Indian laureate to receive the honour, awarded by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Medal recognises significant contributions to theoretical physics. Dr....

Dr. Ashoke Sen. File | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has been awarded the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, becoming the first Indian laureate to receive the honour, awarded by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Also read | More higher education institutions needed...

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, 1889. | Photo Credit: Public domain A July dawn that may have inspired ‘Starry Night’ Art historians have debated whether Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ painting depicts an actual sky. The painting has been dated to mid-June 1889 but the sky then does not match the real...

The recent conversation over the merchant discount rate on select UPI transactions raised the question of who pays for the digital convenience that millions of people enjoy. Hospitals may soon face a similar problem for strengthening their privacy even if no separate “privacy charge” appears on a patient’s bill. Protecting digital patient information will require...

The newly made allotrope closely resembled two jungle gyms, a.k.a. climbing frames, smushed together. | Photo Credit: Public domain The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun...

In 2018, anatomists at the Toho University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, performed a sleep deprivation experiment on lab mice. Mice usually sleep for 12 hours a day. In this experiment, researchers induced sleep deprivation using the ‘gentle handling method’ during sleep hours so that the mice could sleep only for six hours daily....

U.S. space tycoon Elon Musk recently throttled the military-grade Starshield network provided by his company SpaceX to Ukraine in retaliation for Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Musk’s actions are not without precedent — with a similar move in 2022 (although SpaceX disputed media reports) — but his most...

U.S. space tycoon Elon Musk recently throttled the military-grade Starshield network provided by his company SpaceX to Ukraine in retaliation for Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Musk’s actions are not without precedent — with a similar move in 2022 (although SpaceX disputed media reports) — but his most...