Tag: Science

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...

— Dev The human body has a built-in timekeeping system called the circadian rhythm. It is governed by a group of cells in the brain, centred on the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which uses signals such as daylight to keep the body’s roughly 24-hour cycle aligned with the outside world. When you wake up at the same...

A slew of announcements over the last few months from the Indian government have placed steel sector decarbonisation high on the agenda of the country’s steelmakers, including a ₹5,000-crore scheme announced last year to accelerate steel sector decarbonisation in the country that is set to launch in the coming months. India’s steelmaking emissions are among...

Ten-sided wave undulates around Saturn’s south pole Saturn’s north pole is famous for its long-lasting hexagonal wave; now, scientists have for the first time found a decagonal wave around its south pole. Using images from space and ground telescopes in 2023-2025, they found the wave slowly moving eastward. The decagon’s vertices move back and forth...

Researchers have found that certain peptides — short chains of amino acids that make up proteins — are not only stable in 98% concentrated sulphuric acid but also fold into the complex 3D shapes required to perform the functions central to life. Thus, the findings, published Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on September...