In May 2024, OpenAI released HealthBench, a new benchmarking system to test the clinical capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. On the surface, this may sound like yet another technical update. But for the medical world, it marked an important moment—a quiet acknowledgement that our current ways of evaluating medical AI are … Read more
A Falcon 9 rocket stands at the pad before its upcoming launch of the Axiom-4 crewed mission to the International Space Station at Launch Complex 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Florida. | Photo Credit: Reuters The much-delayed Axiom-4 commercial mission to the International Space Station, carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, is now targeting … Read more
Soft materials’ behaviour is on the border between solids and liquids. | Photo Credit: Shali/Unsplash Soft matter is the branch of science that studies materials that can be shaped, stretched, squished or flowed by applying small forces. Everyday examples include curd, toothpaste, shampoo, soap bubbles, and living cells. Unlike hard crystals like quartz or steel, … Read more
The Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has partnered with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), a not-for-profit research and development organisation, to accelerate the clinical development of a monoclonal antibody (mab) treatment for dengue that will be affordable and accessible in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mab are lab-produced antibodies, meant to mimic the … Read more
In this March 9, 2020, file photo, IAEA director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi from Argentina addresses the media after a meeting of the Board of Governors in Vienna, Austria. | Photo Credit: Ronald Zak/AP On June 12, 19 the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted in favour of declaring “that Iran … Read more
A Falcon 9 rocket stands at the pad before its upcoming launch of the Axiom-4 crewed mission to the International Space Station at Launch Complex 39-A in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., June 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: STEVE NESIUS Bengaluru The launch of Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has … Read more
This photo released on November 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran shows centrifuges in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. | Photo Credit: AP On June 13, Israel said it commenced a campaign to strike “dozens” of nuclear and military targets in Iran even as the U.S. and Tehran were … Read more
The Union Ministry of Power has said it is mulling restricting the temperature range of new air conditioners (ACs) in the country to between 20 degrees and 28 degrees Celsius. In a press conference on Tuesday, Power Minister Manohar Lal Khattar told presspersons the restriction would apply to ACs in households, hotels, and cars. The … Read more
At 1.38 pm on June 12, Air India flight AI171 bound for London from Ahmedabad crashed five minutes after taking off just outside the Ahmedabad airport. The flight had 230 passengers and 12 crew. Videos of the incident showed a large orange fireball erupting moments after the crash at the site in Meghaninagar. The exact cause … Read more
Image used for representation (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!) Scientists use a powerful technique called cryo-electron microscopy to see the 3D shapes of biological molecules, but the technique normally needs the molecules to be extremely … Read more