To rebuild public trust, scholars at large have recommended research groups and journals adopt open-data policies and preregister studies. | Photo Credit: Dan Dimmock/Unsplash As if political broadsides weren’t enough to undermine public confidence in science, a deep-seated issue became apparent from within science itself in the 2010s: the replication crisis. Researchers began to realise … Read more
Vegetable oils of the kinds used in our daily cuisine contain organic fatty acids like linolenic and oleic acids. | Photo Credit: Joyce Romero/Unsplash In families across the world, silver is used as a precious metal, next to gold. Happy occasions in most families are celebrated with gold and silver garlands and rings. Silver is, … Read more
Lasers are used to position a patient model wearing a face mask in a CT scanner to obtain images of a tumour before radiation therapy. Representative image. | Photo Credit: USNCI A team of experts in the U.S. has successfully used a technique called step-and-shoot spot-scanning proton arc therapy (SPArc) to treat a patient’s adenoid … Read more
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