When regular activity is removed, the human body does not simply stop or pause progress. It actively reconfigures, recalibrates, and reorganises. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images The human body is highly adaptable. It continuously reconfigures and reorganises itself in direct response to the demands placed upon it. Its musculature … Read more
In this image from video provided by NASA, the Artemis II Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, on April 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA/AP From false claims that a historic lunar fly-by was staged in a movie studio to unfounded narratives that footage of the crew was AI-generated, the Artemis II mission … Read more
Alexis Carrel’s work showed how damaged vessels could be repaired and even replaced, laying the foundation for modern organ transplantation | Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Soumyadip Sinha The 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Alexis Carrel “in recognition of his work on vascular suturing and the transplantation of blood vessels and … Read more
A colorised scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, shown in gold, interacting with a human neutrophil, in red. | Photo Credit: NIAID Men experience more skin infections than women — doctors have known this for a while. They have proposed both behavioural and physiological reasons for this difference but the exact mechanism … Read more
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto GUWAHATI A report on bats in India has recommended a systematic quantification of guano, or accumulated bat poop, and its nutritional value compared to existing bio-fertilisers. Farmers in India do not fancy guano as an alternative to chemical fertilisers as much as their counterparts … Read more
On April 9, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the emperor penguin to be an endangered species. | Photo Credit: KSL A sentinel species is a species whose members’ health signals the condition of the ecosystem in which they live. Scientists monitor them because they are among the first to respond to stressors … Read more
A view of night lights in India in 2016. | Photo Credit: NASA Night time lights are not just getting brighter New data challenge the traditional view that nightlights are becoming brighter everywhere. Based on satellite data from 2014 to 2022 of artificial nightlight, researchers found a nightscape both brightening and dimming. While global brightening, … Read more
A massive turbine-generator of the 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), in Kalpakkam. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu A fast breeder reactor (FBR) gets its name from two features. First, it ‘breeds’ more nuclear fuel than it consumes. Second, it uses fast neutrons — ones that haven’t been slowed — to initiate nuclear fission. … Read more
Representative picture. | Photo Credit: Creative Commons Bill Murray has once said, “If Google does not know the answer, it is not a question.” Even though an absolutely untrue quote, it definitely makes one wonder what all the internet knows. An encyclopedia larger than any book at your fingertips, that’s what the internet is. However, … Read more
