Up, up, and away! The question of whether Mars supports life, or if it has in any point of its history, has been on the minds of people – both scientists and common folk – for a very long time. Flyby explorations of the red planet in the 1960s ended hopes of an inhabited world. … Read more
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto In a first, starting this year, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) will award negative scores to higher educational institutions for papers that have been retracted from journals in the last three calendar years and their corresponding citations. “This year, we will award some … Read more
The complex pattern of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of black holes circling each other before merging. | Photo Credit: Henze/NASA Scientists working with a network of observatories located around the world recently reported that they had detected a powerful and unusual burst of gravitational waves, which they called GW231123. The signal was traced … Read more
An artist’s impression of the emissions from the protostar. The circular polarisation is shown in the schematic image as a twisted light beam. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement An international team led by astronomers from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) here has discovered radio emission with a special property known as … Read more
The story so far: On July 16, an international collaboration of scientists based in Europe reported that they had, for the first time, observed that the matter and antimatter versions of a type of subatomic particle called a baryon decay at different rates. The result revealed a new difference in their behavior that may help … Read more
In this image posted by @gagan.shux via Instagram on July 16, 2025, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla meets his wife Kamna, a day after his successful return to the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), at Houston, Texas. | Photo Credit: PTI Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla who returned to earth on July 15 after … Read more
A study of 141 cities in India from 2003 to 2020 using satellite-retrieved aerosol data reveals a surprise — aerosol levels were significantly high in 57% of cities compared with the surrounding areas outside the city in south and southeast India, while the converse was true in the case of 43% of cities in northwest … Read more
A tribal adivasi woman preparing her hut ahead of monsoon season in Gujarat. File | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gujarat has become the first Indian State to launch a genome sequencing initiative focused exclusively on tribal communities. At a high-level consultation chaired by State Tribal Development Minister Kuber Dindor here, the Tribal Genome Sequencing Project … Read more
Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, researchers reported on Wednesday (July 16, 2025). Most DNA is found in the nucleus of our cells, and it’s that genetic material — some … Read more
The tremors that were felt in Delhi on July 10, 2025, at 9.04 a.m. with a magnitude of 4.4 on the Richter Scale — as reported by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) — are a wake-up call for India’s seismic vulnerability. The epicentre, which was located approximately 20 kilometres southwest of the city at … Read more