A new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1 or "Nimbus," is spreading globally, causing painful sore throats, dubbed "razor blade throat." Primarily affecting the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and western Pacific regions, it's been detect ...more

EU countries Tuesday backed plans to set mandatory targets for recycled plastic content in new vehicles in a bid to reduce waste and promote the so-called "circular economy". "It cuts waste, curbs our reliance on critical raw materials ...more

Techies during weekdays, naturalists over the weekend — their film on the macaques turns the spotlight on conservation

From bird-watching to conservation, a group school students in the city turn the spotlight on a dying ecosystem

Reusable launch vehicles have been the driver of emerging commercial space missions over the past decade, led by Falcon 9, owned and operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX

A chilling new discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests our universe may be living inside a colossal black hole.

International Space Station astronauts celebrated with 'space sushi'. Jonny Kim shared the crew's creative meal on social media. They used rice, spam, fish, gochujang, and wasabi. Limited supplies didn't stop them. Astronauts taped surf ...more

The Axiom-4 mission, which marks the return to space for India, Hungary, and Poland, was earlier scheduled for lift-off from Florida on June 19 onboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket

NASA and ISRO are launching the NISAR satellite on June 18, 2025, from India. This $1.5 billion mission will use advanced radar to monitor Earth's surface with unprecedented precision, day or night. NISAR will provide critical data on f ...more

After the event, defence minister Rajnath Singh said India had entered “a new quantum era of secure communication” that will be “a game changer in future warfare”

After the event, defence minister Rajnath Singh said India had entered “a new quantum era of secure communication” that will be “a game changer in future warfare”

A landmark study has shown that rice plants that have learn to tolerate cold temperatures by changing epigenetic marks on a gene could also pass the ability down five generations

A team from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), collected these fossil leaves. They meticulously analyzed their physical characteristics and identified them through comparisons with existing plant collections and cluster analysis, said the ministry.

In a groundbreaking achievement, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's corona using an artificial solar eclipse created by two satellites flying in precise formation. This innovative ...more

SpaceX successfully launched 26 Starlink satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday. The Falcon 9 rocket, making its third flight, deployed the satellites into low Earth orbit. The rocket's first stage landed on ...more

A groundbreaking study uncovers the disturbing extent of pain fish endure during slaughter, lasting up to 24 minutes in some cases.

Researchers in Japan have developed a novel plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, potentially mitigating microplastic pollution. Created from sodium hexametaphosphate and guanidinium ions, this durable, non-flammable plastic ...more

On June 12, NASA said the NASA-ISRO SAR mission had arrived at ISRO’s spaceport in Sriharikota

Mineral deposits, speleothems, and archaeological sites reveal a lush history for the Arabian Peninsula, challenging theories of human migration

Eshan Chattopadhyay, an Indian-origin computer scientist at Cornell University, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Godel Prize for his groundbreaking solution to a decades-old problem in randomness extraction. His work, which builds ...more