Science Snapshots: May 31, 2026
A long-term study in East Africa has reported that dung beetles depend heavily on elephant dung | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Elephants’ decline portends dung beetle co-extinction Elephants are keystone…
A long-term study in East Africa has reported that dung beetles depend heavily on elephant dung | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Elephants’ decline portends dung beetle co-extinction Elephants are keystone…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Artificial Intelligence is the flavour of the times. It is not the preserve of technology geeks anymore, and it…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Guwahati The red-orange pigment from carrots can make fake ghee dodge a popular quality test to pass off as…
He’s been there, done that, and is raring to get back into space, humankind’s final frontier. Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first man on the International Space Station (ISS), says he is…
In this image provided by NASA, the Artemis II crew captured this view as the Earth sets behind the Moon during a lunar flyby, Monday, April 6, 2026. (NASA via…
At 4:40 a.m. on May 4, 2026, a 40-year-old man came to Khanna Sub-divisional Hospital’s emergency department with sweating and chest pain. Within minutes, the staff nurse and Emergency Medical…
Did you have breakfast today? It’s one thing when you are enjoying your summer holidays, when you can have delayed breakfasts, but it is quite another for most school goers…
A Touch of Genius, a new anthology of the writings of “Indian Nobel laureates”, edited by historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee, is both nationalist and critical of nationalism — possibly by accident…
A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, NASA said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a blast equivalent to 300 tonnes…
The story so far: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) recently said that the exercise to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database under the Centre-backed Genome India Project…