Constant mechanical force may be why heart cancer is so rare
Illustration of a human heart on a blue background | Photo Credit: Krithika R 2517@Coimbatore The human heart beats more than 1 lakh times a day, pushing blood through the…
Illustration of a human heart on a blue background | Photo Credit: Krithika R 2517@Coimbatore The human heart beats more than 1 lakh times a day, pushing blood through the…
In March 2025, Dehradun’s Parade Ground transformed into a funereal space. Scores of people dressed in white, their mouths bound in black cloth, paid silent ‘homage’ to the hundreds of…
Close up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito sucking human blood. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists are now making progress in deciphering the complex chemical cocktail that makes particular people…
Drugs that enhance the body’s immune response against cancer may also be altering one of its most tightly guarded boundaries: the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A recent study published by Yuval…
The underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, off Tonga, erupted powerfully in 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Volcanoes change the earth’s atmosphere by releasing gases and particles in large quantities. When…
At the new system’s core are two forecasting models whose predictions are “blended,” to sharpen accuracy. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Ahead of the monsoon this year, the India…
India is home to more than 1.4 billion people, thousands of communities, hundreds of languages, and five major language families. Many communities have historically practised endogamy and in some regions,…
Cyberabad Municipal Corporation Commissioner G. Srijana said that sanitation workers are often forced to clear waste that should ideally have been handled by those generating the garbage. The image is…
This colourised electron microscope image provided by the U.S. NIH shows a human T cell (blue) under attack by HIV (yellow). | Photo Credit: AP Scientists are tweaking a powerful…
Scientists are attempting to restore vision using ultrasound when the optic nerve is impaired. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Youngeon Lee/Unsplash A normal human hears sound in the frequency range…