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Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’, its Sanskrit paper makes it to international journal

Swiss-based MDPI publishes video abstracts of Patanjali’s research paper in Sanskrit, on a medicinal herb, in push for ‘diversity and sustainability’.

Now, Bangladesh set to steal march over India with GM rice that fights malnutrition

A GM rice variety called golden rice has been deemed safe in fresh tests conducted by researchers from the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute.

The last place you think you will find a special math equation – rat whiskers

Nature is full of mathematical patterns. Rats feel through their whiskers, so we wanted to learn how their whiskers function and grow.

Two satellites missed a close smash in space — but how did we reach this disaster

Collisions in space can be disastrous and can send high-speed debris in all directions. This endangers other satellites, future launches, and especially crewed space missions.

Cartosat-3 images are so clear that you can tell a truck from a car, read road markings

Social media users have begun processing Cartosat-3 images released by ISRO to test their quality. The results are stunning.

Scientists record first video of atoms forming and breaking chemical bonds

The video shows two rhenium atoms, which look like black dots, forming and breaking chemical bonds using transmission electron microscopy.

First highest-resolution images of Sun are here, reveal never-seen-before features

Sun’s images captured by Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope located in Hawaii show a desert-like surface divided into discrete gigantic cells, covered with plasma layer.

Einstein’s contempt for peer review wasn’t misplaced, it is something of a lottery

The process of peer review has become inconsistent and subjective to the degree that it is unnervingly close to what you'd expect from purely random selection.

Climate change doesn’t just cost us the environment, but a pretty penny too

It will cost between 2.5% - 7.5% of the global GDP to tackle the predicted 2 degrees Celsius rise in global warming, expected by 2050.

New research says humans have a natural life expectancy of 38 years

If research is right, the implications are huge — for starters, we would have to rethink our entire health care system.

On Camera

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?