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Your microwave, wall clock, car will all be able to eavesdrop on you soon

The products Amazon is rolling out are all based on its Alexa voice-assistant technology, installing them would lead to bugging of all your private spaces.

These plastic-eating fungi may be the answer to our garbage epidemic

Last year, a team of scientists from Pakistan and China stumbled upon a species of fungus that colonised the surface of plastic, causing it to chip away.

This alumnus of a Baroda govt school was part of a team that unlocked a space secret

Karan Jani was part of the team that discovered the universe's gravitational waves in 2015, a century after Albert Einstein predicted them.

Your urine may have clues that can help detect cancer before it strikes

Future urine tests are likely to maximise the chance of detecting ovarian cancer before the patient develops symptoms.

It’s World Alzheimer’s Day: What you need to know about the disease that damages the brain

Of the estimated 46.8 million dementia patients in the world, 60 to 80 per cent are believed to suffer from Alzheimer’s.

Even media giants fall to viral hoax that peppers of all colours come from same plant

After reading the ‘fact’, one Twitter user remarked that their ‘whole life had been a lie’.

These Indian scientists have formed a band of myth-busters. Social media beware

A group of scientists from Mumbai are tracking fallacies peddled as fact and then debunking them.

There’s a 50% rise in heart diseases in India. Blame salt, sugar and air pollution

Study finds the total number of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases in India increased from 15% in 1990 to 28% in 2016.

Why the physics community has lost interest in breakthrough discovery

There’s deep scepticism about an IISc duo’s claims of achieving superconductivity at room temperature owing to their silence on the study.

These giant machines are removing all the plastic choking India’s water bodies

The firms that deploy them work with municipalities, and the irrigation and water resource departments, and often provide end-to-end service.

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Mamata’s brush with protesting doctors serves a lesson. She’s now a failed Chief Minister

In the last 42 days of cease work, the junior doctors achieved unprecedented support from the people of Kolkata and beyond. And very little concessions from CM Mamata Banerjee.

Chemistry of curd to physics of paratha, GST rates on food are a multi-disciplinary tangle

Issue of GST on food items is in news again after hotel owner’s viral interaction with Finance Minister Sitharaman last week. But complexities highlighted go back further in time.

Indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant joins Navy’s Western Fleet, ready for deployment

With the integration of the deck-based fighter jets MiG-29K now complete, Vikrant now has an overall capability to carry 30 helicopters and fixed-wing fighters.

BJP’s Northeast policy has lit new fires & reopened old wounds. And it still won’t blink

Manipur represents BJP’s unique ideological approach to governing Northeast by playing identity politics jiu-jitsu. It hasn’t gone well yet, is getting worse, but the party insists on continuing.