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Monday, August 11, 2025
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Topic: researchers

Optimists think alike, but pessimism hits everyone differently, find Japanese, Australian researchers

Researchers did functional magnetic resonance imaging to probe into brain activity in 87 participants as they thought of different future events marked as positive, neutral or negative.

Delhi HC seeks response from govt. on law researchers plea over delayed salary

The petition filed by a group of law researchers who worked between 2018 & 2025 demands the implementation of a 2023 order that raised the monthly salary to Rs 80,000.

UGC halts CARE reference list of journals for ‘greater academic freedom’. What it means for academia

Introduced in 2018, UGC-CARE list aimed to recognise only reputable journals for faculty selections, promotions, and research funding.

Researchers come up with new way to increase crop yields

The National Institute of Plant Genome Research has found a way to enhance nitrogen uptake and efficiency in plants.

Scientist couple’s research paper-style wedding card analyses their ‘stable covalent bond’

Indian agriculture researchers Alapati Nymisha & Prem Kumar B's wedding invite gives a sneak peek into their love story, how they met, fell in love & decided to get married—all through science.

Scientists find way to boost supercapacitors’ energy storage. It could change how we charge devices

This could help develop devices that substantially reduce charging times for everything, from laptops to electric vehicles.

Indian researchers paid $17mn to publish in open access journals in 2020

Researchers from IIM Ahmedabad, IMU Kolkata & Berhampur University behind study also emphasised need for development of national open access repository for Indian researchers.

‘Beehive imprints’, not 550 mn-yr-old fossil: Bhimbetka find proven false, scientists accept mistake

Rare Dickinsonia fossil actually decaying beehive imprints, finds research team from University of Florida that went to the rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh for follow-up study.

38% Americans think US is ‘losing ground’ on scientific advancements since Covid, finds study

Conducted by Pew Research Centre, the survey also found that only 14% US citizens thought the country was excelling in scientific achievements.

NEP has lofty goals to promote research culture. UGC undermining its basic tool—publishing

It's a fallacious argument that research in India is done only in standalone institutions and universities need only focus on teaching. Universities without research are as good as a dead duck.

On Camera

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.