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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: scientists

2024 will be the hottest year on record, high temperatures to persist, say EU scientists

Scientists are also monitoring whether the La Nina weather pattern—which involves the cooling of ocean surface temperatures—could form in 2025.

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.

Harriet Brooks transformed nuclear physics. But Barnard College fired her for getting married

In 'Her Space, Her Time', award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose delves into the stories of remarkable women who transformed science.

Move over blue whale, Peru fossils indicate Perucetus colossus from 38-mn yrs ago was largest mammal

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

NASA reveals new spacesuit for human mission to Moon & traces of glacier found near Mars’s equator

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

How Indians’ genomes can end up abroad & why it’s raising ethical, ‘national security’ questions

As many as 15,000 human genome samples were collected from five states in India and sent to the US for the mega genomics project by Global Gene Corp and American pharma giant Regeneron.   

Meet India’s 25 ‘most productive’ scientists: From CERN atom smashers to whiz with 84 doctorates

52 Indian scientists are in the world's top 2% according to the Alper Dodger Scientific Index for 2023, released Monday. Here’s a look at the top 25 and their work.

Creepy breakthrough? US scientists reanimate dead spiders to use them as claw-like ‘grippers’

A team from Rice University is using dead arachnids to pick up objects and perform repetitive tasks by puffing air into their limbs. Findings published in journal Advanced Science.

Trust science, not scientists, is the lesson from doubt over Wuhan wet market theory: Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama said Wuhan lab-leak theory points to American complicity in the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.

Ultra-white paint can soon replace air-conditioning, according to scientists

Walls and roofs have been painted white for centuries to deflect heat. But scientists at Purdue University are taking it one step further. 

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.