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Monday, August 11, 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

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

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.