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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: scientists

Americans are finally worried about climate change

A shift in political forces and adjustments in the way scientists learned to make their case changed the way Americans look at climate change.

781 scientists, academics urge Modi govt to end Kashmir’s communication lockdown

Scientists from IISC, IITs, TIFR issue 2 statements — one expressing concern about situation at academic institutions, the other on discomfort faced by residents.

ISRO has Modi support. If all projects succeed, it only shows bar isn’t high: IIT-D director

Media should divert its attention from ISRO. It will do ISRO and the nation a lot of good.

Why no experiment can explain the supernatural, making it an intellectual dead end

Betting on natural explanations for natural phenomena has paid off time and time again, while betting on supernatural explanations has not.

Through the mirror world, scientists want to detect parallel universes & exotic matter

Scientists are setting up relatively cheap experiments that just might give concrete evidence for a strange notion known as the mirror world.

This Indian scientist is working on motor proteins to help the world understand obesity

TIFR Mumbai scientist Roop Mallik’s research is centred on motor proteins, and helps understand how fat deposits & bacterium work inside cells.

New Modi govt plans to form groups of consultants for science & tech research

K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, hopes to have 100 researchers & scientists from India & abroad as consultants to the govt.

Do not give up, says Gagandeep Kang, India’s first woman scientist to join Royal Society

There are also 5 Indian-origin scientists on list of Fellows & Foreign Members of The royal Society, London, the oldest scientific academy in the world.

Scientists detect the first-ever molecule of the universe

HeH+ was the first molecular bond to ever exist in the universe, taking shape around 300,000 years after the Big Bang.

American scientists were able to ‘revive’ brains of dead pigs

Though cellular activity was restored in the brains, scientists are ‘still not close to actually awakening the dead brains’.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.