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Monday, July 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

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.