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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey E. Hinton awarded for work on machine learning with artificial neural network

08/10/2024
The Nobel Prizes for 2024 in Physics has been awarded to duo for their inventions that helped in machine learning.

Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

08/10/2024
For Boeing, this embarrassing episode is the latest in a long series of problems.

Limestone, iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Australia 100,000 years ago

08/10/2024
Karst landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years.

Upper stage of historic PSLV-37 mission re-enters Earth’s atmosphere eight years after launch: ISRO

08/10/2024
Since September 2024, ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Space Operations Management (IS4OM) regularly monitored the orbital decay of the upper stage as part of its regular activities and predicted re-entry into the atmosphere in the first week of October 2024

The darker side of human rights for great apes

08/10/2024
Currently, “unnecessary” experimentation is banned on great apes in 29 countries including the UK, the EU and New Zealand.

Genome-editing is helping us understand hereditary cancers better

08/10/2024
Researchers are using CRISPR-based methods to explore an individual’s propensity to resist targeted therapies

Consumption of ultra-processed and fast foods leading cause of diabetes in India, reveals new study

07/10/2024
The study found that low-AGE diets exhibited improvement in the insulin-sensitivity and reduction in the inflammatory levels compared to high-AGE diets

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024: What is the research that won the prize? | Explained 

07/10/2024
MicroRNAs play a key role in how cells perform specialised functions.

Medicine Nobel 2024 awarded to Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun for discovery of microRNA

07/10/2024
The Nobel Prize for 2024 in Medicine or Physiology has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

Scientists are working on a way to detect cancer with sound waves

07/10/2024
An ultrasound-based alternative to biopsies, which are painful and cumbersome, has been hailed as promising and more advanced than previous work

What is gold?

06/10/2024
Gold doesn’t dissolve in strong nitric acid, which is why the term ‘acid test’ is used to refer to a test of someone’s character

Hidden pandemic of AMR poses challenge for modern medicine

05/10/2024
A simmering silent pandemic of superbugs that is going on for decades, is causing more havoc than most people realise. 

Meghalaya polio case reveals Health Ministry’s reluctance to share details

05/10/2024
 On August 12, the ICMR-NIV Mumbai unit confirmed and reported that the polio case detected in Meghalaya was a type 1 vaccine-derived poliovirus. CDC Atlanta has also confirmed that it is not an imported strain of type-2 VDPV or wild poliovirus type-1 

Nobel Prize 2024: When and where to watch the announcements?

05/10/2024
Here is a detailed guide on when and where to watch the Nobel Prize 2024 announcements.

‘To become an astronaut, love science, do science, and become science’

04/10/2024
ISRO astronaut Group Captain Angad Pratap is one of the four astronauts selected for India’s maiden human spaceflight mission Gaganyaan

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