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The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded

Published on Jun 17, 2026 03:54 pm IST

FILE - Drought-stressed wheat plants stand adjacent to parched ground in a field near Macksville, Kan., May 16, 2026.(AP)

The ocean patch that is cooling in a warming world, and what it means

The cold blob south of Greenland, visible on this temperature map. The visualisation shows temperature changes from 1880 to 2015 as a rolling five-year average. Orange represents areas warmer than the 1951-80 baseline, and blue, areas cooler than the baseline.(Courtesy: Nasa)

Updated on Jun 13, 2026 12:45 pm IST

Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West

China leads the Nature index, a ranking of countries by number of papers published in a set of respected journals.(PEXEL)

Published on Jun 11, 2026 05:05 pm IST

New techniques can predict and prevent lung cancer

Despite dramatic declines in smoking, lung cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis globally.(Unsplash)

Published on Jun 11, 2026 04:02 pm IST

Heat, instability, 128kmph winds: Science behind dust storms hitting Delhi-NCR

A dust storm in New Delhi on Tuesday evening. (ANI)

Published on Jun 10, 2026 06:15 pm IST

Rocket goes boom; so do moon plans

The sky lights up as fire and smoke rises during an explosion of the uncrewed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket during a test on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 28, 2026(Reuters)

Published on Jun 04, 2026 04:30 pm IST

Scientifically Speaking: A pill takes on pancreatic cancer

A bottle of daraxonrasib, Revolution Medicine’s pancreatic cancer drug. (Reuters)

Published on Jun 02, 2026 03:03 pm IST

Should you use a sleep tracker?

Most trackers are very good at distinguishing sleep from being awake.

Published on Jun 01, 2026 03:55 pm IST

Too much time with colleagues can sour social interaction

As the winter progressed, the hivernauts reported increasing levels of loneliness and paranoia, and rated their individual performance lower.

Updated on May 28, 2026 03:12 pm IST

Why science is becoming less innovative

Analysing the careers of 12.5m scientists, Haochuan Cui and Yiling Lin, both of the University of Pittsburgh, along with co-authors, find that scientists become less likely to produce disruptive work as they age. (PEXEL)

Published on May 26, 2026 05:04 pm IST

Super El Nino: Scientists warn about potential of upcoming event

Scientists say a potentially

Published on May 22, 2026 01:25 pm IST

Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them much better

Demand for batteries has never been greater.

Published on May 21, 2026 04:51 pm IST

Why many women cannot make enough breast milk

For many women, the explanation lies not in how they breastfeed but in the composition and function of unique cells in the mammary gland, over which they have no control. (Unsplash)

Published on May 13, 2026 09:01 pm IST

A Breakthrough Heart Procedure Comes With Risky Tradeoffs

The idea of a surgeon cracking her chest open and stopping her heart terrified her.

Published on Apr 24, 2026 01:15 pm IST

Why eldest siblings are brainier

Using Danish administrative data, the researchers concluded that younger siblings were two to three times more likely than older siblings to be hospitalised for severe respiratory illnesses in their first year.(Unsplash)

Published on Apr 17, 2026 11:36 am IST

Did NASA check for sharks before the Artemis II splashdown? Space agency says…

Snippets from Artemis II splashdown video shared by NASA. (X/@NASA)

Published on Apr 11, 2026 10:24 am IST

Is playing music good for the brain?

Illustration: Cristina Spanò(The Economist)

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 03:31 pm IST

New Study Probes Mystery of Neanderthal-Human Interbreeding

A modern reconstruction of a Neanderthal. Martin Meissner/AP

Published on Feb 27, 2026 11:51 am IST

Scientifically Speaking: AI is writing code and changing jobs. Who benefits?

Representational Image(Pixabay)

Updated on Feb 26, 2026 05:39 pm IST

Six planets to appear together this week; rare parade visible to naked eye

Six planets to light-up evening sky on February 28 in rare alignment(Representative image)

Updated on Feb 25, 2026 12:08 pm IST

307-million-year-old skull reveals Earth’s earliest ‘vegetarian’ animal

An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-sized plant-eating creature with a skull packed with specialized teeth. (via REUTERS)

Published on Feb 12, 2026 03:58 pm IST

Team effort, collaboration among countries at heart of Sunita Williams’ learning

Williams was on a crewed mission aboard the Boeing Starliner, which was supposed to last eight days but ended up lasting nine months due to several technical problems. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 11:34 pm IST

How to export life to Mars

SpaceX's Mission Mars aims to contribute to the aspirations of building a city on the Red Planet. (spacex.com)

Published on Jan 06, 2026 10:52 am IST

Blame Our Love of Booze on Our Primate Ancestors

A chimpanzee in Uganda eating fruit scrumped from the ground.

Published on Nov 30, 2025 08:52 am IST

This Indian city rivals Tokyo and Singapore in brightness seen from ISS

An Indian city captured from the International Space Station (ISS). (X/@Space_Station)

Published on Nov 21, 2025 07:53 am IST

Fortis nutritionist says ‘1 tbsp pumpkin seeds may improve heart health’

Pumpkin seeds a day may improve heart health, nutritionist says(Freepik)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 09:00 am IST

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Trying to Make One Anyway.

Representational image.

Updated on Nov 09, 2025 10:28 am IST

China’s Tianwen 1 captures rare images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near Mars

A black space background with stars as white streaks and a single fuzzy white dot, comet 3I/ATLAS in an image created from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter October 3, 2025.(ESA/TGO/CaSSIS/Handout via REUTERS)

Published on Nov 07, 2025 07:05 pm IST

Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

Representational photo.(Pixaby/Representational Image)

Published on Oct 30, 2025 12:41 pm IST

AI models ace their predictions of India’s monsoon rains

A farmer ploughs his field to prepare for cultivation as monsoon clouds gather in the sky at Malda, in West Bengal, in eastern India. (PTI file photo)

Updated on Oct 23, 2025 08:32 am IST

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