Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important food crops in the world. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Sandy Ravaloniaina/Unsplash Scientists have assembled a first of its kind ‘pangenome’, a kind of reference genome, by stitching together key parts of genomes from 144 varieties of wild and cultivated varieties of rice…
Climate-driven food shortage and undernourishment could affect the composition of the human gut microbiota, exacerbating the effects of climate change on human health, according to a new review article published in The Lancet Planetary Health. The article comes on the heels of a growing number of studies that highlight the key role food and nutrition…
In 2016, when Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo at the University of Granada in Spain met Kaspar Delhey, an expert in bird coloration at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, a new collaboration was born. “He suggested we study whether urbanisation is associated with differences in bird coloration,” Delhey said. Many studies have investigated how urban…
ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan addresses a press conference on updates on the Gaganyaan Programme, at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on May 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The launch of India’s maiden human space flight — Gaganyaan — has been pushed to the first quarter of 2027, nearly five years later than…
A: The increase in core temperature observed during illness is commonly called fever and occurs in response to infection by a pathogen or certain types of physical injury. When a person becomes infected with bacteria, the white blood cells of the immune system recognise the incoming pathogen as foreign and initiate the first stages of…
A group of Haenyeo women on Jeju Island, September 2012. | Photo Credit: Idobi (CC BY-SA) A new study has presented evidence of both genetic adaptation and physiological changes among the Haenyeo, a unique group of women in South Korea’s Jeju Island known for diving up to 10 m underwater and up to seven hours…
Representative purposes. | Photo Credit: DRDO A set of parachutes developed for the first uncrewed mission of India’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme was shipped from Agra on Monday (May 5, 2025). The parachutes were developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), an Agra-based laboratory under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)….
The Government of India and a clutch of startups have set their sights on creating an indigenous foundational Artificial Intelligence large language model (LLM), along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama. Foundational AI, or LLMs, are manually trained systems that can churn out responses to queries. Training them requires large amounts…
The Government of India and a clutch of startups have set their sights on creating an indigenous foundational Artificial Intelligence large language model (LLM), along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s Llama. Foundational AI, or LLMs, are manually trained systems that can churn out responses to queries. Training them requires large amounts…
Daily Quiz | On Space Firsts 1 / 7 | Who was the first woman in space in 1963? 2 / 7 | What first was achieved on November 3, 1957? Answer : The dog Laika, the first living creature, was launched into space by USSR DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? YES NO SHOW ANSWER…
