Amazon has begun the full-scale deployment of its Project Kuiper satellite internet network. Now, all eyes are on the assembly of Amazon’s “big new satellite-internet constellation” that, reports say, will rival SpaceX’s Starlink. Amazon, a company that Bezos started as an online bookseller decades ago, launched the first batch of 27 internet satellites for its…
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) in Bengaluru. C-CAMP said that the national Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR) Challenge was launched in August 2024. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Four Bengaluru-based institutions, including the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), are among the winners of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR) Challenge 2024-25….
 Despite covering less than 1% of the world’s ocean area, the Bay of Bengal provides nearly 8% of global fishery production. | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar Strong and weak monsoons can influence marine productivity in the Bay of Bengal, a study exploring fluctuations in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) over the past 22,000 years has…
Rajeev K. Varshney from Murdoch University with a clutch of peanuts. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A team of 19 researchers from Australia and China have unlocked the genetic key to developing higher-yielding varieties of peanut or groundnut, a major food and oilseed crop in India. Their pan-genome analysis, revealing the structural variation associated with…
(Bloomberg) — It’s a worst case scenario that grid operators plan for but hope never to encounter. After one of the worst blackouts in Europe in more than a decade, electricity grid operators in Spain and Portugal are trying to get networks back up and running from the ground up. The initial estimate from grid…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — As pressure grows to get artificial colors out of the U.S. food supply, the shift may well start at Abby Tampow’s laboratory desk. On an April afternoon, the scientist hovered over tiny dishes of red dye, each a slightly different ruby hue. Her task? To match the synthetic shade used for…
Assorted brands of honey are seen at a supermarket in Vienna, Austria, on April 3. | Photo Credit: AFP At a laboratory in Austria’s mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a month to learn about their composition — and in some cases to determine whether they have been adulterated. With…
The International Space Station (ISS). The experiments will be conducted during the upcoming Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4). | Photo Credit: NASA TV Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shortlisted seven microgravity research experiments, which are expected to be conducted on board the International Space Station (ISS) during the upcoming Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4). The upcoming Ax-4 mission,…
Every year, farmers battle an invisible, relentless, formidable enemy: plant viruses. Unlike bacteria or fungi, which can be controlled with pesticides or fungicides, there is no straightforward way to cure crops of viral infections. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), plant pests and diseases destroy nearly 40% of the world’s annual crop,…
According tothe World Organisation for Animal Health, as of February 20, 2025, H5N1 has been found in 99 cats and has killed 18 cats. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) has shared the H5N1 genome sequence data with the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID), a public database,…
