All three cats that tested positive for H5N1 clade 2.3.2.1a died one-three days after sampling | Photo Credit: REUTERS A two-year-old girl from Narasaraopeta in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, who was infected with H5N1 died on March 16, 2025; she was admitted to AIIMS-Mangalagiri on March 4. ICMRâs Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) identified…
What is Aryabhata? Named after an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer (5th Century), Aryabhata was Indiaâs first satellite. Launched from Kapustin Yar with the help of the Soviets on April 19, 1975, the launch of this indigenously-built satellite marked the beginning of Indiaâs space age. The successful launch meant that India became just the 11th…
Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight onboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday (April 18, 2025). Mr. Singh…
Allergies, whether spring sneezes due to pollen or trouble breathing triggered by a certain food, are caused by a combination of someoneâs genes and the environment they live in. The more things two people share, the higher their chances of being allergic to the same things. Twins are more likely to share allergies because of…
The Calle de JordĂĄn, a short street in central Madrid, encompasses the entire cycle of human life. On one block is a fertility clinic, an increasingly common sight in a country obsessed by its shortage of babies. A block further down is a day centre for pensioners, advertising services like memory training and help with…
On Februrary 13th 2023 an object with extraterrestrial origins went screaming through the Mediterranean Sea off the Sicilian coast. A single, super-energetic subatomic particle left a sparkling trail of light in the depths. And it did so right in the middle of an odd sort of telescope that was partway through construction. In a paper…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said. Musk’s rocket and satellite company is partnering with software maker Palantir and drone builder Anduril on a bid to build key parts of Golden…
Professor Nikku Madhusudhan, one of the scientists who led the research on planet K2-18b, went viral on social media on Thursday after he spoke about the “revolutionary discovery” his team made on a planet that’s about 124 light-years from Earth. Who is Professor Nikku Madhusudhan and what “discovery” he made on K2-18b? Here’s all you…
Genetically modified âdire wolfâ pups Romulus and Remus. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: On April 7, a biotechnology company in Texas, U.S., named Colossal Biosciences announced that it had âresurrectedâ a dire wolf, a large predator that went extinct more than 12,000 years ago. The companyâs claim that it had facilitated the…
The Union Environment Ministry should roll back its 2015 policy mandating all of Indiaâs 537 coal-fired plants to install a class of equipment called Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) in order to reduce sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions. Instead, it should only apply to those plants using imported coal or high (>0.5%) sulphur coal, a study commissioned…
