Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently enabled scientists to create two new antibiotics capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria such as gonorrhoea and MRSA. This breakthrough comes amid a global...
Snakebite envenoming remains a critical health challenge in India, especially in regions where the standard polyvalent antivenom is less effective. Recent calls from herpetologists and health experts emphasise...
Kerala’s Kozhikode district recently reported three consecutive cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). One victim, a nine-year-old girl, died. Two others, including a three-month-old infant, remain critically ill....
India is set to begin commercial production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at scale by December 2025. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest fuel refiner and retailer,...
Recent advances in synthetic biology and bioelectrochemistry have led to the development of self-powered chemical sensors using genetically engineered bacteria. Researchers from Imperial College London and Zhejiang University...
Recent botanical research has uncovered a new species of palm in India and reclassified existing ones within the genus Phoenix. These findings stem from revisiting the 17th-century work...
India reached a new milestone in ocean exploration in August 2025. Two Indian aquanauts descended to depths of 4,025 and 5,002 metres in the Atlantic Ocean. This achievement...
Recent research in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre has revealed a giant virus named PelV-1. This virus infects the plankton Pelagodinium and possesses a tail far longer than...
Recent discoveries in Sulawesi, Indonesia, have pushed back the timeline of early human habitation in the Wallacea region to about 1.5 million years ago. Archaeologists unearthed stone tools...
Recent research has uncovered gigantic mud waves nearly a kilometre beneath the Atlantic seabed west of Guinea-Bissau. These structures date back 117 million years and were sculpted by...
