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Toby Kiers Wins Tyler Prize for Mycorrhizal Research

Beneath forests, grasslands and farmlands lies a vast underground fungal system that quietly regulates Earth’s climate. These mycorrhizal networks form nutrient-trading partnerships with plant roots and draw down...

January 16, 2026

Huntington’s Disease Research Offers New Hope for Treatment

Huntington’s disease (HD), a progressive and inherited neurological disorder, has long been regarded as incurable. Affecting movement, cognition, and emotional regulation, the condition is usually diagnosed between the...

January 16, 2026

Ultracold Atoms Reveal Hidden Quantum World

In everyday language, cold refers to winter air or chilled rooms. In physics, however, cold has a precise and extreme meaning. The lowest possible temperature is absolute zero,...

January 15, 2026

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Shockwave From White Dwarf

Astronomers have observed a rare and puzzling phenomenon involving a highly magnetised white dwarf that is generating a vivid, multicoloured shockwave as it travels through space. The discovery,...

January 15, 2026

China Fusion Reactor Breaks Longstanding Density Barrier

Scientists operating China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have achieved a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research by sustaining plasma densities far beyond a long-established theoretical limit. The advance...

January 14, 2026

One Satellite Survives PSLV-C62 Failure, Sends Data Briefly

In a rare outcome following a launch failure, a small foreign satellite managed to survive long enough to transmit data after the malfunction of India’s PSLV-C62 mission. While...

January 14, 2026

MeitY to Host BHASHINI Samudaye Workshop on Language AI Ecosystem

The Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will organise “BHASHINI Samudaye: Strengthening India’s Language AI Ecosystem” on 13 January 2026 at Nalanda...

January 13, 2026

Orobanche Weed Threatens Mustard Yields Across Key Growing States

India’s mustard crop, the country’s largest indigenous source of edible oil, is facing a growing agronomic challenge from the parasitic weed Orobanche aegyptiaca. Cultivated across nearly nine million...

January 13, 2026

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham MoU with CSIR–NIScPR Strengthens Research Collaboration

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CSIR–National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research to deepen collaboration in research, science communication, and science-and-technology policy...

January 12, 2026

PSLV-C62 Launch Faces Anomaly During Third Stage Flight

India’s first space mission of 2026 began with a successful lift-off but soon ran into a technical challenge. The PSLV-C62 mission, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation,...

January 12, 2026

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