The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) snapped a striking photograph of an Einstein ring, a bizarre and intriguing optical phenomenon created by gravitational lensing. The unusual sighting was released to the public by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as the image of the month for March, and it
The only company with a higher market cap is iPhone maker Apple [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the internet. As the company, founded with a vision of putting computers in every home
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SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its sixth flight test on November 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: On March 15, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, announced on X that an uncrewed Mars landing mission will take place by the end of next year. The
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According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way. This insight was revealed at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)’s 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. The lengthy report was put together by 24 AI researchers whose
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In 2019, scholars at Cambridge University Library discovered an extremely rare 750-year-old text on the legends of King Arthur hiding in plain sight. A fragment of the fragile manuscript had been repurposed in the binding of a 16th-century property record, making it almost impossible to study the medieval text without dismantling and certainly damaging the
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A resurgence in mumps outbreaks across several States in India from 2023 onwards, has brought forth this question: is the disease now an emerging public health problem that is significant enough to warrant prevention through immunisation? Public health experts are debating this issue. In Kerala for instance, cases of mumps have spiked phenomenally, especially in
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India has pledged to reduce the health impacts of air pollution by 2040, aligning its actions with the National Clean Air Programme at the concluding session of the second World Health Organisation (WHO) conference on air pollution and health. Speaking at the conference organised in Colombian city of Cartagena, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s
The Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan launched in 2018, wherein Ni-kshay Mitras can volunteer to provide nutrition support to consented TB patients, is riddled with huge ethical problems. While the guidance document mentions that TB patients’ “consent is for receiving additional [nutrition] support”, TB patients are in effect consenting for something completely different —
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Hundreds of Tesla dealerships across the United States, Canada, and Europe saw protesters descend upon their lots on Saturday as part of a global day of action organized by the Tesla Takedown protest movement. Demonstrators turned out in significant numbers in large cities, including New York City and Chicago, with many holding signs featuring anti-Elon
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Social media platform X has sued the Union government in the Karnataka High Court for the SAHYOG portal, which it says is a “censorship portal” | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: Social media platform X has sued the Union government in the Karnataka High Court for the SAHYOG portal, which it says is a “censorship
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