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Why in news? Researchers described a quartz-rich banded rock from the Singhbhum Craton in eastern India. Zircon grains date the deposit to about 3.497...
Why in news? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi developed a spiky ceramic coating for three-dimensional printed bone scaffolds. T...
Why in news? The IndiaAI Mission organised an AIKosh workshop at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on 20 August 2026. Participants came from gover...
Why in news? A Hamburg-based biotechnology company called AquaNab is developing a feed-based treatment for sea lice in farmed salmon. The approach use...
Why in news?Researchers mapped how the Sld3–Sld7 complex detects a prepared replicative helicase and loads the Cdc45 protein. What does a helicase d...
Why in news?A 32-year-old Visakhapatnam man was diagnosed after nearly six years of recurring lymph-node swelling. He had repeatedly received treatmen...
Why in news?A national audit found Escherichia coli in water-cooler samples at eight railway stations across four zones. What the audit found The Comp...
Why in news?A mouse study linked deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double-strand breaks with Huntington’s disease-like brain damage. What is Huntington’...
Why in news?Defence start-up D-Propulse announced a ground test of its five-kilonewton rotating detonation engine in Hyderabad. What the company repor...
Why in news?A 2026 genetic study found under-recognised variation inside expanded repeats that cause Friedreich ataxia. The disease and its usual gene...
Why in news?The National Aeronautics and Space Administration scheduled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for launch on 30 August. Launch and dest...
Why in news?New programme data highlighted wider access to advanced chip-design tools and hands-on semiconductor training across Indian institutions. ...
