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Polyethylene is cheap, tough and everywhere, but it is notoriously hard to glue, print on or bond to other materials....

Coal Piles Shrink as Demand Soars: Power Planners Raise Coal Needs and Regulators Open the Door to Hydrogen in Household Gas

The chief of the Central Electricity Authority warns that 87 power plants are holding critically low coal stocks, and that...

A Pandemic Pledge Without Consensus: UN Adopts Preparedness Declaration 153–3 as Ebola Passes 9,000 Cases

The UN General Assembly has adopted a political declaration on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, but by a recorded vote...

No New Water Before Summer: Hyderabad’s Pipelines Will Not Arrive in Time as IMD Warns of a “Very Strong” El Niño

The projects meant to secure Hyderabad’s water future, including a 20-TMC Godavari diversion and a ₹722-crore rebuild of the Manjeera...

At Addis Ababa, the IPCC’s member governments are trying to agree when the next global climate assessment will be delivered. (Illustration)

Climate Science on the Clock: IPCC Meets in Addis Ababa in a Last Bid to Agree When Its Next Assessment Appears, with India Among Those Seeking More Time

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opened a five-day plenary on 12 October. Its main task is one that used...

Borrowing an image-sharpening method from astronomy, researchers report that dozens of blood measures shift abruptly at menopause. Independent experts caution that the data are observational. (Illustration)

Not a Slope but a Step: 300 Million Lab Tests Suggest Menopause Brings an Abrupt, Body-Wide Shift That Begins Years Earlier Than Thought

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A Nature Medicine study from Israel’s Weizmann Institute reconstructed blood-test trajectories for more than a million women in the United...

India’s RDI Fund aims to carry technologies across the “valley of death” between laboratory proof and market. (Illustration)

India’s ₹1-Lakh-Crore R&D Bet Starts Writing Cheques: RDI Fund Names 19 Fund Managers and Backs AI-Discovered Drugs

The Research, Development and Innovation Fund has approved its first cohort of 19 fund managers, with ₹7,131 crore committed to...

With Singur holding about 12 per cent of capacity, Hyderabad’s water board will cut supplies to IIT Hyderabad and three defence and public-sector plants until next June. (Representative image)

Drought Reaches the LabGate: Hyderabad to Ration Water to IIT Hyderabad and Defence Plants as Singur Runs Dry

Telangana’s El Niño crisis has moved from farms to the city and its strategic institutions. Hyderabad’s water board will cut...

More food groups, fewer inflammatory foods: an ICMR-NIN study links dietary diversity with lower odds of rheumatoid arthritis. (Representative image)

Eat More Variety, Fewer Inflammatory Foods: ICMR-NIN Study Links Diet Quality to Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk