Decades-Old Compound TOFA Shows Promise as an Obesity Treatment That Burns Fat Without Losing Muscle
UC Berkeley researchers found that TOFA, tested in obese mice, increases energy expenditure by up to 18% and reduces fat...
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AI Model Decodes the DNA “On-Switch” Present in Roughly 60% of Human Genes
UC San Diego researchers used machine learning trained on half a million experimental DNA variants to crack the sequence code...
CERN Physicists Recreate a “Little Big Bang” Using Surprisingly Small Atomic Nuclei
An international team working with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider has produced primordial quark-gluon plasma — matter...
Hyderabad Scientists Solve 20-Year Mystery of How a Deadly Brain-Infecting Fungus Turns Monstrous
Researchers at CSIR's Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology have identified the biological circuit that allows Cryptococcus neoformans — a...
Assam and Guwahati Researchers Develop “Smart” Cancer Drug That Switches On Only Inside Tumour Cells, Sparing Healthy Tissue
Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT Guwahati have engineered RK-251, a prodrug...
China Deploys “Robocops” to Direct Traffic, Enhancing Road Safety and Efficiency
In a significant leap towards integrating artificial intelligence into public services, China has begun deploying advanced humanoid robots, colloquially termed...
Higher-Dose Zinc Cuts Infections by More Than a Third in Ugandan Children With Sickle-Cell Anaemia, Reversing an Earlier Null Result
A new randomised trial from Jinja Regional Referral Hospital found that 20mg of daily oral zinc cut overall infection rates...
OpenAI Admits It Slowed Frontier AI Development After a Test Agent Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face
A cybersecurity test that was meant to stay contained instead saw an autonomous AI agent break out of its testing...
China’s LandSpace Becomes First Private Chinese Company to Land an Orbital-Class Rocket Booster, Joining SpaceX and Blue Origin
The Zhuque-3 rocket's stainless-steel first stage touched down on deployable legs in Gansu province on Wednesday, eight months after an...
IIT Guwahati and IASST Unveil RK-251, a “Smart” Prodrug Designed to Activate Only Inside Cancer Cells
Is it Still a Test-Tube and Zebrafish Result, Not a Cancer Treatment?! A collaboration between the Indian Institute of Technology...
A Gut-Bacteria Byproduct Called Imidazole Propionate Is Emerging as a Genuine Alzheimer’s Risk Factor, Wisconsin Study Finds
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have linked a compound produced by certain gut bacteria to lower cognitive scores, worse...
IIT Mandi’s “Sea-Urchin” Coating Could Cut Infection Risk in 3D-Printed Bone Implants Without a Single Antibiotic
Researchers at IIT Mandi have developed a two-stage mineral coating for 3D-printed bone scaffolds that physically shreds bacteria on contact...
Beyond the Lab Bench: Satya Prasad on 5 Counter-Intuitive Lessons from 25 Years of Smart Labtech in Instrumentation
The Vacuum Between Sales and Service How Venkata Satya Prasad Potharaju turned a twenty-five-year itch — the gap he saw...
FLOOD HERE, DROUGHT THERE: A Tale of Two Indias in Monsoon
India's monsoon this year has stopped behaving like a season and started behaving like two contradictory seasons occupying the same...
The Metallurgist Who Forged Seamlessness
Dr. Komal Kapoor and the Quiet Craft of India's Strategic Self-Reliance There is a word that recurs, almost like a...
Dr. Komal Kapoor Takes the Helm of ECIL as Chairman & Managing Director
The Chief Executive of the Nuclear Fuel Complex — the metallurgist who kept India's reactors fuelled and its missiles tubed...
Scotland honours India’s surgical pioneer Sushruta
The Father of Surgery Comes Home to the House of Surgeons A 90-kg bronze of Maharishi Sushruta, cast by...
The Overwhelmed Nervous System: Understanding and Soothing Stress’s Toll
In today's fast-paced world, stress has become an unwelcome yet pervasive companion. While often viewed as a mental burden, its...
Awiqli, World’s First Once-Weekly Basal Insulin, Launched in India
A Potential Turning Point for the Country's 10-Crore Diabetes Burden Novo Nordisk has rolled out Awiqli (insulin icodec) in India, marking the...
SCIENCE ADMINISTRATOR AT THE NERVE CENTRE
Dr. Joy Kumar Chakma Scientist 'F' & Head, Central Procurement Cell | Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi In...
