Messe Muenchen India expands pharma portfolio with PharmaTech Expo acquisition
The Indian subsidiary of Germany’s Messe München GmbH, has acquired PharmaTech Expo, a pharmaceutical manufacturing trade fair with over 750...
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Teaching the World’s Most Common Plastic to Stick: An Iron Catalyst Rewrites Polyethylene’s Surface Without Weakening It
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...
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...
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...
Eat More Variety, Fewer Inflammatory Foods: ICMR-NIN Study Links Diet Quality to Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk
A Hyderabad study of 615 adults, published in Nutrients, finds that people newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis ate less varied,...
Two Days After Its Nobel, Optogenetics Shows It Can Help Blind Patients See Objects Again
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a gene therapy making retinal cells sensitive to amber...
Time Kept by the Heart of an Atom: Teams in Vienna and Beijing Build the First Working Nuclear Clocks
Two papers published in Nature on 7 October describe clocks that keep time by locking a laser to a transition...
“Not Medicine or Surgery”: WHO’s First Global Guidelines on Childhood Obesity Put Families, Food and Policy Before Drugs
With 170 million children and adolescents now living with obesity — four times the 1990 prevalence — the World Health...
Left Hand, Right Hand: Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai Win the 2026 Chemistry Nobel for Explaining How Molecules Choose a Side
The French chemist Henri Kagan, 95, and Japan's Kenso Soai share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how...
Dry Fields, Record Grid: El Niño Puts Telangana’s Water and Power Systems Under Simultaneous Strain
Telangana has identified 320 of its 621 mandals as drought-hit, and its electricity demand has climbed to a claimed all-time...
“A death toll counts people, not a community”
Dr. Anjal Prakash, Professor of Public Policy at FLAME University and formerly a Coordinating Lead Author on the IPCC's Special...
Pricing the Mountain: Is South Asian Infrastructure Ahead of Its Risk Data?
Nepal's August 2026 disaster offers a dated, numbered test of how well hydropower, insurance and warning systems have priced Himalayan...
A River System at Its Limit: Reading Bihar’s 2026 Flood
In September 2026 the Ganga rose above its previous highest flood level at three gauges in Bihar. The published evidence...
Rain on the Naga Hills, Water in Sivasagar: What the Evidence Supports About Assam’s 2026 Floods
Extreme rainfall over the hills of Nagaland and vulnerable conditions on the Assam plain both played a part. Whether the...
Before the Warning Could Travel: The Physics of Lead Time in a Himalayan Valley
The flood reached the border crossing about three minutes after the collapse. Mass text alerts followed some 38 minutes after...
Tunnels in the Path: Why Hydropower Sits Inside the Hazard Corridor
Nepal's power stations were built where rivers fall fastest, which is also where mountain floods run. The August 2026 collapse...
What Climate Change Did, and Did Not Do, at Langtang Lirung
An international analysis published three weeks after the Nepal collapse links warming, thawing permafrost and thinning ice to the...
