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Is playing music good for the brain?

Updated on Mar 21, 2026 03:31 pm IST

Illustration: Cristina Spanò(The Economist)

New Study Probes Mystery of Neanderthal-Human Interbreeding

A modern reconstruction of a Neanderthal. Martin Meissner/AP

Published on Feb 27, 2026 11:51 am IST

Scientifically Speaking: AI is writing code and changing jobs. Who benefits?

Representational Image(Pixabay)

Updated on Feb 26, 2026 05:39 pm IST

Six planets to appear together this week; rare parade visible to naked eye

Six planets to light-up evening sky on February 28 in rare alignment(Representative image)

Updated on Feb 25, 2026 12:08 pm IST

307-million-year-old skull reveals Earth’s earliest ‘vegetarian’ animal

An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-sized plant-eating creature with a skull packed with specialized teeth. (via REUTERS)

Published on Feb 12, 2026 03:58 pm IST

Team effort, collaboration among countries at heart of Sunita Williams’ learning

Williams was on a crewed mission aboard the Boeing Starliner, which was supposed to last eight days but ended up lasting nine months due to several technical problems. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 20, 2026 11:34 pm IST

How to export life to Mars

SpaceX's Mission Mars aims to contribute to the aspirations of building a city on the Red Planet. (spacex.com)

Published on Jan 06, 2026 10:52 am IST

Blame Our Love of Booze on Our Primate Ancestors

A chimpanzee in Uganda eating fruit scrumped from the ground.

Published on Nov 30, 2025 08:52 am IST

This Indian city rivals Tokyo and Singapore in brightness seen from ISS

An Indian city captured from the International Space Station (ISS). (X/@Space_Station)

Published on Nov 21, 2025 07:53 am IST

Fortis nutritionist says ‘1 tbsp pumpkin seeds may improve heart health’

Pumpkin seeds a day may improve heart health, nutritionist says(Freepik)

Published on Nov 12, 2025 09:00 am IST

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Trying to Make One Anyway.

Representational image.

Updated on Nov 09, 2025 10:28 am IST

China’s Tianwen 1 captures rare images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near Mars

A black space background with stars as white streaks and a single fuzzy white dot, comet 3I/ATLAS in an image created from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter October 3, 2025.(ESA/TGO/CaSSIS/Handout via REUTERS)

Published on Nov 07, 2025 07:05 pm IST

Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

Representational photo.(Pixaby/Representational Image)

Published on Oct 30, 2025 12:41 pm IST

AI models ace their predictions of India’s monsoon rains

A farmer ploughs his field to prepare for cultivation as monsoon clouds gather in the sky at Malda, in West Bengal, in eastern India. (PTI file photo)

Updated on Oct 23, 2025 08:32 am IST

The strange role of lead poisoning in humanity’s success

Representative teeth.(University of York.)

Updated on Oct 16, 2025 10:30 am IST

Scientifically Speaking: The wrinkled rodent that forgot how to age

These creatures can survive without oxygen for nearly twenty minutes and often die not of disease. (Getty Images | Washington Post)

Published on Oct 13, 2025 03:42 pm IST

A Nobel for the physics that ushered in quantum computing

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis were this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics. (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 08, 2025 10:50 am IST

How Nobel laureates uncovered the body’s immune watchdogs

The portraits of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi displayed during a press conference where the winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were announced at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 07, 2025 02:17 am IST

A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction

A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction

Updated on Oct 01, 2025 08:59 pm IST

A new technique can turn a woman’s skin cells into eggs

This undated image provided by the Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University shows a a microscope image of a human egg that contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory via AP)(AP)

Updated on Oct 01, 2025 08:48 pm IST

NASA considers using nuclear bombs to destroy Moon-bound asteroid 2024 YR4

This artistic animation shows asteroid 2024 YR4 passing by Earth.(AP)

Updated on Sept 30, 2025 12:34 pm IST

Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer

Cancerous cells can also be outcompeted.

Published on Sept 03, 2025 05:30 pm IST

Space Habitats Are Getting an Extreme Makeover

A future vision of Aurelia Institute’s Tesserae modular space station in orbit.

Published on Aug 31, 2025 11:00 am IST

The truth about seed oils

Photo: AP FILE

Published on Aug 31, 2025 12:00 am IST

‘Mirror life’: This synthetic form could end humanity, scientists warn

For life forms on earth, the DNA double-helix is right-handed. Image for representation.(Pixabay)

Published on Aug 29, 2025 08:50 am IST

Scientists Have Unlocked the Secret That Gives Fine Chocolate Its Great Taste

Cocoa beans that have been dried and bagged after fermentation.

Published on Aug 28, 2025 10:30 am IST

A Chinese lab starts to tackle a giant mystery in particle physics

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in the universe(Photo:juno.ihep.cas.cn)

Published on Aug 28, 2025 06:00 am IST

RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., speaks during a press conference in Washington, D.C.(REUTERS FILE)

Published on Aug 21, 2025 06:00 pm IST

The discovery of a gene for chronic pain could herald new treatments

Scientists have identified a protein involved in transporting molecules related to pain across nerve cells, which they believe could be responsible for long-lasting pain.(PIXABAY)

Published on Aug 21, 2025 04:00 pm IST

RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Attack on mRNA Research

A nurse fills a syringe with a Covid vaccine in Waterford, Mich., April 8, 2022.

Updated on Aug 19, 2025 03:45 pm IST

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