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Nasa's Parker probe to have closest sun flyby on Christmas Eve, know more

According to reports, Parker is expected to transmit a beacon signal to share information about its health and operational status. It is going to be closest to the sun this Christmas eve

US lawmakers demand to scrap China science agreement renewal deal for 5 yrs

Extension comes despite repeated requests from Congress to either suspend the agreement or implement stronger safeguards to protect US national security, human rights, and intellectual property

CSIR-NIIST director Anandharamakrishnan to get Tata Transformation Prize

C Anandharamakrishnan, agricultural scientist and Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), has been selected for this year's Tata Transformation Prize, the institute said here on Monday. The award is jointly instituted by Tata Sons and the New York Academy of Sciences. The Tata Transformation Prize recognises outstanding scientists working on pioneering technologies in the fields of food security, sustainability, and healthcare, a release said. A pioneer in food engineering research, Anandharamakrishnan's work towards the development of fortified rice has the potential of making a far-reaching impact in addressing the dual challenges of providing a vital nutritional boost and a healthier diet to millions, the New York Academy of Sciences noted while announcing the award. Award winners are selected by a confidential jury, independently chosen by the New York Academy of Sciences, ...

Bayer CropScience Q2FY25 results: Net profit falls 38.85% to Rs 136.3 cr

Bayer CropScience Ltd, the Indian unit of German crop science group Bayer AG, on Wednesday posted a 38.85 per cent slump in net profit to Rs 136.3 crore in the September 2024 quarter, hurt by higher expenses. The company reported a net profit of Rs 222.9 crore a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing. Its total income rose to Rs 1,761.3 crore in the second quarter of this fiscal from Rs 1,633.3 crore in the year-ago period. However, expenses remained higher by 18.34 per cent to Rs 1,571.2 crore against Rs 1,327.6 crore in the said period a year ago. Its Managing Director and CEO Simon Wiebusch said the Q2 increase in the revenue from the operations was primarily driven by higher volumes which were partially offset by price pressure rooted in lower producer prices in China. "Our margins were negatively impacted by higher production costs in corn seeds due to adverse weather conditions as well as a higher cost of goods sold in our chemical business," he said. Despite these

World Science Day for Peace and Development 2024: History, significance

The world celebrates World Science Day every year on November 10, 2024. The theme for this year is 'Why Science Matters - Engaging Minds and Empowering Futures'

South Africa amends guidelines to allow genetically modified children

Heritable human genome editing has long been hotly contested, in large part because of its societal and eugenic implications

Class 10 Maths, Science pass marks in Maharashtra could fall to 20 from 35

Maharashtra SCERT has proposed lowering passing marks for Class 10 Maths and Science from 35 to 20. However, there's a caveat...

GSEB Gujarat Board Exam 2025: SSC, HSC Science stream registration starts

The Gujarat Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has announced the GSEB 2025 Class 10 and Class 12 exam dates. Check details here

Titan submersible's director says sub malfunctioned prior to Titanic dive

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified on Thursday that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive. A mission specialist for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year told the US Coast Guard on Thursday that the firm was staffed by competent people who wanted to make dreams come true. Renata Rojas was the latest person to testify who was connected to Titan owner OceanGate. An investigatory panel had previously listened to two days of testimony that raised questions about the company's operations before the doomed mission. OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among five people who died when the submersible imploded en route to the site of the Titanic wreck in June 2023. Rojas' testimony struck a different tone than some of the earlier witnesses, who described the company as troubled from the top down and focused more on profit than ...

AI tool xFakeSci achieves 94% accuracy in identifying fake research papers

Researchers have developed a tool that could tell apart an original research article from one created by AI-chatbots, including ChatGPT. In a set of 300 fake and real scientific papers, the AI-based tool, named 'xFakeSci', detected up to 94 per cent of the fake ones. This was nearly twice the success rate seen among the more common data-mining techniques, the authors from the State University of New York, US, and Hefei University of Technology, China, said. "... we introduce xFakeSci, a novel learning algorithm, that is capable of distinguishing ChatGPT-generated articles from publications produced by scientists," they wrote in the study published in the journal Scientific Reports. For developing the AI-based algorithm, the researchers developed two distinct datasets. One of them contained almost 4,000 scientific articles taken from PubMed, an open database housing biomedical and life sciences research papers and maintained by the US National Institutes of Health. The other consis

Bridging the pivotal language-knowledge gap for a Viksit Bharat by 2047

The integration of Indian knowledge systems into modern education holds tremendous potential in bridging the gap between traditional Indian thinking and contemporary science and technology

'India 3rd in female researchers' growth; global equality remains elusive'

India ranks third in the growth rate of women researchers, according to a report from scientific information disseminator Elsevier, which also underlined that gender equality in the domain remains "unacceptably far away" globally. At two per cent, India's yearly growth rate of women's share of active researchers over the last decade was the third highest, behind Egypt and The Netherlands only, the report titled 'Progress Towards Gender Equality in Research and Innovation - 2024 Review' said. Analysing inclusion and diversity across disciplines and geographies over 20 years, the report found that in India, women now make up 33 per cent of active researchers, compared to 22 per cent in Japan and 30 per cent in Egypt. India is now the world's third largest research producing country, it said. "India's rapid growth in women researchers highlights the ongoing gender equity efforts and are truly encouraging," said Prof Sandeep Sancheti, Vice President of Research Relations & Academic ...

PBOC to give $69 billion in loans to boost science, technology sectors

The refinancing program is set to help small- and medium-sized technology firms in their initial startup and growth stages and provide credit support to high-end projects, it said

National Pi Day 2024: Everything you need to know about the special day

Pi Day 2024 is celebrated every year on 14 March. This day is dedicated to the mathematical constant pi (3.14), and it is a time to celebrate the excellence of maths and its applications

National Science Day 2024: All you need to know about Raman Effect

National Science Day 2024 is celebrated on February 28 to honour Dr. CV Raman for his discovery of the Raman Effect. National Science Day is a great day for all researchers and science lovers

India, Canada discuss collaboration in science, technology sector

India and Canada on Wednesday discussed collaboration as well as joint ventures in areas like electric vehicles, cyber physical system, quantum technologies, green hydrogen fuel and deep ocean mining. A high-level Canadian delegation led by Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan province, held discussions with Science & Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on partnerships in areas such as clean technologies, bioeconomy, bio-based materials for different applications, food & agriculture technologies, affordable healthcare including pharmaceuticals and biomedical instrumentation. Singh categorically mentioned 'Global Biofuels Alliance' (GBA), an initiative by India as the G20 Chair last year, bringing together the biggest consumers and producers of biofuels to drive development and deployment of biofuels. Welcoming the Canadian delegation, Singh said 23 lakh Indian diaspora were reinforcing Indo-Canadian relations and contributing to the development of both the nation. Moe said the ...

GATE 2024 admit cards to be released today: Check key dates, exam details

GATE 2024 will be conducted February 3, 4, 10, and 11. Here are all the details on the exam, centres, questions papers, and where & how to download the admit card

Chandrayaan-3 to brain decoder, top 10 scientific achievements of 2023

Year ender 2023: Here, we look at some of these achievements, which serve as beacons of inspiration, symbolising the determination of the human spirit in the face of unprecedented challenges

Hunger hormone can cross the blood-brain barrier, impact brain: Study

A study on mice has shown how gut-produced hunger hormones can influence decision-making and drive an animal's behaviour. The researchers said that the findings demonstrate how the hunger hormone can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly impact the brain to drive activity, controlling a circuit in the brain that is likely to be the same or similar in humans. The blood-brain barrier is known to strictly restrict many substances in the blood from reaching the brain. The study findings are published in the journal, Neuron Researchers put mice in an arena that had some food, and looked at how the mice acted when they were hungry or full. While all the mice spent time investigating the food, only the hungry ones would begin eating, the researchers at University College London, UK, found. They also used brain imaging to study activity in the mice's ventral hippocampus, which is a decision-making part of the brain understood to help form and use memories to guide behaviour. The ...

World Science Day For Peace and Development 2023: All details inside

The World Science Day For Peace and Development aims to raise awareness about the ill impacts of scientific developments and the role of science in sustainable development