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Should you panic? Old Soviet spacecraft to fall back to Earth after over 50 years; check the risk of deadly impact (AI image created with Canva)

Should you panic? Old Soviet spacecraft to fall back to Earth after 50 years

1 min read . 09 May 2025

Two leopards in a forest. (HT_PRINT)

Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness

7 min read . 07 May 2025

Equitable rules on the development of this technology, its transboundary use and genetic resource sharing are necessary. (via REUTERS)

Genetically engineered animals are here: Regulation mustn’t get left behind

4 min read . 06 May 2025

According to agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, these are the world’s first-ever genome-edited rice varieties. (PTI)

Indian scientists develop gene-edited rice as alternative to GM crops

2 min read . 04 May 2025

Broken bones, eating in cemetery: Researchers discover ancient human skeletons, revealing mysteries of Medieval women (Pexels)

Researchers discover ancient skeletons, learn mysteries about Medieval women

1 min read . 25 Apr 2025

50 seizures daily: Doctors tell teenager she would not survive to become an adult; check what happens next (Pexels)

Doctors tell teenager she wouldn’t survive to be an adult; see what happens next

1 min read . 24 Apr 2025

Earth is peeling; and, it may change how our planet looks: Scientists find strange developments in California (Pexels)

Earth is ‘peeling’; and, it may change how our planet looks

1 min read . 25 Apr 2025

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in the Soyuz MS-26 space capsule with Roscosmos cosmonauts. (Reuters)

NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit turns 70 as he lands on Earth

2 min read . 20 Apr 2025

Over the years, this column has explored the complexity of various human behaviours. (Pixabay)

Biju Dominic: Why we do what we do is hard to grasp, but don’t give up

4 min read . 16 Apr 2025

Colossal’s pups aren’t the same dire wolves that roamed during the last Ice Age. (via REUTERS)

Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolf pups aren’t proof of gene-tech defeating extinct

3 min read . 15 Apr 2025

Blue Origin posted an official group photo of the all-women crew, who completed the company's 11th human spaceflight and the 31st flight of the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez. (Blue Origin via X (Twitter))

Katy Perry's all-women space mission—watch viral videos, landing, stream & more

3 min read . 15 Apr 2025

Scientists extracted genome data of excavated dire wolf fossils, and used it to rewrite the genomic sequence of the common wolf, or Canis lupus. (AP/PTI)

Return of the dire wolf: Is this a Game of Clones?

2 min read . 09 Apr 2025

3,600-year-old mystery tomb discovered in Egypt’s City of the Dead; nobody knows whose it is (Pixabay)

3,600-year-old mystery tomb discovered in Egypt’s City of the Dead

1 min read . 08 Apr 2025

Healthy diet: Want to stay fit in old age? Start eating THESE in your 40s, says Harvard study (Pexels)

Want to stay healthy in old age? Start eating THESE in your 40s

1 min read . 07 Apr 2025

Mitochondria are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to release the energy that drives metabolism. (Image: Pixabay)

Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives

6 min read . 01 Apr 2025

India has developed its first indigenous MRI scanner, to be installed at AIIMS-Delhi in October 2025. It is expected to cut test costs by 50 percent. (Image source: ANI via X (Twitter))

India's first indigenous MRI scanner to cut cost by 50% — all you need to know

2 min read . 26 Mar 2025

This screengraB from a NASA livestream shows the SpaceX Dragon Crew-10 members (C, in dark blue) NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, clapping after entering the International Space Station flanked by NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague and Don Pettit and Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ochinin and Ivan Vagner, on March 16, 2025. (Photo by NASA / AFP)

The space station is too clean, and it’s making astronauts sick

2 min read . 25 Mar 2025

Scientists at the UK’s Oxford Drug Discovery Institute can speed up the work of digging through journals and databases by nearly ten times. (Illustration: Thomas R. Lechleiter/WSJ)

AI-powered databases boost the Alzheimer’s drug discovery process

3 min read . 24 Mar 2025

Bryan Johnson with his son Talmage and father. The family is trying to reverse aging. Johnson says he has skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity of an 18-year-old

How to enhance humans

5 min read . 22 Mar 2025

An 8-day mission turned into a 9-month ordeal for Sunita Williams, highlighting the risks of human spaceflight. (Image: AFP/Nasa)

Sunita Williams returns to Earth, but why is space travel so tricky for us?

3 min read . 19 Mar 2025