How a Pond Alga Gave Neuroscience a Light Switch for the Brain: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg[…]
Teaching the Body to Hunt Its Own Cancer: The Science Behind the mRNA Cancer Vaccine
On August 19, 2026, two drug companies announced a result that cancer researchers had waited years to see. In a large Phase 3 trial, a[…]
Deciphering Super El Niño: What it means for India’s fields, the world’s food bills and everyday life
India’s southwest monsoon closed on September 30 as its weakest in more than a decade, and the weather pattern widely blamed for it is not[…]
ShepHertz Unveils Three Offline AI Model Families for Small Devices at Drone Expo 2026
ShepHertz Technologies introduced three AI model families at Drone Expo 2026 that, as per the company, are built in India and designed to run fully[…]
Nine of the World’s 10 Richest Are Now Tech Founders as the AI Boom Reshapes the Billionaire Ranking
The world’s rich list has become, almost entirely, a list of technology founders. On the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of October 3, nine of the[…]
Russia Isolates Nearly 200 After Lab Worker’s Death in Siberia; Officials Now Cite “Pneumonia of Unknown Aetiology”
A laboratory worker at an anti-plague institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region has died, and close to 200 people who may have had contact with her[…]
Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time and Deploys 26 Starlink V3 Satellites. Musk Says Hourly Flights Are 2–3 Years Away
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time on September 28, deploying 26 upgraded Starlink V3 satellites before splashing down in the Pacific. It is[…]
Earth and Mars Were Born in the Same Cloud, but Built in Different Ways, New Study Finds
Earth and Mars formed 4.5 billion years ago in the same rotating cloud of gas and dust that became the solar system. A new study[…]
