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The new Padma barrage will lie just 180 km downstream of the Farakka barrage in West Bengal — which Bangladesh has blamed for the country’s periodic water scarcity. The Farakka is one of India’s largest with a feeder canal and was built to divert water from the Ganga to the Bhagirathi-Hoogly, and thus flush the Kolkata Port

An international research team has found that topsoils around the world contain some 110 quadrillion km of fungal hyphae, equal to nearly a billion trips from the earth to the sun

Brazilian authorities have stressed that the 42 cases of severe adverse events out of half-a-million vaccinated represent only 0.008%. There is no doubt that it is a small risk at the population level. At the individual level, however, even one life lost to a severe adverse event is one too many

People built modern life on petroleum, but at a big environmental cost. The Scope explores the history, scale, and the immense challenge of moving to a future without petrochemicals.

It offers researchers an unprecedented view of one of the most complex regions of the brain

The Technology Adoption Fund is designed to support Indian industry in absorbing, adapting, and commercialising advanced space technologies, thereby bridging the gap between research and operational deployment

The Technology Adoption Fund is designed to support Indian industry in absorbing, adapting, and commercialising advanced space technologies, thereby bridging the gap between research and operational deployment

Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet

ArsenSafe, the device, can accurately detect arsenic without the need for laboratory infrastructure and chemicals, making water-quality assessment faster and more accessible

Humans have learnt how to keep certain diseases from spreading using collective discipline — which is what ants are famous for

The report states that ground-mounted solar systems, which dominate India’s roughly 100 GW of installed solar capacity, require three to four times more area per megawatt than the panels themselves occupy

Artemis III will test spacecraft dockings in Earth orbit; mission is due to launch late next year

Despite the undoubted cuteness of the almost otherworldly axolotl, the use of its image has drawn backlash from many Mexico City residents, who say the poppy portrayal of the critically endangered animal is being used to distract from the capital’s lack of conservation efforts

Scientists cannot reliably predict whether an individual carrying certain gene variants will eventually end up obese. Put another way, there is no ‘obesity gene’. And for similar reasons, there is no ‘fat gene’, ‘lazy gene’ or ‘hunger gene’. Genetics is also only one part of the story behind diseases

At the 64th session of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB64), India associated itself with the positions taken on behalf of the Group of 77 and China (G-77), the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) and the BASIC bloc (Brazil, South Africa, India, China)

Slow, error-prone calculations by hand were unavoidable in the early 19th century, yet even small mistakes could ruin the designs for buildings and the journeys of ships; Charles Babbage’s ingenious machines were much more accurate, faster, and revolutionary

At the 64th session of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies (SB64), India associated itself with the positions taken on behalf of the Group of 77 and China (G-77), the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) and the BASIC bloc (Brazil, South Africa, India, China)

Research has revealed that drought-induced soil stress concentrates natural antibiotics, accelerating the evolution of resistant bacteria; this climate-driven phenomenon threatens to worsen global antibiotic resistance by 2050, particularly in vulnerable, drought-prone regions across India