Benchmarks in medicine: the promise and pitfalls of evaluating AI tools with mismatched yardsticks
In May 2024, OpenAI released HealthBench, a new benchmarking system to test the clinical capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. On the surface, this may sound like yet another technical update. But for the medical world, it marked an important moment—a quiet acknowledgement that our current ways of evaluating medical AI are […]
Cooking oils can help recover silver from e-waste
Vegetable oils of the kinds used in our daily cuisine contain organic fatty acids like linolenic and oleic acids. | Photo Credit: Joyce Romero/Unsplash In families across the world, silver is used as a precious metal, next to gold. Happy occasions in most families are celebrated with gold and silver garlands and rings. Silver is, […]
Is psychology’s replication crisis behind us?
To rebuild public trust, scholars at large have recommended research groups and journals adopt open-data policies and preregister studies. | Photo Credit: Dan Dimmock/Unsplash As if political broadsides weren’t enough to undermine public confidence in science, a deep-seated issue became apparent from within science itself in the 2010s: the replication crisis. Researchers began to realise […]
In a first, arc therapy beats tricky cancer while sparing nearby tissue
Lasers are used to position a patient model wearing a face mask in a CT scanner to obtain images of a tumour before radiation therapy. Representative image. | Photo Credit: USNCI A team of experts in the U.S. has successfully used a technique called step-and-shoot spot-scanning proton arc therapy (SPArc) to treat a patient’s adenoid […]
NEET UG final answer key 2025 released at neet.nta.nic.in: Check direct link to download PDF here
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued the final answer key for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for undergraduates (NEET UG) today, June 14, 2025. The NEET UG exam has four sets of question papers, 45, 46, 47, and 48. As per the final answer key, two questions now have multiple correct answers in […]
Rajasthan BSTC Result 2025 Date: Check when and how to download Pre DElED result online
The Rajasthan BSTC (Pre D.El.Ed) exam is an entrance test for students who want to become primary school teachers. It is conducted by the Registrar, Education Departmental Examinations, Bikaner. Every year, thousands of candidates take this state-level exam to get admission into the Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) course. The 2025 exam was held on […]
How Two Women in Hyderabad Are Improving Street Children’s Education
“I used to collect garbage with my family. I did not think I would ever go to school, and now, I dream to become an IAS officer,” says Aavula Deva Kumari, a 14-year-old student. At a traffic signal in Kukatpally, Hyderabad, a young girl holds her hand for change. Nearby, a boy sells flowers to […]
The optimism recession: Why American workforce is worried now more than ever despite stable jobs
The American workforce is navigating a storm of uncertainty, and the latest data from Glassdoor confirms just how unsettled the climate has become. According to the Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index – May 2025, just 44.1% of employees reported a positive outlook on their company’s business prospects for the next six months—the lowest figure recorded since […]
Nations advance ocean protection, vow to defend seabed
NICE: A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.But as a cacophony of ship foghorns sounded the close of the UN Ocean Conference in France, a lack of funding pledges and the […]
NEET UG 2025 Topper: Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan tops with 99.99 percentile, check complete list of toppers here
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for undergraduates (NEET UG) today, June 14, 2025. This year, the NEET UG 2025 examination was conducted on May 4, 2025 (Sunday), from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (IST). Over 22 lakh candidates appeared for the test across 5,468 […]