Rare diseases have a lot to gain from greater awareness
Microscopic image of cross-sectional calf muscle from a person with Duchenne muscular dystrophy showing extensive replacement of muscle fibres by fat cells. | Photo Credit: US CDC About 10,000 rare diseases have thus far been identified in the world, and new ones are discovered every now and then. Some 80% of these conditions are genetic […]
BioEmu AI reveals protein choreography in biological conditions
Proteins aren’t rigid sculptures. They twist, flex, and sometimes unravel — movements essential to understanding their function. Some proteins, like enzymes, open like clamshells to grab molecules. Others such as signalling proteins shift shape to control cell processes. Still others briefly reveal hidden gaps where drugs can bind. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like AlphaFold have […]
Team makes powerful water filter with help from light, vibrations
Dr Aviru Basu’s research group. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Scientists from the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) in Mohali, IIT-Dharwad, and IIT-Kharagpur have designed a cheap, reusable water filter. Industrial plants release dyes such as Congo Red and Methylene Blue into rivers and groundwater, from where they can cause stomach, skin, and […]
Landing on the red planet
Up, up, and away! The question of whether Mars supports life, or if it has in any point of its history, has been on the minds of people – both scientists and common folk – for a very long time. Flyby explorations of the red planet in the 1960s ended hopes of an inhabited world. […]
TS ECET counselling 2025: Final phase seat allotment released, direct link to check list here
TS ECET final phase seat allotment list released. The final phase seat allotment results for Telangana State ECET 2025 have been released at tgecet.nic.in. The TS ECET exam is held for diploma and BSc (Mathematics) students who want to join engineering colleges through lateral entry.With the final round of counselling now over, students must check […]
SSC tightens PwBD verification rules: Original certificate mandatory for scribe, extra time in exams
SSC tightens PwBD verification rules In a significant policy shift aimed at tightening disability verification during recruitment exams, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has made it mandatory for all PwBD/PwD candidates to carry original disability certificates to examination centres if they wish to avail scribe services or compensatory time.The new rule takes effect from the […]
Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia
MONTREAL: Canada’s wildfires have burned more than 13.6 million acres (5.5 million hectares) this year, an area roughly the size of Croatia, officials said Friday as the country endures one of its most destructive fire seasons. In 2023, Canada’s worst-ever fire season, 42.9 million acres of land were scorched, an extraordinary scale of damage that […]
Why are Edlow and Vaughan calling OPT illegal? Here’s the real story
OPT faces mounting legal and political attacks, putting the future of 200,000 international graduates at risk. In the quietly panicked corridors of international education policy, a storm is gathering around the United States’ Optional Practical Training (OPT) program—and for once, it’s not hyperbole to say that the damage may already be done. The numbers are […]
10 newly released NCERT textbooks for classes 5 and 8: Check the full list here
NCERT releases new textbooks for classes 5th and 8th. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released a new set of textbooks for Classes 5 and 8, aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) 2023. The new textbooks incorporate changes in content […]
NIRF to award mild penalty to institutions for retractions this year, harsh penalty next year
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto In a first, starting this year, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) will award negative scores to higher educational institutions for papers that have been retracted from journals in the last three calendar years and their corresponding citations. “This year, we will award some […]