Karnataka NEET PG 2026: KEA extends option entry deadline until November 3, issues fee-related advisory

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KEA PG medical counselling 2026: Option entry deadline extended; candidates alerted about college fee changes The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has extended the deadline for entering options for admission to postgraduate medical courses under Karnataka NEET PG counselling 2026. Candidates participating in the admission process can now submit their course and college preferences until 12 […]

IP University PhD admission 2026-27: Applications open for winter session, check eligibility and last date

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GGSIPU PhD admissions open for winter session: Check available subjects, application deadline and fellowship details Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), Delhi, has started the admission process for its PhD programme for the winter session of 2026-27. The university invited online applications on November 2, 2026, across multiple academic disciplines, including engineering, management, law, sciences, […]

The Milky Way grew by devouring galaxies, leaving a trail of ghost stars

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from ‘Planck’, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. The towers of fiery colors are actually dust in the galaxy and beyond that has been polarised. | Photo Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech There have always been stories about them. Australian Aboriginal tales tell […]

New technique uses light to spot deepfakes in seconds

U.S. President Donald Trump has often been the subject of deepfake images and videos. | Photo Credit: Pau Casals/Unsplash Many deepfake videos are easy to spot — the eyes move in strange ways, there’s an extra finger on a hand or the light is weirdly distributed — but many are just as hard, if not […]

How smoking sets the stage for lung cancer, glimpsed in new study

For representative purposes | Photo Credit: Getty Images Na Wang, Raksha Padaki, Sara-Jayne Thursby and Michelle Vaz, ‘Chronic Cigarette Smoke Exposure Induces Distinct Stem Cell States Driving Genetic Driver-specific Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Subtypes’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 123, Issue No. 42, October 5, 2026 Oncologists have long wrestled with a […]

A vaccine can look normal even after freezing; four first-year students develop a $5 electricity-free vaccine tracker, winning $9,400 for an innovation that could help protect children

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Winning team Kalyb. (Photo: Imperial) Four first-year university students have developed a low-cost device that could help health workers identify vaccines damaged during transportation, addressing a problem that can undermine immunisation programmes in regions with limited cold-chain infrastructure. The electricity-free gadget, which costs approximately $5 to make, records how many times a vaccine shipment has […]

Chennai, Tiruvallur schools closed today as Cyclone Murasu brings heavy rain alert

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Chennai, Tiruvallur schools closed today as Cyclone Murasu brings heavy rain alert Schools in Chennai and Tiruvallur will remain closed today, November 2, 2026, following a warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The weather department has forecast intense rainfall in parts of Tamil Nadu over the next […]