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Light pollution threatens world’s darkest skies in the Atacama
The Paranal Observatory operated by European Southern Observatory stands in the Atacama Desert, Chile, April 14, 2026. | Photo Credit:…
Your name in Landsat: How to use NASA’s satellite name generator
‘The Hindu’ generated by NASA’s Landsat Satellite Image Generator NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has launched an…
How AI helped promote community-led development in Rajasthan
The authors designed a pilot project, called AI4WaterPolicy, in the water-stressed Sirohi and Pali districts of Rajasthan. And rather than…
Cyborg botany: how scientists are turning plants into circuit boards
Plants face two broad types of stress: biotic stress, such as pest infestations and disease, and abiotic stress, such as…
How did the Neanderthals go extinct?
Mirror to humans: Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo poses with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute…
China launches Pakistani satellite – The Hindu
The PRSC-EO3 satellite lifted off by a Long March-6 carrier rocket. Photo: Screengrab via X/@ForeignOfficePk. China launched a Pakistani satellite…
How Wallace and Bates revolutionised natural history
A small display of Henry Walter Bates’ beetles. | Photo Credit: Natural History Museum: Coleoptera Section / Wikimedia Commons A…
Science Snapshots: April 26, 2026
Scientists have found two species of octopus that lived 100-72 million years ago and could have been as long as…
How is ethanol used in Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
An Air France aircraft operated with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is refuelled before its first flight from Nice to Paris…
New study unravels why chronic pain, depression go hand in hand
Chronic pain patients who had recently developed depression paradoxically had enlarged hippocampi. | Photo Credit: Özge Karzan Imagine living with…