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How is the immune system kept in check? | Explained

What did the three Medicine Nobel awardees discover and why is it important? How do regulatory T cells function? How does their work on regulatory T cells lay the ground for a new field of research leading to new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases?

12 Oct 2025 2:37 am
Elon Musk settles ex-Twitter executives lawsuitover unpaid severance | Explained

Four senior executives at Twitter accused billionaire Elon Musk of working to take revenge on them after he was made to buy the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022

11 Oct 2025 12:22 pm
Samsungs premium phones sales grow 40% while smart TV sales doubled during festive season

The South Korean electronics major said that smartphone growth was led by its Galaxy AI-powered portfolio of Z Fold 7 foldable smartphone, Galaxy S25 series as well as Galaxy S24 series

11 Oct 2025 11:55 am
Activision officials must face claims over Microsoft takeover, judge rules

Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Chancery Court said on Thursday the shareholders in the proposed class action can pursue their core claim that Kotick and other Activision directors breached their fiduciary duties

11 Oct 2025 10:35 am
Global financial watchdogs to ramp up monitoring of AI

Banks have been broadly optimistic that AI will make them more productive, but regulators around the world have expressed concerns about its potential impact on financial stability

11 Oct 2025 10:12 am
OpenAI, Sur Energy weigh $25 billion Argentina data center project

The project would involve a large-scale facility with a capacity of up to 500 megawatts to support advanced artificial intelligence computing, according to a government statement

11 Oct 2025 9:52 am
Bitcoin extends decline to $104,782 as Trump escalates U.S.-China trade war

Trump on Friday said he was raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. to 100% and imposing export controls on any and all critical software in a reprisal to recently announced export limits by China on rare earth minerals critical to tech and other manufacturing

11 Oct 2025 9:46 am
Sawalkote hydropower project on Chenab gets fresh environmental clearance

The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and the plan to utilise the full potential of the eastern Indus rivers added momentum to the approval process for the 1856 MW project, a senior official told The Hindu

10 Oct 2025 10:56 pm
Why do some sounds hurt?

Understanding why certain small sounds or noises irritate and annoy us in our everyday life!

10 Oct 2025 4:44 pm
AWS unveils Quick Suiteagentic AI platform for enterprises

The suite of services is similar to Googles Gemini Enterprise targeted at daily business users which was also unveiled on the same day

10 Oct 2025 1:34 pm
The iPhone Air: A bold reimagining of the iPhone

Apples engineering lets you easily grab the phone from any surface without slippage, making the iPhone Air feel like youre holding nothing but a screen

10 Oct 2025 11:28 am
Meta expands support for dubbing on Instagram reels to Hindi

The feature had been expanded in August for bilingual speakers in English and Spanish - the feature has now added Hindi and Portuguese

10 Oct 2025 10:55 am
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2 billion in funding, boosts valuation to $8 billion

The funding round, led by Nvidia, saw participation from prominent investors, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Citi, and Donald Trump Jr.-backed private equity firm 1789 Capital, as well as existing investors Lightspeed and Sequoia

10 Oct 2025 9:55 am
Tesla hit with probe after crashes involving a self-driving feature that Musk has boasted about

Federal regulators have opened yet another investigation into Teslas so-called full-self driving technology after dozens of dangerous incidents

10 Oct 2025 9:49 am
Google says 'likely over 100' affected by Oracle-linked hacking campaign

Google, a unit of Alphabet, said in a statement that mass amounts of customer data were stolen in an operation it said may have begun as early as three months ago

10 Oct 2025 9:49 am
India's TCS beats quarterly revenue estimates, sees better growth in second-half

The results boosted optimism around the country's $283 billion IT sector, which has been dealing with cautious client spending amid economic uncertainties, especially in North America, its largest market

10 Oct 2025 9:43 am
Lok Sabha Speaker urges ethical adoption of AI to bridge the digital divide

Om Birla said that cooperation and knowledge-sharing can make technology a bridge rather than a barrier

9 Oct 2025 10:16 pm
Remembering Jane Goodall, who should have got the Nobel Peace Prize

The enduring legacy of a primatologist who worked equally hard for wild animals and a climate-safe world

9 Oct 2025 6:16 pm
Google rolls out Search Live feature in India, expands AI Mode to seven local languages

Google will also be expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages including Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu

9 Oct 2025 2:28 pm
JBL launches Tour One M3 premium headphones in India: Price, features and availability

JBL launched the Tour One M3 premium headphones in India this week

9 Oct 2025 1:33 pm
Microsoft taps Harvard for Copilot health queries as OpenAI reliance eases: Report

In an interview with the Journal, Dominic King, vice president of health at Microsoft AI, said that the company's aim is for Copilot to serve answers that are more in line with the information users might get from a medical practitioner

9 Oct 2025 10:26 am
SoftBank buys $5.4 billion robotics firm to advance 'physical AI'

ABB Robotics specialises in industrial robots, such as large robotic arms that can make precise movements in factories

9 Oct 2025 10:24 am
UK's Revolut to launch India payments platform, eyes 20 million customers by 2030

Revolut will let Indian users make domestic and international payments via its tie-ups with the Unified Payments Interface and Visa, starting with 350,000 waitlisted customers later this year before opening to others

9 Oct 2025 10:07 am
Cisco rolls out chip designed to connect AI data centers over vast distances

The P200 chip, as Cisco calls it, will compete against rival offerings from Broadcom

9 Oct 2025 10:02 am
Most companies suffer some risk-related financial loss deploying AI, EY survey shows

Despite that, the firms polled were still optimistic that AI adoption would ultimately yield significant benefits, EY said

9 Oct 2025 9:53 am
From refugee to Nobel: Yaghi hails sciences equalising force

I grew up in a very humble home. We were a dozen of us in one small room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to raise, Prof. Yaghi told the Nobel Foundation in an interview

8 Oct 2025 8:56 pm
OpenAI unveils AgentKit to build and deploy AI agents easily

OpenAI had also unveiled other features including the ability to access apps within ChatGPT

8 Oct 2025 12:02 pm
Printing towards progress: How the printing press changed society

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, it brought more than just technological innovation it changed society on a global scale. Its amazing what technology is capable of these days, but the development that happened centuries ago is no exaggeration.

8 Oct 2025 10:59 am
Toyota explores small drone system for off-road vehicle use

The Japanese automaker said that the potential system aims to boost situational awareness in places where it is unsafe to exit the vehicle

8 Oct 2025 10:18 am
How linguists figured Hindi, Greek, English all come from a single ancient language

Linguists have developed methods to rebuild aspects of this languages structure, and refer to it using the label Proto-Indo-European

8 Oct 2025 10:17 am
By reusing old genes, bats became the only mammals able to fly

Scientists have long wondered how bats keep a sheet of skin between their fingers. In other mammals, this sheet disappears before birth in a process where the cells die on purpose, called apoptosis. One leading hypothesis is that bats evolved flight by suppressing this interdigital cell death

8 Oct 2025 5:30 am
How do woodpeckers protect their brains?

Knock! Knock! Whos there? A woodpecker with a skull stronger than Superman. Are you sure about that? Lets dive into the secret behind how woodpeckers can constantly hit their heads against tree-wood without sustaining any brain injury.

7 Oct 2025 7:07 pm
What are nightshades?

Meet the family of flowering plants, where toxicity is the core aspect of the relationship

7 Oct 2025 7:03 pm
Its popping: Why is bubble wrap so satisfying?

You receive a package from Amazon. It could be a new phone, a new book, or anything for that matter. But, the package can step aside for all we care, we are here to trigger our happy receptors with the most wonderful thing that comes with it: bubble wrap!

7 Oct 2025 6:56 pm
Double the positivity: How are double rainbows formed?

Throughout history, rainbows have been considered a sign of a good omen that the storm has passed and better days are ahead. And when theres double the rainbows theres double the luck. Double rainbows are a rarity, and how they are formed is just as fascinating.

7 Oct 2025 6:32 pm
What is Terraforming?

Ever heard of the movie The Martian, starring Matt Damon? The astronaut, Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and must use his skills of improvisation to survive. This example provides a sneak peek into terraforming. Space agencies and research groups have been working to turn the same planet into a habitable land where every human inhabitant becomes a martian.

7 Oct 2025 6:31 pm
Spin Science: Explaining the Magnus effect

Have you ever wondered the secret to Messis curved free kick? Or any of our spin bowlers with their masterly bowling? It may look like magic, but its actually something physics calls the Magnus effect. From cricket pitches to football stadiums, this phenomenon plays an important role in gameplay and winning. With that being said, lets take a dive into the science of spin.

7 Oct 2025 6:25 pm
Why do athletes race in an anti-clockwise direction?

What difference would the direction make? When you run in a circle, you run in all four directions. But believe it or not, there is an explanation for this.

7 Oct 2025 6:16 pm
Not your everyday forecast: Odd weather you wont believe is real

Albert Einstein once said, We still do not know one thousandth of one per cent of what nature has revealed to us. And a lot of it is stranger than fiction. Sometimes, Mother Nature can be a complete weirdo, and she can do extraordinary things for us. From rainbows in the night sky to ice in perfect circles, the list goes on and on.

7 Oct 2025 5:30 pm
2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three US scientists for discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis are being awarded the Physics Nobel for 2025.

7 Oct 2025 3:20 pm
Qualcomm fights $647 million UK lawsuit over smartphone chip royalties

The group alleges Qualcomm made the manufacturers pay inflated royalties even if its chips are not used in a device under a worldwide so-called no licence, no chips policy

7 Oct 2025 10:25 am
7 Oct 2025 8:15 am
How to use Perplexitys Comet browser to complete online tasks

Perplexity views Comet as a foundational platform rather than a niche, high-price offering. And now, by giving it to more users, for free, it is making its foundation firm and scalable. The timing and structure signal confidence in scale and usage over margin per user

7 Oct 2025 8:00 am
Conclave in November to showcase evolution of Indian science

It is not a mere upgrade of the traditional Indian Science Congress, says Science Minister Jitendra Singh

6 Oct 2025 10:19 pm
Operation Sindoor demonstrated Indian Armys AI-driven capabilities, says Lt. General Rajiv Sahni

AI has become a force multiplier for the Army with enhanced surveillance, intelligence, and precision targeting, says the senior Army officer who was Direct General of Information Systems (DGIS) during the military operation against Pakistan

6 Oct 2025 10:00 pm
What happens to your financial data as OpenAI acquires Roi?

In its wind-down plan, Roi has outlined specific steps for users regarding their personal information

6 Oct 2025 2:24 pm
Data centres in space? Jeff Bezos says it's possible

Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles

6 Oct 2025 9:50 am
How is AI transforming teaching and learning practices in Indian classrooms?

ChatGPT, NVIDIA, and other global business giants are investing heavily in AI in India, with the India AI Mission aiming to build an ecosystem for trusted and inclusive AI; teachers and students use AI tools but ethical dilemmas and the digital divide challenge meaningful classroom interaction

6 Oct 2025 8:30 am