Sci &Tech

Rain comes down steadily, painting the skies a dull grey and sending a chill breeze wafting through the windows of high-rise buildings. On the street below, water creeps out of cracks and pores. Next to the highway lies a lake but the boundary between water and land has blurred. What was once contained spreads across…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses the gathering at the AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, India, February 19, 2026. Bhawika Chhabra | Reuters OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company “shouldn’t have rushed” its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and outlined revisions to the agreement. Altman shared what he described…

From the lapis-laden trade routes of the Bronze Age, blue travelled east and west, carrying with it power, devotion, and value. By the Kushan period, between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE, ultramarine pigment was extracted from Afghan lapis lazuli through a complex and painstaking process of crushing it carefully and treating it with beeswax…

SpaceX’s Starlink will partner with German telco giant Deutsche Telekom to launch a satellite-based mobile service in 10 European countries, the companies announced on Monday. The service will go live in 2028 and bring mobile communications to areas where network expansion is particularly challenging, including in areas with nature conservation requirements or demanding topography, Deutsche…

A webinar on ‘Constitution Under the Microscope: Federalism, Free Speech and the Indian Republic’ at Future Career Conversations. A webinar on Constitution Under the Microscope: Federalism, Free Speech and the Indian Republic, jointly organised by the SRM Institute of Science and Technology and The Hindu, focused on strained Centre-State ties in many States, the role…

Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models had “elevated errors” on Monday, as the app held its spot as the most popular free app on Apple‘s App Store. Claude’s status website showed “degraded performance” on Claude Opus 4.6, its latest model released last month. In an update…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When you hear “brain-computer interface,” you probably picture surgery, wires and a chip in your head. Now picture something quieter. No implant. No incision. Just sound waves directed at the brain. That is the approach behind a new wave of ultrasound brain-computer interface companies in China. One…

For centuries, the forests of western Himalayas have quietly recorded every wet spring and every failed one. This record can be found in the rings trees form annually. If winter and spring precipitation is good, the trees grow wider rings. When it fails, the rings narrow.And when scientists studied this ancient data, one year stood…

Modern cancer research is closely linked to the study of genes, with a particular focus on variants. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, nearly 20 million new cancer cases were recorded in 2022, with the figure projected to surpass 35 million annually…

Apple introduces iPhone 17e Source: Apple Inc. Apple opened its week of product launches on Monday morning with a refreshed low-cost iPhone and a faster iPad Air, as it begins what looks to be a broader multi-day hardware push. The headline device is the new iPhone 17e, a budget model in the iPhone 17 lineup…