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Two out of three child deaths due to malnutrition: report

6 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Analysis of health data finds that Assam, Bihar, Rajasthan and U.P. are the most affected States..

Amazon’s Alexa now speaks Hindi, Hinglish

8 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

More local languages may be added..

My home, their art, all digital

19 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

This online gallery helps you satisfy your craving for art from artists such as Ramesh Pachpande, Arpita Basu or Phan Thu Trangeven, even before making an investment..

Transgenic mosquitoes transfer genes to native mosquito species

23 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

A.aegypti mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus...

Instruments, food, fabric and more: Bamboo as many things

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Environment

The cultural extravaganza to celebrate World Bamboo Day will also showcase the versatile plant material at Lalbagh on September 18..

New algorithms can help identify cyber-bullies on Twitter, say scientists

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Technology

The algorithms were able to identify abusive users on Twitter with 90% accuracy, researchers said..

Travel through time with Lego Jurassic World and Superhot

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

A zany recreation of Jurassic World as told by Lego, and action-puzzle hybrid Superhot offer adrenaline rushes..

The boy who met a treehopper

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

City-based Adit Jeyan’s photo of the insect was featured in the Observation Of The Week category of iNaturalist, a popular portal for naturalists..

So what is a superfood really?

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

If you’ve nodded your way through several conversations where people gush about the latest nut or berry, and wondered what all the fuss was about, here’s a primer for you..

400 million Facebook users' phone numbers exposed

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the social media giant, U.S. media..

Climate change can reduce banana yield in India, study finds

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Global warming in the last about 60 years had helped increase banana yield at annual rate of 0.024 tonnes per hectare translating to an average increa..

IIT Madras finds an eco-friendly way to degrade plastics

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The strategy can degrade several varieties of plastic - Teflon, polyethylene, polypropylene..

IISER Pune team fabricates a viable alternative to silicon diodes

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The device shows high electrical conductivity and also high current rectification ratio..

Did you spot the Ganesha train at Hyderabad’s Tank Bund?

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Thursday’s immersion at Tank Bund saw something a little different — a train of small idols, each with a social media sign..

There was once an idyllic village

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Starting as a whatsapp group of concerned villagers, Siruvani Vizhuthugal is now cleaning water bodies and replanting native trees at Madvarayapuram on the foothills of the Western Ghats..

River Sissar has run wild. Is the Trans-Arunachal Highway to blame?

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The careless dumping of debris has changed the river’s course, flooding paddy fields and orchards in Dambuk..

Watch | India's new-age Instagram calligraphers

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

These artists are capitalising on the power of platforms like Instagram to help netizens discover the power of handwriting..

Google celebrates Hans Christian Joachim Gram

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The man who discovered the Gram staining method..

NATGRID wants to link social media accounts to central database

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Internet

The ambitious National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) project wants to link social media accounts to the huge database of records related to immigration..

Chasing butterflies in Chennai

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

Though it is not peak butterfly season, Adyar Poonga still bustles with the bright winged species. Read this, then visit..

The case of the butterfly with the false head

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The Common Silverline employs this technique as a decoy, to keep itself from becoming prey..

Russia scraps robot after odyssey

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Fedor not ready to replace astronauts on long and risky space walks, says official..

Cryodrakon boreas, the largest flying animal was a plane-sized reptile: study

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

It has a wingspan of 10 m and weighs 250 kg...

Meet the 24-year-old teaching Chennai to love nature

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

M Yuvan has spent nearly half his life discovering the joys of the wild. A look at how he shares his findings with others through music, books and rambles in the woods..

Apple reveals triple-camera iPhone; $5 monthly streaming TV undercuts Disney

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Buyers of an iPhone, iPad or Mac will get a free year of streaming TV, potentially drawing hundreds of millions of viewers to the service...

Two new species of ginger discovered from Nagaland

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Southeast Asia is a centre of diversity for the genus; several species have been found in northeast India..

Everyman’s guide to burnout

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

On the heels of the World Health Organization declaring it an occupational phenomenon, it’s time to take it seriously..

Apple expected to unveil iPhones echoing last year’s models

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

iPhone shipments are down 25% so far this year, according to the research firm IDC, putting more pressure on Apple to generate revenue from services such as music streaming, product repairs, revenue sharing from apps and ad commissions from making Google the default search engine...

Lander ‘tilted’ not broken, says ISRO

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

The lander is there as a single piece, in a tilted position, says ISRO..

India to raise target for restoring degraded land: PM Modi

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Speaking at the 14th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Narendra Modi said between 2015 and 2017, India’s tree and forest cover increased by 0.8 million hectares..

Data: Moon lander missions have low success rates

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

India’s Chandrayaan-2 ‘Vikram’ lander failed to touch base with the moon. Difficulties in landing missions have been evident in the fact that the succ..

Early environmental exposures affect blood pressure in children: Study

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

Some of the factors are air pollution, natural spaces, noise levels, and chemicals in environment..

Nilgiri tahr’s population up 27% in three years in TN

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Numbers in Mukurthi National Park have risen from 568 in 2018 to 612 this year..

Chandrayaan-2: A rapid dive to 15 minutes of terror

10 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

At 1.38 a.m. on September 7, Vikram, recently separated from the orbiting Chandrayaan-2 parent craft, began its much awaited descent to the moon as pl..

After Vikram lander debacle, ISRO shifts focus to Chandrayaan 2’s orbiter

10 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

ISRO chairman K. Sivan said that the orbiter’s life is now 7.5 years instead of the earlier one year as its fuel has been used economically...

Landers are always on slippery slope

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Only on April 11, Beresheet, an Israeli private moon mission, crashed on the moon..

Seller of million-euro pigeon keen on raising new champions

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Joel Verschoot spends 10 hours a day tending to birds..

Parts of Wikipedia offline after ‘malicious’ attack

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Teams are working to restore access..

IACS fabricates hydrogels with tunable bactericidal activities

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The hydrogel reduces the cell size of the E. coli and disrupts its cell membrane..

IAF completes first level of selecting astronauts for Gaganyaan mission from its test pilots pool

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Air Force sources said 25 test pilots were part of the initial selection process..

A wild, wild road

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The first wildlife underpasses built under NH 44 could help reduce roadkill on the Kanha-Pench corridor dramatically. That now leaves us with 55,000 km of roads through forests to tackle..

Cabinet decides to ban e-cigarettes

8 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

The Union Cabinet has given the approval to ban e-cigarettes in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in New Delhi on Wednesday.The pr..

The Indian Lily Moth: The not-so-boring butterfly

12 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Not quite. The Indian Lily Moth is among the prettiest insects around us..

Row over ‘suspension’ of JSP activists’ Twitter accounts

22 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Hand of A.P., TS govts. alleged..

A Nobel museum in Mohali

23 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

In India for the Nobel Prize Series 2019, Laura Sprechmann, Nobel Media AB CEO, hopes to inspire a generation of bright minds..

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to urge climate action on Capitol Hill

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Environment

The events are intended to drum up support ahead of a global climate strike on Friday..

Smarter ways to avoid getting fined

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Technology

The meme-filled panic around the traffic fine hikes now has a digital solution..

Facebook to stop news headline changes from advertisers

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The leading social network confirmed the internal effort in the face of concerns over a BBC headline altered in an ad to evidently change the tone of an article about British government spending on education...

A Chennai-built solar car is headed to Australia

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

This team of 15 inventors has built a car that runs on solar power. And now they are building another, for a global challenge Down Under..

An ‘Angel’ that protects social media users from online toxicity

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Project Angel of IIIT-Hyderabad will trawl social media and scrape words akin to bullying, and protect users from it..

Climate protesters in Germany tell carmakers 'the party is over'

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

As many as 25,000, including 18,000 cyclists, took part in a march in front of Frankfurt's IAA car show, organisers say..

Two asteroids flying by Earth pose no risk: NASA

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

NASA has said that the pair of asteroids flying by Earth this weekend could pose a threat to our planet.“These asteroids have been well observed and..

Chip ‘fingerprint’ technology for secure transactions

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

Cloning the electronic fingerprint is not easy..

Bacterial strain from IIT-Bombay soil removes pesticide

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The bacterium uses carbaryl for its growth..

Meet India’s spoof PM of an Alt Sarkar on Twitter

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

This alternative government on Twitter is taking their job very seriously..

Majority of snakes are non-poisonous: expert

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

Yogi Vemana University conducts awareness show..

How families are making zero-waste parenting a way of life

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

A growing tribe of eco-conscious parents are leaving a smaller carbon footprint by switching to sustainable alternatives for their kids..

Google doodle celebrates Hans Christian Joachim Gram

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

The man who discovered the Gram staining method..

3D printed titanium implant used on bone cancer patient for first time claims surgeon

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

But for the special efforts of the NRI Hospital Bone Cancer wing, a 45-year-old bone cancer woman patient (name withheld) would have become permanentl..

Science Ministry to go on a Hindi Wikipedia blitz

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

Artificial Intelligence will be used...

Get battle-ready with Gears 5 and Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

This week, we see the sixth instalment of Gears of War and the latest expansion of Monster Hunter World..

Water found for first time on potentially habitable planet, says astronomers

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

K2-18b is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System known to have both water and temperatures that could be potentially habitable..

Centre to bring ordinance to ban e-cigarettes in country

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Tobacco industry questions move, calls it ‘draconian’..

California passes Bill that will reshape gig economy

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

It will enhance contract workers’ rights..

This car has a garden on its rooftop

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The 16 sq ft garden patch perched atop advocate K Suresh’s purple car attracts much attention..

Apple Event 2019 Live: iPhone 11 priced at $699, iPhone 11 Pro at $999 and iPhone Pro Max at $1099

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Apple Arcade which will feature 100,000 groundbreaking games will be the world's first subscription service for mobile, desktop, and living room...

ISRO keeps up bid to link with moon lander Vikram

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The 1.4-tonne lander has been lying silent on the moon’s surface since the early hours of Saturday...

Watch | Chandrayaan's Vikram lander: what we know so far

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The Chandrayaan-2 mission was aimed at the Vikram module making a soft landing on the moon’s uncharted south pole...

Tamil Nadu ranks lowest in coverage of iodised salt

8 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

First of its kind survey finds national average for household coverage is 76.3%...

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

The economic historian believes technology is neither the solution to everything nor a dystopian nightmare..

How to get rid of body odour?

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

How to get rid of body odour without the chemicals in anti-perspirants..

When you know you’ve had enough

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

The different cases of burnouts in office..

The story of our native honeybees

9 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

Rajani Mani’s film Colonies in Conflict investigates the underlying reason for the mass depletion of honey bees and explores the story of those who are working to reverse this..

Moon lander Vikram may not spring back to life, say space experts

10 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

They believe that the moon lander may have crash-landed on the lunar surface and the impact shock may have damaged the module beyond repair..

Nation’s support, PM Modi’s address boosted our morale, says ISRO chief Sivan

10 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

“We are extremely happy [with PM’s address as well as nation rallying behind ISRO]. It has boosted the morale of our people,” Mr. Sivan told PTI...

Families refuse to leave villages along Narmada

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

As water level continues to rise in the Sardar Sarovar Dam, swelling backwaters have submerged several settlements..

From ‘all is not lost’ to ‘a broken dream’: foreign media’s mixed reactions to Chandrayaan 2

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The lander lost communication with ground stations during its final descent...

After Vikram lander debacle, ISRO shifts focus to Chandryaan 2’s orbiter

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

ISRO chairman K. Sivan said that the orbiter’s life is now 7.5 years instead of the earlier one year as its fuel has been used economically...

Get ready for 3D-printed cookies

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

IIFPT, Thanjavur, scientists have 3D-printed a nutritious snack using millets, green gram, fried gram and ajwain seeds..

How simple cells organise into varied communities

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Yeast cells grew into groups with different metabolism, which were spatially organised..

Meet God’s social media manager, the man behind @TheTweetOfGod

11 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Twitter’s resident Jehovah on his incompetent earthly assistant David Javerbaum, moving into the Indian God market and why satire is a small price to pay for a perfect world..

Amazon Bestseller: Stocks to Riches: Insights on Investor Behaviour - Parag Parikh

2 years ago

Shopping / Amazon/ Financial Books

Investing in the stock market is challenging, as the market dynamics are unpredictable. Analysts, brokers and retails investors realize to their dismay that "investments do well, but investors don't do well". What could be the reasons behind this? What goes on in an investor's mind? What makes a stock market bubble? How does it burst? How does one find the right strategy of investing? Intrigued by these pertinent questions, Parag Parikh, a seasoned broker and expert, took up this daunting task of understanding and demystifying investing in the stock market. Stocks to Riches is a distillate of his experience. It simplifies investing in stocks and provides key perspectives for a lay investor venturing into the market. At the end of the day, Stocks to Riches helps the retail investor make money by following the time-tested and proven guidelines provided in the book. A must read for brokers, analysts and retail investors...

E-cigarettes: How dangerous is vaping? The science remains hazy

8 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

Is vaping dangerous? Can it help smokers to quit?..

ISRO thanks all Indians for support after it lost contact with Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander

14 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

ISRO got support from the entire nation, despite it losing communication with the lander ‘Vikram’ ahead of the touchdown on September 7..

Amazon Bestseller: The Little Book of Value Investing - Christopher H. Browne

2 years ago

Shopping / Amazon/ Financial Books

There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world. "If you are a value investor by temperament, you will (or should) find a lot that is persuasive in what Christopher Browne has to say about the craft of value investing in a delightful new book out this autumn...It is nicely written and utterly persuasive if long-term investment success is what you are after and your temperament is equipped to handle the psychological pressures of making non-consensus investments."..

Watch | All about black holes

22 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

A latest study showed that when a black hole is birthed, it emits gravitational waves at characteristic tones just like a struck bell..

Amazon Bestseller: Black Box Thinking: Psychology - Matthew Syed

2 years ago

Shopping / Amazon/ Financial Books

What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google? What links Dave Braisford's Team Sky and the aviation industry? What is the connection between the inventor James Dyson and the footballer David Beckham? They are all Black Box Thinkers. Whether developing a new product, honing a core skill or just trying to get a critical decision right, Black Box Thinkers aren't afraid to face up to mistakes. In fact, they see failure as the very best way to learn. Rather than denying their mistakes, blaming others or attempting to spin their way out of trouble, these institutions and individuals interrogate errors as part of their future strategy for success. How many of us, hand on heart, can say that we have such a healthy relationship with failure? Learning from failure has the status of a cliché, but this book reveals the astonishing story behind the most powerful method of learning known to mankind and reveals the arsenal of techniques wielded by some of the world's most innovative organizat..

Every minute 5 patients die due to unsafe care, deaths can be prevented: WHO

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Health

Four out of every 10 patients are harmed during primary and ambulatory healthcare, WHO says..

Amazon Bestseller: My Warren Buffett Bible - Robert L. Bloch

2 years ago

Shopping / Amazon/ Financial Books

The "Sage of Omaha", Warren Buffett, is well-known for his simple but invaluable principles regarding investing and finances and countless businessmen and people looking to be smarter with their money have turned to Buffett for his advice. One of those people is Robert Bloch, son of the cofounder of the tax preparation company H & R Block. My Warren Buffett Bible contains nearly three hundred quotes that Bloch has personally found to be indispensable to financial success. With the written blessing of Buffett himself, Bloch has selected the best of Buffett, wisdom that will guide you to becoming the most disciplined and rational long-term investor you can be...

Facebook, Instagram users in India can now add music to ‘Stories’

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Music products on Facebook and Instagram are now available in over 55 countries..

Drones of the sea, robotic bartenders and exoskeleton technology: highlights from 2019 Taobao Maker Festival

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The Taobao Maker Festival is organised every year by the Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, China, and features the latest in Next-Gen development..

Telangana’s first dengue death confirmed

yesterday

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Deceased was a resident of Qutbullapur..

Watch: What is World Ozone Day?

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

Commonly known as the ‘World Ozone Day’, September 16 commemorates the Montreal Protocol that was signed on this date by 24 UN member nations in 1987,..