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Brain cancer, especially glioblastoma, is characterized by its aggressive nature, with very poor survival rates. Conventional treatments hardly succeed because of the brain’s protective barriers, which easily block the path of drug delivery. However, a breakthrough approach using nasal drops brings about new hope. Nasal drops have been developed by scientists at Washington University School…
Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI (Courtesy: a16z podcast) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has now described the time of launch of ChatGPT has a defining moment for the company. Altman called ChatGPT as the early discovery of scaling laws for language models a ‘scientific windfall’ which shaped the complete strategy for OpenAI. Speaking at a recent podcast…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah meets his deputy DKS amid crisis rumours. NEW DELHI: Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Saturday met chief minister Siddaramaiah at the latter’s residence in Bengaluru. With the leadership tussle in Karnataka seeing dramatic twists and turns by the hour, chief minister Siddaramaiah, following a nudge from the Congress high command, had…
NEW DELHI: Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), billed as Bihar’s newest political alternative, appears to have made little electoral headway according to exit polls for the assembly elections. Most agencies placed the party at zero to a handful of seats, suggesting that the high voter turnout and speculation of a silent shift towards Kishor…
Imagine a world where cavities could be reversed instead of being drilled and filled. That possibility is now closer than ever. According to a 2024 study published in Nature Communications, scientists have developed a glycerol-stabilised calcium phosphate gel capable of repairing early enamel damage by mimicking the tooth’s natural mineralisation process. This discovery represents a…
Cancer remains one of the world’s leading causes of death, with millions of new cases diagnosed annually despite significant therapeutic advances. While immunotherapies have transformed certain cancer treatments, many tumours still evade immune detection, limiting long-term success. Scientists have long sought a universal strategy that could “teach” the immune system to recognise and destroy cancer…
NTPC Ltd has begun drilling India’s first-ever geological carbon dioxide (CO2) storage well at its Pakri Barwadih coal mine in Jharkhand, marking a significant milestone in the country’s carbon capture and storage efforts.The initiative, spearheaded by NTPC’s R&D arm– the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA)– represents a crucial step in advancing India’s Carbon Capture,…
Russia’s successful launch of a nuclear-powered cruise missile may spur nuclear air propulsion research, a long-abandoned Cold War-era projectRussian President Vladimir Putin has just announced the successful test of a new Russian nuclear-capable and nuclear-powered cruise missile, Burevestnik, that is supposed to have limitless range and can evade any known air defence system. If true,…
In what could be a breakthrough treatment, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a groundbreaking “super vaccine” that could one day help the immune system prevent cancer before it even begins. This experimental vaccine uses nanoparticles to deliver tumor-specific signals, that train the body to recognise and destroy cancer cells early –…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently shared a post on X announcing a new breakthrough in quantum algorithms. “Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage,” Pichai wrote in the post, adding it is “13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest supercomputers”. Pichai’s post caught the attention of…
