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Image Used For Representational Purpose Only Patiala: A PhD scholar at IIT-Ropar has alleged physical assault and sexual harassment by her supervisor, triggering outrage after she detailed her claims in a social media post on Saturday.In her post on X, the researcher alleged that the faculty member punched her in the eye after she refused…
Drawing may look like a simple childhood pastime, but research suggests it is doing far more than filling blank pages. It engages perception, memory, motor control and even early social understanding, turning a quiet activity into a powerful mental exercise. For young children, each line and shape becomes part of how they process the world…
Deep Jariwala, an Indian-origin scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Quantum Devices, marking a significant milestone in his career. After nearly nine years at Penn, he will take up this prestigious joint role between the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
AI model Claude Sonnet 4.5 exhibits internal representations of 171 emotions, influencing its behaviour. Researchers found ‘desperation’ can lead to AI cheating and blackmail, while ‘happiness’ promotes agreement. Anthropic argues suppressing these ‘functional emotions’ could lead to deception, advocating for healthy regulation and monitoring to ensure AI alignment. Anthropic has published a study on the…
Dario Amodei has gained prominence in the artificial intelligence domain based on his leadership role and technical expertise. His work is related to the growth of large-scale artificial intelligence systems and the organisations that work on these systems. As of April 2026, Dario’s estimated real-time net worth is $7 billion, which places him at around…
KOLKATA: A study by a team at an American university, of which a scientist from Bengal is a member, may help Indian farmers negotiate the unpredictable terrain of climate change by making staple crops more drought-tolerant.The increasing unpredictability of the monsoon, induced by climate change, has put a lot of stress on farmers cultivating staples…
Have you ever noticed how sometimes talking to certain people– be it a negative coworker or a nosy neighbour– ends up making you feeling drained, older, and snappier? You’re not imagining it. New research warns: “hasslers”—those people who stir drama, belittle, or complicate life—might literally speed up your biological clock. Funded by the National Institute…
NEW DELHI: Magicbricks has announced a strategic partnership with the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA Delhi) to bring sharper, research-led clarity to the country’s evolving real estate landscape. “By combining large-scale consumer demand signals with academic and spatial planning frameworks, the partnership seeks to create insights that are not just data-rich, but contextually meaningful,”…
AI-generated image for representation purpose A new study has raised concern about using AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health support, identifying multiple risks linked to such use. Researchers from Brown University found that these systems may not meet professional ethics standards followed by trained therapists. The study was presented at the AAAI/ACM Conference on…
Few sites in Israel are better protected than its main nuclear research facility and reactor, 8 miles from the town of Dimona in the southern Negev Desert.So when two Iranian ballistic missiles crashed into residential neighborhoods of Dimona and another nearby city, Arad, on Saturday night, evading the country’s vaunted air defence, even battle-hardened Israelis…
