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New Delhi: A team of Singaporean researchers has identified a mechanism where mosquito saliva can help boost the human body's immune response during chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection. The research, published in Nature Communications, showed that sialokinin -- a bioactive peptide in Aedes mosquito saliva --...

 New Delhi: In a significant milestone for environmental conservation efforts, India has secured the ninth rank globally in forest area in 2025, up from the 10th position in 2020, said Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav Wednesday. The country has also...

Mumbai: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s total compensation for the financial year 2024–2025 has risen to $96.5 million -- his highest since taking charge of the company more than a decade ago. The sharp increase reflects Microsoft’s major progress in artificial intelligence (AI) under his leadership....

Women experiencing earlier menopause can affect heart health, and can together affect brain and cognitive performance, according to a study.

 Researchers at Nagaland University identified a powerful therapeutic agent that can significantly enable wound healing in diabetes patients.

London: Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms....

New Delhi: Amazon Web Services is facing a major outage Monday that has affected online services globally, including AI platforms, e-commerce platforms, popular websites and online games. Access to Amazon's virtual assistant technology Alexa, the social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, the AI platform...

 The breakthrough mRNA vaccine that enabled the world to fight Covid-19 may also be used to fight cancers of the lung or skin.

Beijing: China Sunday launched a Pakistani remote sensing satellite along with two of its own onboard a single rocket, further deepening space cooperation between the two all-weather allies. A Lijian-1 Y8 carrier rocket carrying three satellites -- Pakistan remote-sensing satellite (PRSS-2), AIRSAT 03 and 04...

Bengaluru: In a landmark scientific breakthrough, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that its lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-2 has made the first-ever observation of the effects of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) from the Sun on the Moon’s exosphere. The observation was made using the Chandra’s...