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 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...

New Delhi: India's first indigenously-designed 7-nanometer computer processor 'Shakti' is expected to be ready by 2028, which can be produced at chip plant locally in future, the IIT Madras-based team informed Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Saturday. A video posted by minister's social media account shows...

Balasore: Siddhartha Pati, a scientist from Balasore, has earned a patent for developing an eco-friendly process to extract chitosan — a biodegradable compound used in pharmaceutical industry— from discarded shrimp shells, turning marine waste into valuable bioproducts. Pati’s startup, aligned with the government’s Circular Economy...

New York: Meta is adding parental controls for kids' interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots — including the ability to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters altogether — beginning early next year. But parents won't be able to turn off Meta's AI assistant, which Meta...

New Delhi: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba) Friday announced its plan to invest 55 billion yen (around Rs 3,232 crore) by FY2027, aimed at doubling output capacity at its key facilities in Japan and India. Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba) has...

Bhubaneswar: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar and Simulator Development Division (SDD) of the Indian Army have signed an MoU to collaborate on advanced research, training, and innovation in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and other emerging technologies. The MoU...

Ranchi: ISRO chairman V Narayanan Wednesday, said the space agency has set a target of landing Indians on the Moon by 2040, while its maiden human spaceflight mission 'Gaganyaan' is on track for launch in 2027. Narayanan said a slew of ambitious space projects and...

Mumbai: Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman has joined hands with Google Cloud for his new project Secret Mountain, a metahuman digital avatar band that blends artificial intelligence, music and storytelling to create a next-generation entertainment experience. Under the collaboration, Google Cloud's advanced AI models and...