Science

Nawai has been selected as one of 30 finalists in the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Kianoosh Nawai, an eighth-grader at West Virginia Virtual Academy, wanted to explore how technology could help people with disabilities. His project led him to design and build a 3D-printed prosthetic hand that aims to offer a lower-cost…

A medieval castle believed to have disappeared around 150 years ago has turned out to be hiding in plain sight inside a university building in Dublin, with researchers finding that its ancient walls and courtyard survived beneath the later structure.The discovery concerns Roebuck Castle on the Belfield campus of University College Dublin (UCD). The Norman…

Harvard students– Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito– build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds Three Harvard students have built a low-cost infrared headset that can screen athletes for possible concussions in about 60 seconds, bringing objective eye-tracking data from the clinic to the sideline. Their invention, called Rumble…

HYDERABAD: To expand robotic surgeries across govt hospitals, the health department is planning to make three to six months of training in robotic procedures mandatory for postgraduate (PG) medical students.The move is aimed at creating a large pool of uniformly trained surgeons so that robotic surgery is not limited to leading institutions in Hyderabad and…

At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy. Its bright centre is wrapped in sweeping arms, while a broad, dark band of dust cuts across one side of its nucleus, giving it the distinctive appearance that earned it the nickname Black Eye Galaxy. But beneath that familiar spiral shape lies something much…

Canada has recently confirmed the first detection of spotted lanternfly in the country. On September 15, 2026, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed the first detection of SLF in Canada in Windsor, Ontario. Movement restrictions have been placed to prevent the movement of regulated materials, including potentially infested plant materials. Moreover, surrounding areas are…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A robot has assembled a working tabletop laser cavity in less than 30 minutes, handling the precise alignment usually done manually. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) researchers have developed a reconfigurable robotic optics laboratory that can pick up and position mirrors, lenses and other components, fine-tune them with micron-scale precision and even…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A barrier that had blocked migratory fish for decades disappeared in California in 2025, and salmon soon followed the newly opened route. Crews relocated a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) natural-gas pipeline and buried the new section about 20 feet below Alameda Creek near Sunol, then removed the concrete structure that had…

Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils outside of North America, marking the first-ever discovery outside the area. For 150 years, every confirmed bone of the animal came from one place, the Morrison Formation of western US. But recently, Sergio Sanchez Fenollosa and his colleagues found the same anatomical signature in a…

Coastal waters that feed billions of people with food, jobs and recreation are being pushed past their limits by a surge of human-made nitrogen. A new studytitled ‘Coastal Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Silicon Sources: Integrating Land, Sea, and Human Inputs’ led by Washington State University estimates that in about one in four of the planet’s coastal…