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49 stories for “Science & Technology” · March 2026
Clear filtersScientists have discovered "Dark Oxygen" around 4,000 metres below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, where no sunlight reaches.The term refers to oxygen found in deep-sea regions without sunlight.The find was made in the...
Scientists have found evidence of the earliest animals on Earth in rocks about 541 million years old.Researchers detected chemical fossils known as steranes in these ancient rocks.The steranes indicate that sea sponges (...
The Government of India has notified the country's first standards covering cloud computing, data centre performance and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI).The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) issued them under the Bur...
Scientists have identified QT45, a self-copying RNA molecule, adding weight to the idea that RNA may have been the first genetic material on Earth.QT45 is just 45 nucleotides long and can replicate itself under special c...
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has carried out a successful test of the drogue parachute developed for Gaganyaan, India's human spaceflight programme. A drogue parachute is a small parachute dep...
Scientists at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir, have developed two new early-maturing wheat varieties for the rice-wheat cropping system in Kashmir. They suit mid-altitude areas...
Goa is hosting the fourth edition of the World Ocean Science Congress 2026 at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Panaji. The congress focuses on ocean health, climate resilience and a sustainable blue econom...
Micron Technology has begun operations at India's first advanced memory Assembly, Testing, Marking and Packaging (ATMP) facility at Sanand in Gujarat. The plant houses the world's largest semiconductor clean room with a...
The Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), under the Department of Science and Technology, has developed a new biosurfactant using ghee. It was produced with the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus...
The IndiaAI Mission and Business Sweden signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to strengthen cooperation in Artificial Intelligence and digital technologies, and to encourage trade, innovation and joint investment. Under the...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has released new cybersecurity guidelines for space systems, including satellite communication. The guidelines cover four segments: the Space Segment (satellite and p...
**Overview** The India AI Impact Summit 2026, held from February 16 to 21 in New Delhi, marked a historic global convergence for artificial intelligence. The mega-event concluded with the adoption of the 'New Delhi Decla...
