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37 stories for “Science & Technology” · August 2026
Clear filtersVice President C. P. Radhakrishnan launched 'Gnani Artha', a sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) stack built by GNANI AI, in New Delhi. It includes Evon 3.3, a Large Language Model (LLM), and Plexus, a platform that l...
IIT Madras has successfully tested India's first indigenous 5 kN air-breathing Rotating Detonation Engine (RDE) fitted with an aerospike nozzle, achieving a stable 5 kN thrust through sustained pressure-gain combustion....
Bengaluru-based defence startup Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled FWD Supreme Lite, billed as India's first AI-piloted fighter aircraft programme. Designed and developed in India, it is a 250-kg-class...
The National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP), a Nagpur-based ICAR institute, has prepared India's first soil texture map, offering digitised soil classification at hectare level nationwide. Soil te...
India aims to set up its own space station by 2035, and ISRO has approved the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station, called BAS-01. The station is planned as a 52-tonne facility in low-Earth orbit at 4...
ISRO intends to launch GISAT-1A (Geo Imaging Satellite-1A) in September 2026, resuming launches after a recent pause. It replaces GISAT-1 (EOS-03), lost in the GSLV-F10 mission of August 2021, when the cryogenic upper st...
Scientists have named S301 the fastest-moving star on a confirmed orbit in the Milky Way. It reaches a top speed of about 25,000 km/s, nearly 8% of the speed of light, while following a highly elliptical 8.7-year orbit a...
Scientists have classified the exoplanet GJ 523b as a “mega-Earth”, a rocky planet with a radius of at least 2.1 Earth radii and density of at least 5.5 g/cm³. GJ 523b is about 2.55 times Earth’s radius, 23.5 Earth masse...
Researchers have found signs of microbial life at least 3.5 billion years old in a carbon-bearing chert from Bhitardari in the Singhbhum Craton, which spans parts of Jharkhand and Odisha. Four of the eight zircon crystal...
National Space Day on 23 August marks India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, whose Vikram lander soft-landed in the Moon’s south polar region in 2023. With it India became the fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing and t...
Indian scientists from the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT-Guwahati have created RK-251, a “smart” anticancer drug meant to switch on mainly inside cancer cells, which could reduce h...
Researchers at IIT Mandi have developed a bio-inspired coating for 3D-printed bone implants made of polylactic acid (PLA), a biodegradable plastic whose surface does not bond easily with bone. The coating consists of tin...
