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56 stories for “Science” · September 2026
Clear filtersWorld Duchenne Awareness Day, observed on September 7, spreads awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare, progressive genetic disorder and one of the most common rare genetic diseases in children. It resu...
Google has introduced India's first agricultural Artificial Intelligence models through the AnthroKrishi team of Google DeepMind. Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) maps farm fields and supports land analysis. Ag...
CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI), Chennai, has created a leather-like material using coffee husk waste. India produces about 3.5 lakh tonnes of coffee a year, leaving around 1 lakh tonnes of husk. The...
Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched BIO-NIVESH in New Delhi, a platform that connects biotechnology startups with investors. It seeks to draw more private investment into biotech innovations that are ready to scale up...
India unveiled 'Agni Kawach', its first safety platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, at the 6th International Climate Summit (ICS-2026) held in New Delhi. The platform applies AI to support industrial safety proce...
Bodhan AI, a startup incubated at IIT Madras, has launched four open-weight artificial intelligence models for Indian languages in partnership with AI4Bharat. The models handle speech recognition, speech generation, mach...
The 36th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on 3 September 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland. Organised every year by the Annals of Improbable Research, the prizes honour research that "makes people laugh, then think." Researc...
Bhutan has become the first country in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem. Rabies is a viral infection of the central nervous system...
India achieved its best-ever tally at the 19th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) 2026, hosted by Italy, by securing nine medals. The Indian student team brought home 4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. Partic...
Sikkim has flagged 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, 16 of them in the top-risk Category A for possible Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Such lakes form from glacier meltwater and can burst suddenly due to excess water...
Researchers from JNCASR, the University of Sydney and IISc have created a crystal that delivers nearly 1,000 times the thermoelectric voltage of the textbook limit. They used magnesium-doped scandium nitride (ScN) thin f...
Noted climate scientist and IIT Delhi professor Krishna Achuta Rao passed away at 62 on September 4, 2026. He helped identify human influence on climate change, including temperature shifts across Indian sub-regions, wor...
