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32 stories for “Science” · October 2026
Clear filtersThe World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to CERVAVAC, the first quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine made in India to earn this status. A quadrivalent vaccine protects against four type...
India held the second meeting of the UN's GI-AI4FS (Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Agri-Food Systems) in New Delhi, alongside India Mobile Congress 2026, co-hosted by TEC (Telecommunication Engineering...
In October 2026, MeitY began implementing NSAM 2.0, the second edition of the National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing first introduced in 2022. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) builds objects layer by layer from...
The 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (formally the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has gone to two American economists, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford. They were...
Research groups in Europe and China have announced the first functioning nuclear clocks. Whereas atomic clocks keep time using an atom's electrons, nuclear clocks rely on the atomic nucleus itself. They are built around...
The third International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026 ended at Dwarka, New Delhi. Hosted by the Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA) on the sidelines of India Mobile Congress 2026, it deliberated on the path to International Mobile Tele...
Satleo Labs, a spacetech startup based in Ahmedabad, has sent TAPAS-1 (Thermal Access Platform for Analytics & Solutions-1) into orbit on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission. It is In...
Team AgniRath of IIT Madras finished third at the Sasol Solar Challenge 2026, held in South Africa, driving its solar-powered car named Aagneya. With this result the team became the first from India to take part in the e...
The Ramanujan Prize 2026 has been conferred on Professor Mahesh Kakde, who works at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, honouring his contributions to algebraic number theory. The prize has been presented...
New Delhi is hosting the 10th India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2026, and this edition has been given the theme "Scale Without Boundaries." The event's agenda spans a wide range of next-generation technologies: 6G and 5G netwo...
World Space Week, held from 4 to 10 October, celebrates the contribution of space science and technology to human development and encourages education, innovation and international cooperation. The 2026 theme is 'Rocket...
Astronomers have found a possible second-generation planet circling the white dwarf HS 0209+0832. It has been nicknamed a "phoenix planet" since it may have taken shape from matter thrown off by its dying parent star. Th...
