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​Representative Image of an apple orchard with solar panels providing shade while generating electricity (AI-generated image) In 2022, researchers running a field experiment in southern France found that moving solar panels installed above an apple orchard sharply reduced sunburn damage on the fruit. The system, known as a dynamic agrivoltaic setup, tilts photovoltaic panels through…

Snow-covered mountain ranges of the Montagne Noire. Image Credit: Von Christian Ferrer/Wikipedia Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the South Pole about 470 million years ago. The fossils belong to the newly described Cabrières Biota, an Early Ordovician fossil site in…

PC: 3M Young Scientist Lab Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture. His idea led to a low-cost atmospheric water capture system built with ordinary materials,…

Harmful algal blooms can turn freshwater ecosystems into dangerous environments, but researchers at Florida Atlantic University are developing a novel way to tackle one of the nutrients that helps drive them, excess phosphorus. Rather than removing algae after a bloom has already formed, the team is developing 3D-printed adsorbent structures designed to capture phosphate directly…

On Ishigaki Island, cane toads have been living in conditions quite different from those faced by the populations from which they came. The island is warm, wet and separated from mainland habitats, and the animals introduced there in the late 1970s have now had several decades to establish themselves. When scientists compared these Japanese toads…

A major conservation effort launched in 2002 has restored New Mexico’s official state fish to more than 120 miles of connected mountain streams, marking one of the largest native fish restoration projects in the United States. For more than two decades, state and federal conservation agencies have worked to remove non-native predators and restore high-altitude…

In a significant development, a Bengaluru cancer centre has begun using Karnataka’s first Elekta Unity MR-Linac bringing MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy to the state. The HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG) in the city has started treating patients with the new technology. As per HCG’s August 18, 2026 announcement and Elekta’s technical information, the system combines a…

Machu Picchu. Image Credit: Draceane/Wikipedia Archaeologists have discovered at least 2.5 kilometres of previously hidden pre-Hispanic roads near Machu Picchu by using lasers to look beneath the dense vegetation covering the landscape. The discovery was made around the Mandor Wall, east of the famous Inca citadel, during a preliminary archaeological survey in July 2026. Instead…

Image: Wikipedia/AI-Refined Throughout time, man has always searched for his rightful place within nature. Man is one and the same biological entity as every other living thing, but he possesses unique capabilities of reasoning and questioning which distinguish him from all other species and give him a special vantage point within nature. This idea was…

Arundas N H and Aswathy T (PC: ccari) Two postgraduates from Kochi have made headlines after turning a stubborn challenge in mud-crab farming into a technology-driven startup. The two brilliant minds have now won national recognition along with a ₹10 lakh innovation grant. Meet Arundas N H and Aswathy T, the two graduates of the…

Representative Image (AI-generated) Earth’s atmosphere does not simply end where airplanes stop flying. Far above the planet, in a region known as the thermosphere, an extremely thin layer of gas continues to interact with satellites orbiting Earth. Changes in this region may seem insignificant, but they can alter atmospheric drag and gradually affect the paths…

Yan carried out the research as part of his computational biology and bioinformatics project. 18-year-old Jonathan Yan, a student from Irvine, California sucessfully stopped spread of cancer cells by blocking the transsulfuration pathway in cancer cell lines. Yan studied 479 human cancer cell lines as part of his computational biology and bioinformatics project for the…