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AI is transforming weather forecasting − and that could be a game changer for farmers around the world

AI is transforming weather forecasting − and that could be a game changer for farmers around the world

04 Sep 2025

4 min read

Weather forecasts help farmers figure out when to plant, where to use fertilizer and much more

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ESA’s solar orbiter traces origin of energy particles from the Sun, could help understand space weather: Study

ESA’s solar orbiter traces origin of energy particles from the Sun, could help understand space weather: Study

Rohini Krishnamurthy

01 Sep 2025

3 min read

Yersinia pestis was responsible for the Plague of Justinian, the world’s first recorded pandemic

Yersinia pestis was responsible for the Plague of Justinian, the world’s first recorded pandemic

30 Aug 2025

2 min read

UNGA launches two new initiatives to strengthen global cooperation on AI governance

UNGA launches two new initiatives to strengthen global cooperation on AI governance

27 Aug 2025

2 min read

Gerardus Mercator: Why the 16th century Fleming cartographer is in the African Union’s crosshairs

Gerardus Mercator: Why the 16th century Fleming cartographer is in the African Union’s crosshairs

19 Aug 2025

5 min read

Why did Napoleon’s Grand Armee perish in the 1812 retreat from Moscow? Study identifies new culprits

Why did Napoleon’s Grand Armee perish in the 1812 retreat from Moscow? Study identifies new culprits

06 Aug 2025

3 min read

ISRO, NASA successfully launch NISAR to map planet’s minute features

ISRO, NASA successfully launch NISAR to map planet’s minute features

Rohini Krishnamurthy

30 Jul 2025

3 min read

Trump administration’s grand AI action plan threatens water & energy security, open doors to fossil fuel exploitation: Experts

Trump administration’s grand AI action plan threatens water & energy security, opens doors to fossil fuel exploitation: Experts

24 Jul 2025

3 min read

Debate over synthetic biology in conservation divides scientific community ahead of IUCN meet

Debate over synthetic biology in conservation divides scientific community ahead of IUCN meet

Shimali Chauhan

21 Jul 2025

4 min read

Interviews

'Biggest problem with India's rooftop solar industry is lack of quality guaranteed by local installer'

‘Biggest problem with India’s rooftop solar industry is lack of quality guarantee on end-to-end product by local installer’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

23 Jul 2025

Screengrab of a brush fire in LA.

Scale of LA fires is unusual compared to emissions from California fires for January over the last 20 years: Mark Parrington

Rohini Krishnamurthy

27 Jan 2025

‘India a laboratory for seismologists’

‘India a laboratory for seismologists’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

25 Jan 2025

The current Digital Data Protection Act is excessively vague: Apar Gupta

Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 will only be a nominal checkbox: Apar Gupta

Rohini Krishnamurthy

15 Jan 2025

‘Story of human origin is still not figured out or over’

‘Story of human origin is still not figured out or over’

03 Jan 2025

‘Space profoundly alters microbes’

‘Space profoundly alters microbes’

20 Jul 2024

Priya Moorjani, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Illustration: Yogendra Anand)

‘Indians have largest variety of Neanderthal, Denisovan genes’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

15 Apr 2024

Image: Custom colormap package by cmastro; Claire Lamman / DESI collaboration

‘We are seeing a sign that dark energy is not a cosmological constant’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

05 Apr 2024

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

Rohini Krishnamurthy

20 Sep 2023

‘There is a fundamental joy in exploring our universe, but it comes with great responsibility’

‘There is a fundamental joy in exploring our universe, but it comes with great responsibility’

26 Aug 2023

Frame 352 of the famous Patterson-Gimlin film, alleged to depict a female Bigfoot. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Cryptozoology is not a quest for animals but for monsters: Peter Dendle

25 Aug 2023

Our expertise and observations complemented those from Europe: Gopakumar Achamveedu

Our expertise and observations complemented those from Europe: Gopakumar Achamveedu

Rohini Krishnamurthy

01 Jul 2023

Blog

AI is transforming weather forecasting − and that could be a game changer for farmers around the world

AI is transforming weather forecasting − and that could be a game changer for farmers around the world

04 Sep 2025

4 min read

Supernova theory links an exploding star to global cooling and human evolution

Supernova theory links an exploding star to global cooling and human evolution

Francis Thackeray

03 Sep 2025

4 min read

African women have less access to the internet than men — solutions the G20 can champion

African women have less access to the internet than men — solutions the G20 can champion

Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo

27 Aug 2025

4 min read

Are we beyond laws of evolution?

Are we beyond laws of evolution?

Richard Mahapatra

25 Aug 2025

3 min read

Data that is stored and not used has a carbon footprint. How companies can manage dark data better

Data that is stored and not used has a carbon footprint. How companies can manage dark data better

25 Aug 2025

4 min read

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon — a space lawyer explains why and what the law has to say

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon — a space lawyer explains why and what the law has to say

Michelle LD Hanlon

11 Aug 2025

4 min read

Videos

Can we afford space tourism in a rapidly warming, unequal world?

Can we afford space tourism in a rapidly warming, unequal world?

19 Apr 2025

1 min read

Did science just resurrect the prehistoric dire wolf?

Did science just resurrect the prehistoric dire wolf?

12 Apr 2025

1 min read

AI Summit 2025: Safety concerns and an energy-guzzling future

AI Summit 2025: Safety concerns and an energy-guzzling future

14 Feb 2025

2 min read

Why athletes worldwide turn to genetic screening for improved performance

Why athletes worldwide turn to genetic screening for improved performance

30 Jul 2024

1 min read

ISRO launches XPoSat; here is what it is expected to do

ISRO launches XPoSat; here is what it is expected to do

03 Jan 2024

2 min read

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

07 Jan 2024

1 min read

Indian Space Research Organisation’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1 reaches its destination

Indian Space Research Organisation’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1 reaches its destination

08 Jan 2024

1 min read

Global electricity consumption by AI could increase by 85-134 TWh annually by 2027

Global electricity consumption by AI could increase by 85-134 TWh annually by 2027

13 Oct 2023

2 min read

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Books

Book Excerpt: Of algorithms we use and a small town in Bihar

Book Excerpt: Of algorithms we use and a small town in Bihar

11 Jan 2025

All-pervasive AI

All-pervasive AI

Nandita Banerji

27 Jul 2024

Science Tales

Science Tales

Rakesh Kalshian

05 Feb 2020

Illustration: R Itika Bohra

On loony ideas

31 May 2020

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Titles Jupiter Marble (2019), this colour-enhanced view of Jupiter shows the iconic Great Red Spot alongside the swirling turbulence of the southern hemisphere. Made from three images taken during a close pass in February 2019, it highlights the dramatic contrasts in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Citizen scientist Kevin M Gill processed the raw JunoCam data to create the image.

Juno’s last orbit: NASA’s Jupiter mission set to end next month

Nandita Banerji

22 Aug 2025

2 min read

DTE Palette: 4 books you should read this week

DTE Palette: 4 books you should read this week

12 Jul 2025

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A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300

Hubble telescope turns 35: A celestial celebration in 5 stunning images

Nandita Banerji

25 Apr 2025

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To worlds afar

To worlds afar

19 Apr 2025

1 min read

The journey of AI

The journey of AI

12 Apr 2025

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Simply Put: Maus

03 May 2024

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Simply Put: The mystery of Earthlings

03 Mar 2024

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Simply Put: Priorities

19 Mar 2024

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