Technology
Why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said ‘China is going to win the AI race’ | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Nov 8, 2025 06:28 AM IST Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China could overtake the US in the race for artificial intelligence (AI) because of its cheaper energy costs and fewer regulations, the Financial Times reported. “China is going to win the AI ...
An Expert Explains | Why Indian science fails to produce Nobel laureates | Explained News
[ad_1] India hasn’t produced a Nobel laureate in science in almost a century now. The reason often cited for this predicament is that India doesn’t spend enough on research. Indeed, public investment in R&D must rise to at least 3 per cent of the GDP, as current levels remain modest. ...
What govt’s AI guidelines mean for tech regulation in India | Explained News
[ad_1] The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has unveiled governance guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI), which could serve as a blueprint for how India regulates the technology, balancing innovation with accountability and growth with safety. The government had earlier signalled that it may not tighten the regulatory noose ...
How James Watson helped unravel the double helix structure of the DNA | Explained News
[ad_1] Few biologists have acquired the kind of celebrity status that James Watson and Francis Crick did. Their discovery of the double helical structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 is considered one of the biggest breakthroughs in Science, which not only enhanced understanding of how life replicates itself, but ...
Ricin poison ‘terror plot’: What is ricin, and why a few milligrams can be fatal | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Nov 14, 2025 06:54 AM IST Earlier this week, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested three men — including a doctor with a “Chinese medical degree” – for allegedly trying to produce a lethal chemical compound called Ricin. The accused were allegedly planning a terror attack, ...
Sentinel-6B : new satellite to observe ocean | Explained News
[ad_1] 2 min readNew DehiUpdated: Nov 18, 2025 01:35 PM IST Sentinel-6B was launched on Monday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It is an ocean-tracking satellite with six onboard science instruments that will measure the rising sea levels and its impacts on the planet. Sentinel-6B will orbit ...
What is an interstellar object?
[ad_1] 5 min readNew DelhiNov 21, 2025 03:07 PM IST The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Wednesday (November 19) released new images of Comet 3I/Atlas, an interstellar object that astronomers have determined is billions of years old. The new images come from a wide range of NASA missions, ...
Why Saturn’s rings will appear to have vanished this Sunday | Explained News
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiNov 23, 2025 02:49 PM IST There are few sights in the Solar System as majestic as the rings of Saturn. But on Sunday (November 23), these rings will “disappear” — though only briefly. While the vanishing will not be total, it could be a rare ...
Moss spores survive months in space: Why is this significant?
[ad_1] 3 min readNew DelhiNov 23, 2025 04:38 PM IST A team of scientists has found that moss can survive a prolonged trip to space. As part of a study, a handful of moss spores survived nine months exposed to low-orbit conditions, with 80% of them still able to reproduce ...
From gene modification to genome editing – India’s journey | Explained News
[ad_1] Cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in India has not progressed beyond cotton. Even there, no new technology has been approved for commercialisation since Monsanto’s Bollgard-II Bt cotton in May 2006. But this isn’t so with genome edited (GE) crops. In May, two GE rice lines were identified for ...
