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Expert Explains: Why Thorium-based nuclear power generation is key to securing India’s energy independence | Explained News
[ad_1] India’s nuclear strategy has long rested on a three-stage programme, built around a basic constraint: the country has limited uranium but vast reserves of thorium. In the first stage, pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) run on uranium to generate electricity and produce plutonium. The second stage uses this plutonium ...
How One US Startup Just Erased crores of rupees From Indian IT Giants
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Feb 5, 2026 01:55 PM IST Indian IT stocks crashed in opening trade on Wednesday, dragging Sensex down by over 100 points — mirroring a sharp selloff on Wall Street that has raised uncomfortable questions about the future of the software industry. The Nifty IT ...
Why this sleek car feature is now a safety flashpoint
[ad_1] In a global first, China has announced a ban on “hidden” or retractable car door handles from 2027. A feature increasingly found in several manual and electric cars, its global popularity has been attributed to Elon Musk’s Tesla. Simultaneously, the system has raised safety concerns. As early as 2013, ...
In India’s first-ever Disaster Victim Identification guidelines, teeth hold the key | Explained News
[ad_1] India’s first-ever guidelines and standard operating procedures for Disaster Victim Identification (DVI), released by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) late last month, are aimed at ensuring recognition, registration and dignified handover of human remains to families in the event of mass fatality incidents. The reason behind formulating them ...
PM Modi, Sundar Pichai, and China delegation to attend
[ad_1] The AI Impact Summit 2026, which India will host from February 16 to 20, is intended to generate actionable recommendations that contribute to long-term artificial intelligence (AI) governance objectives rather than framing immediate binding regulations. Coming to the Global South for the first time, the summit represents the latest ...
This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.
[ad_1] 4 min readFeb 9, 2026 07:49 PM IST In late December, researchers were descending a remotely operated vehicle in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina when, at a depth of roughly 800 feet, the control room fell silent. On the screens, a jellyfish appeared. But it was no ordinary sighting: ...
Vadodara just conducted a census for crocodiles. Its findings will help understand their behaviour better | Explained News
[ad_1] On Saturday (February 7), the Gujarat Forest Department and the zoology department of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU) concluded a two-day crocodile census, conducted on a 17.5 km stretch of the Vishwamitri river in Vadodara. The departments will now analyse the data from it. This census comes ...
India is set to get two new telescopes and upgrade one in Ladakh. Here’s how it will be a game-changer for astronomy | Explained News
[ad_1] In this year’s Union Budget, the government sanctioned the establishment of two new telescopes to study the sun and the origins of the universe, besides the upgradation of an existing telescope, in Ladakh. Ladakh is already a major centre of astronomy in the country, being home to several big ...
Why this UC Berkeley expert warns of a “human extinction” risk
[ad_1] The AI revolution is unfolding before our eyes, and there is considerable excitement about how its magical powers may change our lives, for better and worse. Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, warns us about the dangers of this technology and the ...
Why AGI is 100x bigger than the Manhattan Project—and 75% likely to fail
[ad_1] The AI revolution is unfolding before our eyes, and there is considerable excitement about how its magical powers may change our lives, for better and worse. Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, warns us about the dangers of this technology and the ...
