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#arseniclife: Story of a viral study & a contentious retraction | Explained News
[ad_1] 4 min readUpdated: Jul 26, 2025 10:56 AM IST Fifteen years ago, a group of scientists made the bold claim of having discovered a microorganism that could survive using chemistry different from any known life-form. On Thursday, the journal Science, where these findings were reported, formally retracted the 2010 ...
How Lovable became a successful AI-powered app builder
[ad_1] 2 min readNew DelhiJul 26, 2025 05:39 PM IST Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, has crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, putting it ahead of most other software firms, including OpenAI. Currently, the firm has more than 2.3 million active users, and last reported 180,000 paying subscribers. Here ...
Why the launch of NASA-ISRO joint satellite NISAR matters | Explained News
[ad_1] Earth observation satellites are fairly common these days, with countries routinely deploying them in space for a variety of purposes. But the satellite that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch on Wednesday evening is anything but routine. It is a satellite that has been in ...
Google’s AI summaries are driving down website clicks. Can it reshape the way people surf the internet? | Explained News
[ad_1] As Google transitions from AI Overviews to AI Mode, which seeks to replace traditional search results altogether and instead a chatbot effectively creates a miniature article to answer a query, the big looming question is — will this change the way people surf the internet? No, claims Google, but ...
How an earthquake can generate tsunami
[ad_1] 4 min readNew DelhiJul 30, 2025 04:55 PM IST A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 16 feet, which had started to American shores along Hawaii’s islands and off the coast of northern California on Wednesday morning. Tsunami alerts ...
All about CTE, ‘brain commotion’ caused by sports injuries, that New York shooter claimed to have | Explained News
[ad_1] In a note that police found in his wallet, the gunman who killed four people in New York on Monday claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a result of playing [American] football in high school. CTE is a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated brain trauma. It ...
Why 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka quake is rare but not unusual | Explained News
[ad_1] An 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest on record, struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Russia’s far-east, about 6,500 km east of Moscow, on Wednesday morning, triggering a tsunami that struck several countries on both sides of the northern Pacific Ocean. The tsunami generated waves as high as 3-4 ...
How a new project plans to curb rhino poaching through radioactive isotope injections | Explained News
[ad_1] A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign on Thursday (July 31) with a unique approach – injecting radioactive isotopes into rhino horns. It claimed that the method is harmless for the rhinos and allows customs agents to detect trafficked horns. After six years of intense research and testing, ...
OpenAI’s low-cost, open-weight AI models are here. But are they truly ‘open’?
[ad_1] OpenAI has released new open-weight models for the first time in six years. The two new AI language models — gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B — can run on personal devices such as a laptop, and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. The launch of open-weight AI models comes after multiple delays ...
Google as a ‘monopolist’: What remedies could a US court suggest for curbing its market dominance? | Explained News
[ad_1] After calling Google a “monopolist” last year, US Judge Amit Mehta in the next few days is expected to deliver a judgement on the proposed remedies address the problem. In two separate cases in the United States in 2024 and 2025, courts held that Google monopolised key digital advertising technologies, ...
