Health and science stories relevant to India: research, medicine, space, environment, and climate.
The United States released the European thistle seedhead weevil, Rhinocyllus conicus, between 1969 and 1972 to control invasive musk thistle and reduce its seed production. The insect’s larvae feed inside flower heads,…
A 16-year-old boy from Beldanga in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, who had been spending days and nights in ponds due to an intense burning sensation on his body, has been airlifted to…
Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, has performed north India's first four-way paired kidney transplant, involving four patients and four donors from Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Bihar and Nagaland. The eight simultaneous surgeries…
India performed 18,911 organ transplants in 2024, including 3,403 from deceased donors, according to the Ministry of Health's annual report. The country is now the world's third-largest by total transplants and the…
The Kashyapa Samhita, an ancient Indian medical text by sage Vriddha Kashyapa, describes how infants express pain through distinct bodily signs and behaviour, according to a report by India Today. The text's…
Researchers have discovered a new species of subterranean fish, Gangaichthys indonepalicus, after spotting it in a TikTok video. The colourless, translucent eel, measuring about 4 cm, is the first subterranean fish documented…
Glacier velocity in the Zanskar Himalayas of Ladakh dropped 16% between 1992 and 2023, with a simultaneous acceleration in ice thinning, a new study published in The Cryosphere journal has found. The…
A University of Delhi study has found that a laboratory strain of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads dengue, showed reduced susceptibility to the insecticide α-cypermethrin. At the diagnostic dose, 97.91% of…
The western Himalaya, covering Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh, is warming faster than the central and eastern stretches, a study has found. Winter temperatures are rising faster than spring temperatures,…
Two years after surviving stage IV ovarian cancer, Baishali Bhattacharya gave birth to a healthy baby in 2024 and was able to breastfeed under medical supervision. She was operated on in 2020…
