Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children

Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children

According to a report that cautions against the use of AI-powered talking toys on small children, the toys should be more strictly regulated and have new safety kitemarks, since they are not necessarily intended at children with the safety of their psychology in mind. The suggestion is found in the first report of AI in […]

Iran Rejects Claims of Allowing Indian Tankers Through Strait of Hormuz; Talks Still Underway, Says Jaishankar

Iran Rejects Claims of Allowing Indian Tankers Through Strait of Hormuz; Talks Still Underway, Says Jaishankar

Iran has categorically denied reports suggesting it gave special permission for India-flagged oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, dismissing the claims as unfounded amid the ongoing conflict that has choked the vital shipping lane since late February. The controversy erupted yesterday when several Indian news outlets reported that Tehran had quietly agreed […]

IEA Release of Emergency Reserves to Ease Oil Flow in 120 Days, Impact Seen in India Already

IEA Release of Emergency Reserves to Ease Oil Flow in 120 Days, Impact Seen in India Already

The International Energy Agency’s 32 member countries have unanimously agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves, the largest such action in the agency’s history, following the US-Israel war on Iran that resulted in the latter choking Strait of Hormuz shipment flows to less than 10% of pre-conflict levels. Under the IEA […]

Oval orbit casts new light on black hole, neutron star mergers

Oval orbit casts new light on black hole, neutron star mergers

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an oval path rather than a perfect circle just before they merged. This discovery challenges long-standing assumptions about how these cosmic pairs form and evolve. Researchers from the University of Birmingham, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and […]

DRDO, Indian Navy conduct trials of Air Droppable Container from P8I aircraft

DRDO, Indian Navy conduct trials of Air Droppable Container from P8I aircraft

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy jointly conducted four successful in-flight release trials of the indigenous Air Droppable Container ‘ADC-150’ from the P8I aircraft off the coast of Goa between February 21 to March 01, 2026, at different extreme release conditions. Indigenously designed and developed to deliver 150 kg payload, the […]

How being squeezed contributes to risk of breast cancer cells

How being squeezed contributes to risk of breast cancer cells

A recent study conducted by scientists working in Adelaide University and published in the journal Science Advances has shown the reason as to why certain cancers may grow and survive the body, whereas others do not. It happens that the hard mechanical stress to which the early cancer cells undergo as they are squeezed into a […]

What makes a hit? On Tiktok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide

What makes a hit? On Tiktok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide

TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the platform’s Top 100. On Spotify, love songs and music from major record labels dominate its top charts. On both platforms, people’s preferences only partly explain what songs become hits. A new University of California, Davis, […]

Less psychedelic, more medical magic mushrooms

Less psychedelic, more medical magic mushrooms

The psychoactive substance of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, is under scientific scrutiny as being useful in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, substance use disorder and some neurodegenerative diseases. It can be limited to broader therapeutic uses, however, by the hallucinogenic effects. A study on the effects of psilocin, the active compound in […]

What is Rett Syndrome ? New study Opens Avenue to Cure This Rare Disorder

What is Rett Syndrome ? New study Opens Avenue to Cure This Rare Disorder

A group of researchers at the Texas Children Neurological Research Institute (NRI), Duncan, Baylor College of Medicine, found  a possible new therapy to cure Rett syndrome has been reported in the Science Translational Medicine journal, with the early signs of success in a neurodevelopmental disorder with no cure yet. According to the corresponding author, Dr. […]