In the past century or so, it was the first time that remains of St. Teresa of Jesus—popularly referred to as St. Teresa of Avila—were being displayed for people to see. The ceremony at the Basilica of the Annunciation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel located in Alba de Tormes, in Salamanca province, of Spain,…
Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first floor’s Alaska brown bears, is an unobtrusive locked door. On it, there is a small sign. “Bug Colony.” Behind the door, accessible only to a handful of museum employees, thousands of flesh-eating dermestid beetles toil…
DUBLIN: A few drops of saliva can now reveal what used to require a scalpel, a syringe or a scan. Scientists have developed ways to analyse spit for the tiniest traces of illness – from mouth cancer to diabetes, and even brain diseases like Alzheimer’s.Unlike blood tests or biopsies, saliva is easy to collect, painless…
US universities fight back as NSF imposes 15% cap on research cost reimbursements (mit.edu) Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with 10 other institutions, have filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation (NSF), seeking to block newly announced limits on indirect cost reimbursements for federally funded research. The suit, filed…
Jitendra Singh (PTI photo/ File) NEW DELHI: India now has everything to offer for science and research, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday, as he urged Indian researchers working abroad to plan their return with defined objectives and timelines. Speaking at the 55th foundation day of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Singh…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country. On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the…
JKBOSE Class 12 merit list 2025: Aanchal tops science, Adiba tops commerce, Areeza tops arts. (AI Image) JKBOSE Class 12 toppers 2025: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has declared the results for the Higher Secondary Part Two (Class 12) Annual Examination 2025, reporting an overall pass percentage of 75%. Out of…
Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-run economic damage equivalent to a major recession, according to a new study from researchers at American University. In recent months, the Trump administration has sought to cancel or freeze billions of dollars in grants to scientists at Columbia, Harvard and other universities, and has moved to…
Environmental Health Perspectives, widely considered the premier environmental health journal, has announced that it would pause acceptance of new studies for publication, as federal cuts have left its future uncertain. For more than 50 years, the journal has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to review studies on the health effects of environmental…
Image credit: ASU’s website The TOI correspondent from Washington: A top US scientist of Indian-origin resigned as the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), whose $ 9 billion budget funds life-changing research in America, amid allegations that the MAGA-infused Trump administration is gutting science and research in the country. Sethuraman Panchanathan, an alumnus of…