New details about last week’s encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad have emerged with the police claiming on Tuesday that the Naxals had used villagers, including minors, in an unsuccessful bid to save the life of their senior cadre, Karthik. Karthik was among seven Naxals killed in the encounter on December 12 and at least four civilians … Read more
New Delhi: Can artificial intelligence (AI) tell whether you’re happy, sad, angry or frustrated? According to technology companies that offer AI-enabled emotion recognition software, the answer to this question is yes. But this claim does not stack up against mounting scientific evidence. What’s more, emotion recognition technology poses a range of legal and societal risks … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) on Tuesday released the most detailed 3D High-Resolution images of the fetal brain. This pioneering work from the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre of IIT Madras pushes the frontiers of Brain Mapping Technology and places India in the global league of brain mapping science as this is first-of-its-kind … Read more
Getty Images An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells. Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there … Read more
New Delhi: When I first read that Elon Musk aimed to implant computer chips in human brains, I thought him crazy. Even if the medical risks could be overcome, even if there were advantages, would humans consent to giving up free will and their ability to think for themselves? Would they entrust their emotions and … Read more
MRC/Nature As beautiful as it is complex, the fly’s brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates – all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain … Read more
Deputy Commissioner Divya Prabhu G.R.J. has said that around 79,000 people from different walks of life will participate in a 51-km-long human chain to be formed in Dharwad district to mark the International Day of Democracy on Sunday. Addressing a press conference in Dharwad on Friday, the Deputy Commissioner said that Indian democracy stands on … Read more
Scientists have launched their first in-human vaccine trial for a highly fatal virus. The Marburg virus is in the same family as Ebola and was discovered in 1967. There are currently no approved vaccines or treatments for the virus, which is listed as a ‘high consequence’ infectious disease by the UK Health Security Agency. Now, … Read more
The healthcare landscape is undergoing a significant digital transformation. Innovations such as telemedicine consultations and wearable health trackers are revolutionizing the delivery and receipt of care. These technological advancements offer substantial benefits, including increased accessibility, enhanced data collection, and potentially faster diagnoses. For instance, telemedicine has grown by over 150 per cent in recent years, … Read more
A 59-year-old man in Mexico has died with a type of bird flu – H5N2 – never recorded in people before now. There is no risk to the wider public, say authorities, and none of the man’s close contacts have caught the virus. It is unclear how he got it, although there have been cases … Read more