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Cyclone Montha slams into India by AFP Staff Writers New Delhi Oct 28, 2025 Heavy rain and gusty winds lashed India’s southern coast as Cyclone Montha started to make landfall on Tuesday, officials said, disrupting flights and triggering waterlogging in low-lying areas. Cyclones, the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the

Unlocking the secrets to the building blocks of the universe by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2025 Indiana University researchers, working in concert with global teams, have advanced our understanding of why the universe contains matter. Their collaboration involved a joint analysis between the NOvA experiment in the United States and T2K

‘Smooth and easy’: India and China resume direct flights as ties improve By Peter CATTERALL in Guangzhou, Sailendra SIL in Kolkata Guangzhou/Kolkata (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 Passengers of the first direct flight between India and China in five years touched down on Monday, after Asia’s giants lifted a long-term air travel suspension as they cautiously

Shifting landscapes shaped Madagascar’s unique biodiversity by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2025 A team of researchers at ETH Zurich has discovered that Madagascar’s dramatic topography and exceptional biodiversity can be traced to a pair of ancient rifting events separated by nearly 80 million years. The first tectonic shift, around 170 million years

India trials Delhi cloud seeding to combat deadly smog by AFP Staff Writers New Delhi (AFP) Oct 24, 2025 India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using

Yeast demonstrates survival skills under Mars conditions by Simon Mansfield Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2025 Researchers from the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science and the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad have shown that baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) can endure the extreme conditions found on Mars. Their study exposed yeast cells

Indian capital chokes after Diwali firework frenzy by AFP Staff Writers New Delhi (AFP) Oct 21, 2025 Toxic air in India’s capital hit more than 56 times the UN health limit early Tuesday, after fireworks for the Hindu festival of Diwali worsened air pollution. This month, the Supreme Court relaxed a ban on fireworks during

Toxic haze chokes Indian capital by AFP Staff Writers New Delhi (AFP) Oct 20, 2025 India’s capital New Delhi was shrouded in a thick, toxic haze on Monday as air pollution levels soared to more than 16 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum. New Delhi and its sprawling metropolitan region — home to

Could these wacky warm Jupiters help astronomers solve the planet formation puzzle? by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 What do you do when you have an unanticipated astronomical phenomenon, a dataset made of planets thousands of light-years away and theoretical models that fail to explain what exactly you’re looking at? If

Yeast withstands Mars-like shocks and toxic salts in survival test by Simon Mansfield Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity – from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at the Indian Institute of