August 2026

Pooja Pal’s journey- from studying under a kerosene lamp to earning national recognition for innovation For Pooja Pal, innovation did not begin in a laboratory or with expensive equipment. It began with a problem she could see every day. Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district, Pooja noticed children coughing because…

Entire village engulfed by raging flash flood in terrifying video (Video credit: X) Footage filmed by locals captures the terrifying moment a massive flash flood tears through a village in Nepal, sending residents running for higher ground as torrents of mud and water sweep through the settlement.In one of the videos, people can be seen…

AI-generated image for representation purpose Teachers can face difficult conversations with parents. Researchers at La Trobe University in Australia are trying to change that with an AI-powered talking robot called Fletch. The robot can take on the role of a disgruntled parent, allowing trainee teachers to practise responding to complaints, arguments and other difficult conversations…

The method, called Extreme Event Aware, or “η-learning”, does not need previous extreme events to create these scenarios. (Representational AP photo) What would a once-in-a-century storm look like if it was stronger than anything recorded before? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a machine-learning method that can generate realistic scenarios for…

Monsoon floods hit cities despite road projects (AI image used for representational purpose only) For years, India has been building bigger roads, wider highways, flyovers, expressways and new urban corridors. The country has invested heavily in improving the way people move through its cities. Yet every monsoon brings back an uncomfortable question: why can a…

The cultural importance of the island is demonstrated by the some 3,000 archeological and historical sites and features that were documented through 2004. From an island carved by voyagers, farmers and sacred traditions comes the unlikely story of thousands of hungry goats. They grew on Kaho’olawe from a small 18th-century introduction into a herd of…