New York — In a dazzling display of global admiration, a coalition of prominent Indian-American community organizations united to celebrate the birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, broadcasting a special birthday greeting on a...

Scientists have taken a striking step toward decoding visual information from the brain by reconstructing short movies using neural activity recorded from mice. Researchers at University College London (UCL) used signals from individual neurons in...

The 2026 US midterm elections are approaching, with voters across the country set to choose members of Congress as well as candidates for a wide range of state and local offices. The general election will...

Earth’s surface is dominated by oceans, rivers and ice, but some of the planet’s water may be stored in a far less accessible place: nearly 2,900 kilometers beneath our feet. A new study published in...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to automate legitimate tasks, but Spain’s data protection regulator says it has now received a report of an incident in which an AI agent was allegedly used to carry...

A fungus living in the human gut may have an unexpected role: helping the intestine withstand damage caused by radiation. Chinese researchers have identified Mucor racemosus, a filamentous fungus that can live in the gut,...

India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is changing a key part of its pricing model from October 15, 2026, introducing a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on certain higher-value merchant payments. Under the revised framework, eligible Person-to-Merchant...

Mars may look like a frozen, lifeless desert, but new observations show that its climate is far more dynamic and structured than a simple cycle of hot days and freezing nights. Researchers from India’s Physical...

A former Google DeepMind researcher has issued one of the starkest recent warnings about artificial intelligence, arguing that increasingly capable systems could eventually pose an existential threat to humanity. Bilal Chughtai, who worked on AGI...

Saudi Arabia’s newest military partnership is facing an early test after alerts were issued around Mecca, Jeddah and Taif amid a fresh wave of attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces from Yemen. The episode is particularly...