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The research, conducted by scientists from IISc’s Department of Physics and international collaborators, was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. It examines how magnetic fields influence stellar evolution and whether stars can naturally develop into white dwarfs whose masses exceed the conventional theoretical boundary.
The Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre will undertake a large-scale scientific programme to convert more than 100 human brains into detailed three-dimensional digital atlases. The project will capture microscopic structures at cellular resolution, providing researchers with information that conventional brain imaging cannot reveal.
The updated database, formally titled Updated Science-Wide Author Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators, was released on 7 October 2026. It uses Scopus citation information available as of 1 August 2026 and examines research citations accumulated through the end of 2025.
A team of researchers from S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, and Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, both institute of Department of Science and Technology (DST) as well as from SRM University, Amaravati, has now demonstrated that a specially designed metal-free organic porous material, prepared from 2,4,6-tris(4-aminophenyl)-1,3,5-triazine (TTT) and 4,8-dioxo-4,8-dihydrobenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene-2,6-dicarbaldehyde (DHTD) linkers, named as TTT-DHTD.
A multi-institutional study was carried out, co-ordinated by scientists from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, an autonomous institution of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to capture the most recent 12-year optical outbursts (periodic/quasi-periodic pattern) between 2015 and 2019.
GP 1102 also stood out for its mineral profile. It recorded the highest calcium and magnesium concentrations among the tested lines, combining strong protein performance with high levels of two important nutrients. Calcium content across the collection ranged from 8.04 to 33.49 mg per 100 grams, while magnesium ranged from 24.41 to 60.59 mg per 100 grams.
The researchers first confirmed that the treated flies had developed relevant biological and behavioural changes before testing the infrared method. The flies showed impaired movement, disturbances in activity patterns and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons.
Human tissues contain an extracellular matrix, or ECM, consisting of proteins, carbohydrates and other biological molecules surrounding cells. Far from serving only as a structural framework, the extracellular matrix provides biochemical and mechanical signals that influence how cells grow, differentiate and behave.
Autophagy is a fundamental biological process through which cells remove damaged or unnecessary components. Material identified for removal is enclosed inside specialised double-membrane structures called autophagosomes. These structures subsequently deliver their contents for degradation and recycling, allowing useful molecular components to be reused.
In a study that included CHIME collaborators at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the CHIME telescope has shown, for the first time, that it can detect the faint glow of hydrogen gas from deep in the universe’s past using only its own data.
