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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - August 2016

Aug 2016

Jun 27, 2025

India Leads with 92% Employees Embracing GenAI Tools

India is leading the global GenAI charge, with 92 per cent of employees embracing such tools, well ahead of the global average of 72 per cent, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The third edition of BCG's annual survey, based on responses from over 10,600 workers across 11 countries, revealed that while AI adoption is strong overall, only 51 per cent of frontline employees are regular users--a figure that has stagnated.
Meanwhile, the Global South continues to lead in adoption, with India at 92 per cent and the Middle East at 87 per cent as the nations with the highest levels of regular use.

Jun 25, 2025

Dangeti Jahnavi Becomes First Indian to Complete NASA's Space Program

Dangeti Jahnavi from Andhra Pradesh etched her name in the annals of Indian space exploration history by becoming the first Indian to successfully complete NASA's prestigious International Air and Space Program.
This remarkable achievement positions her as a trailblazer in India's growing participation in international space missions and demonstrates the country's expanding capabilities in aerospace technology.
Jahnavi has been selected to travel to the Titan's Orbital Port Space Station, a groundbreaking US-based project scheduled for inauguration within the next four years.
Her 2029 space mission will mark a historic moment as she becomes one of the first Indians to participate in commercial space station operations, representing India's growing involvement in international space collaborations.

Jun 22, 2025

HAL Wins Deal to Manufacture and Commercialise SSLV Launches

In a development for India's space sector, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) secured a Rs. 511 crore Transfer of Technology (ToT) deal from ISRO to manufacture and commercialise Small Satellite Launch Vehicles (SSLVs). The announcement was made by IN-SPACe, the national space promotion agency, following a rigorous bidding and evaluation process. This move marks a significant leap in the commercialisation of India's space capabilities.
HAL emerged as the winning bidder among three shortlisted contenders for the SSLV ToT programme.
HAL will manufacture at least two SSLVs with ISRO's support before independently producing them.

Jun 21, 2025

IIA, Bengaluru Scientists Discover a New Kind of Stellar Chemistry

Far away in the Ophiuchus Constellation, a peculiar star named A980, 25800 light years away, is rewriting what we know about stellar chemistry. Researchers uncovered a cosmic twist -- this mysterious star that belongs to a rare class called Extreme Helium (EHe) stars, carries surprisingly high amount of germanium—a metallic element never before observed in this type of star.
A980 was initially thought to be a hydrogen-deficient carbon star, a peculiar breed of cool star that lacks hydrogen—the most common element in the universe.
A closer look by astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) using the Hanle Echelle Spectrograph on the Himalayan Chandra Telescope in Ladakh, showed something strange. Its spectrum—essentially a stellar fingerprint—did not match what they expected.
Instead, the pattern looked a lot like that of another rare type of star, LS IV -14° 109, a known cool EHe star. These stars are so rare that only a handful have been identified. What makes them special is that they are almost entirely made of helium, and they are likely formed when two white dwarf stars—one carbon-oxygen rich and the other helium-rich—merged in a spectacular cosmic collision.
The team also spotted something no one had ever seen before in an EHe star -- singly-ionised germanium (Ge II) lines. This means that germanium atoms in the star had lost one electron, leaving a distinct trace in the star's spectrum.

Jun 20, 2025

Global Cybersecurity Alert: 16 Billion Logins Exposed in Historic Data Breach

In an alarming cybersecurity revelation, researchers uncovered a massive data breach exposing 16 billion login credentials, including passwords, from popular platforms like Apple, Google, Facebook, GitHub, and Telegram. This unprecedented breach spans multiple datasets and poses a serious threat to users and institutions worldwide, with potential implications for account takeovers, phishing attacks, and broader cybercrimes.
The breach, considered one of the largest in history, was brought to light by cybersecurity experts who discovered over 30 datasets, each containing up to 3.5 billion user records. The breach exposes current, high-value login credentials, not just outdated leaks, making it a critical cybersecurity threat in 2025.

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