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A team of young scientists at IIT Madras has built ARTSENS, a five-minute test that reveals the true age of your arteries, years before a heart attack shows any sign. Through a mission called VESPA, they are now mapping the vascular health of the whole country to build India's first early-warning guidelines.

A naked mole-rat can lose consciousness within seconds of entering an oxygen-free environment and still survive for 18 minutes. That was the finding of a 2017 study that tested how these underground rodents respond to conditions that would quickly become fatal for most mammals.

Indian scientists have developed RK-251, a prodrug designed to activate inside cancer cells. Experts say the early findings are promising, but human trials must establish safety and effectiveness.

When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks that could reveal how the lunar surface formed. During their mission, they spotted an unusually bright fragment near Spur Crater, a small feature on the slope of Hadley Delta.

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu says engineers, scientists and doctors entering business should make plenty of sales calls, face rejection and learn to communicate their ideas better.

An invasive species threat has reached a new stretch of the Colorado River, after scientists detected zebra mussel DNA in Utah's portion of the river for the first time. The discovery has raised concerns among wildlife officials because zebra mussels can spread rapidly once established, potentially damaging infrastructure, disrupting recreation and altering freshwater ecosystems.

Scientists have traced hidden pathways through animal evolution by comparing thousands of genomes and following pieces of chromosomes that have survived for hundreds of millions of years. The study examined 5,821 chromosome-scale genomes from 4,454 species across 19 animal phyla, using 29 ancient linkage groups as markers of chromosome history.

Scientists suspect an ice-rock avalanche in Lende Khola triggered Nepal's deadly Rasuwa flood. The probe now centres on whether an upstream blockage could unleash a second surge.

Researchers have created a living seed bank to protect North America's endangered black ash trees from extinction after decades of damage from an invasive insect. Led by scientists at Pennsylvania State University, the conservation project has successfully germinated 22,000 black ash seeds collected from across the tree's natural range.

There are no indigenous mammals on Antarctica, no indigenous reptiles and only a single insect that can be called native to this continent. The creature is known as the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica.