In this edition of the Research Matters newsletter, we have research-based articles and new species discoveries. In the regional section, we have stories in Hindi and Marathi. In the Research Beat section, we compile the top science, research and technology news from major Indian media outlets. Don’t forget to participate in the India STEAM Quiz, our weekly science quiz based on the week’s news. And check out Scidle - our science-wordle game featuring a new science word every day.
Researchers have developed a data assimilation technique that uses previously discarded, “cloudy” satellite data to improve tropical cyclone track predictions by 10%, enabling safe simulation of a storm’s core and providing more accurate, life-saving coastal warnings.
Researchers from IIT Bombay have developed a dual machine learning framework using satellite radar and elevation data to predict flood susceptibility and estimate flood water depths at a 30-meter resolution across South India’s vulnerable Western Ghats region.
Despite facing hotter temperatures and drastically drier winters, new research shows that high-altitude run-of-the-river power plants in the Himalayas will continue to meet energy targets through the end of the century.
A new mathematical framework allows scientists to calculate how pressurised healing fluids flow inside damaged rubbery materials over a thousand times faster than traditional computer simulations.
New satellite research reveals that while planned buffer zones keep American urban lakes stable for decades, unregulated growth in India is pushing vital water bodies toward a total ecological collapse within 26 years.
New ‘Tiger River’ thrips species discovered in the local flowers in Dakshina Kannada
New species of Begonia with a ‘four-horned’ fruit discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
5-million-year-old palm fossil suggests India was a prehistoric highway for tropical forests
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India tops International Physics Olympiad 2026 with five gold medals - DD News
Draft national health research policy proposes overhaul of India’s research ecosystem - The Hindu
From faith to technology - more of India’s wealthy are giving to science - BBC
What is SALT, India’s first mobile ‘liquid tree’ to fight pollution? - Business Standard
As El Niño develops, India turns to coal to offset lower hydropower - Mongabay India
Has monsoon disappeared? Satellite captures 70% of India without rain clouds - India Today
CSIR-IICT develops next-gen indigenous green refrigerants - Times of India
IISc signs AI research deal with TELUS Digital for live R&D projects - News9 Live
Three years of Chandrayaan-3: The mission that made India proud - News9 Live
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