Hyderabad-based TakeMe2Space’s PowerBank-50 has become the first India-made satellite battery to earn flight heritage after powering Cosmoserve Space’s experimental payload aboard Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1. The 380-gram battery successfully operated at 450km altitude, surviving launch vibrations, vacuum, radiation and temperature swings. Praising it, Nirmala Sitharaman wrote on X, "Brilliant."

Scientists at ICAR-CMFRI have identified a new fish species, Cyttopsis indica (the Indian dory). Discovered between 350 and 500 meters deep in the eastern Lakshadweep Sea, this rosy-to-silvery pink fish highlights the rich, unexplored life lurking in India's twilight zones. DNA testing revealed a 4.6% to 11% genetic variation from its closest Atlantic and Pacific dory relatives.

A new IIT Kharagpur study warns that the Bay of Bengal is becoming a seismic hotspot. Heavy sediment loads from the Ganges and Brahmaputra, combined with shifting tectonic plates, are reactivating ancient underwater fractures, increasing the likelihood of tectonic intraplate quakes along India's eastern coast.

Five Indian-origin students became finalists in the 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge for innovative projects targeting everyday problems. It's one of the biggest science competitions in US for middle school students. The finalists are Aaisha Asif, Raji Doshi, Arika Kundu, Sharvi Mahajan and Naboshree Santra. The winner will receive $25,000 and the title of America's Top Young Scientist.

Union Minister for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh said there is no officially defined category called "Super El Niño" by World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) or the India Meteorological Department (IMD). He said El Niño events are classified as weak, moderate, strong or very strong. Singh added that the IMD has predicted development of El Niño conditions during 2026 southwest monsoon season.

Scientists have discovered a transmissible skin cancer in catfish, only the fourth naturally contagious cancer ever identified in animals. The finding could reveal how tumours evade immune defences and evolve across hosts. Researchers stress there is no evidence the disease poses any risk to humans or can spread to people.

The dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago when the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid struck what is now Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. A new study suggests the impact killed dinosaurs within hours as vapourised rock condensed into tiny "spherules" that rained back to Earth. The impact generated an intense heat pulse and a thick, global dust blanket that trapped heat, it added.

Beavers have been born in the wild at Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands for the first time in 400 years. There are believed to be at least two baby beavers in Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin in the glen, and both kits appear to be healthy and thriving. The kits are likely to have been born in May or June.

Educationist and Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali Angmo has responded after an X user said, "Your comments on greatness of ancient sages finding speed of light was really disgusting." Sharing a part of the Rigveda, Angmo explained how the text revealed the speed of light (185,794 miles per second) similar to the value (186,282 miles per second) used in modern science.

Researchers from the University of Calcutta and the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, have created customisable hyperbranched PEG-TMA polyesters that provide signalling between skin cells and nerve endings. These novel scaffolds provide crucial structural support needed for faster skin regeneration and nerve repair.