Meat, Alcohol, Tobacco Banned In 3 Holy Cities In Punjab

The sale of meat, tobacco, alcohol, other intoxicants are now prohibited in Amritsar Walled City, Talwandi Sabo and Sri Anandpur Sahib after a notification was issued by the Punjab government,...

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Housing Britain

Vicky Spratt explores how the UK's housing crisis unfolded and asks if we can fix it.

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Vlogger's 'Payment' To Indian Food Delivery Rider In Malta Wins Hearts

A viral video showed a vlogger surprising an Indian food delivery agent working in Malta by giving him money to cover his monthly rent. The kind gesture has been applauded online.

source https://www.ndtv.com/food/viral-video-youtuber-in-malta-pays-indian-food-delivery-riders-rent-wins-hearts-online-9856119

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow

Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to accelerate worldwide.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-scientists-urge-global-plastics-treaty.html

Electricity-driven nitrogen insertion enables sustainable heterocycle synthesis

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an electrochemical reaction manifold that promotes efficient nitrogen atom insertion into saturated carbocycles to access either functionalized quinolines or N-alkylated saturated N heterocycles, both of which are privileged scaffolds in synthetic chemistry and pharmaceutical science.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-electricity-driven-nitrogen-insertion-enables.html

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and each other a lot of questions.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-climate-america-skepticism-dogmatism-personal.html

Call your pop-pop: Unlocking conversations between generations

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are investigating the conversations that happen between grandparents and grandchildren in the St. Louis area.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-conversations-generations.html

Why most exoplanets are magma worlds

In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to describe data that could be interpreted multiple ways. In some cases, that interpretation is translated into exciting new possibilities. But many times, when that happens, other, more mundane explanations are ignored for the publicity that the more interesting possibilities provide.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-exoplanets-magma-worlds.html

How rogue nations are capitalizing on gaps in crypto regulation to finance weapons programs

Two years after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, families of the victims filed suit against Binance, a major cryptocurrency platform that has been plagued by scandals.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-rogue-nations-capitalizing-gaps-crypto.html

Man Who Killed US Soldiers Was Part Of Syria's Security Forces

Syria's interior ministry said Sunday that the gunman who killed three Americans in the central Palmyra region the previous day was a member of the security forces who was set to be fired for...

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Elon Musk’s X rolls out home and lock screen widgets for iPhone and iPad users

Elon Musk's X has launched iOS widgets, allowing users to access news, shortcuts, and notifications on their screens. The Home Screen features a single 'X News Highlights' widget, while the Lock Screen offers various widgets, including notifications and Grok AI interactions

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Supernova immersion model suggests Earth-like planets are more common in the universe

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a nearby supernova (the massive explosion of a star near the end of its life) bathed it in cosmic rays containing the radioactive ingredients to make rocky, dry worlds. This mechanism could be ubiquitous across the galaxy.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-supernova-immersion-earth-planets-common.html

45-Year-Old Woman Mauled To Death By Tiger In Maharashtra

A 45-year-old woman was killed by a tiger in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Saturday, officials said.

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Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment

Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical fertilizer to increase their harvest. But new research suggests that there are alternatives that are cheaper and can increase the potential of these grasslands to feed livestock.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fields-farmers-money-environment.html

Pakistan Signs MoU With Binance To Explore Tokenisation of Assets Worth $2 Billion

Pakistan and Crypto exchange Binance signed an MoU to explore tokenisation of assets worth up to $2 billion, aimed at boosting liquidity and attracting global investors.

source https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/pakistan-signs-mou-with-binance-to-explore-tokenisation-of-assets-worth-2-billion

Smarter tools for peering into the microscopic world developed

The microscopic organisms that fill our bodies, soils, oceans and atmosphere play essential roles in human health and the planet's ecosystems. Yet even with modern DNA sequencing, figuring out what these microbes are and how they are related to one another remains extremely difficult.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-smarter-tools-peering-microscopic-world.html

Hidden fuel for ocean microbes: Urea emerges as key energy source for marine ammonia oxidizers

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are some of the most abundant microorganisms in the ocean and play a key role in nitrogen cycling. Yet, despite their ubiquity, scientists have long puzzled over how these microbes can flourish in the nutrient-poor waters of the open ocean, where their main nitrogen and energy source, ammonium, is often vanishingly scarce.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hidden-fuel-ocean-microbes-urea.html

LHC delivers a record number of particle collisions in 2025

All experiments broke records in the final full operating year of the third run of the LHC.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-lhc-particle-collisions.html

Internationally experienced teachers: An overlooked resource to address teaching shortages

The increasing teacher shortage is a concerning global crisis. It will reach a shortfall of 44,000,000 teachers by 2030, according to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-internationally-experienced-teachers-overlooked-resource.html

Estimating the number of flying insects in the US using weather radar

Although millions upon millions of living creatures fly, feed and reproduce in the air, this habitat has hardly been researched. Insects are under increasing pressure worldwide due to global change and human activities. However, until now, evaluating the large scale effects of this pressure has been challenging because insect monitoring focuses mainly on a small number of species and data is collected at local scales.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-flying-insects-weather-radar.html

Weeks After Louvre Jewel Heist, Water Leak Damages 400 Egyptian Artifacts

A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its...

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Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities drive over 90% of engagement on audio social platforms in India, says report

Recent data indicates that audio social platforms in India are experiencing growth primarily from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns. 

source https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/tier-2-and-tier-3-cities-drive-over-90-of-engagement-on-audio-social-platforms-in-india-says-report-11765128908074.html

IndiGo Crisis: Normalcy Restored At Airports After Five Days Of Disruption, Govt Says

Normalcy is gradually being restored at airports across the country and all necessary facilities are provided to passengers, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said late Saturday.

source https://www.ndtvprofit.com/nation/indigo-crisis-normalcy-restored-at-airports-after-three-days-of-disruption-govt-says

Sick ant pupae emit chemical signals to prompt their own destruction

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-sick-ant-pupae-emit-chemical.html

Microplastics in oceans may distort carbon cycle understanding

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, a significant process to curbing climate change or global warming.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-microplastics-oceans-distort-carbon.html

Hydrogel platform enables high-throughput extracellular vesicle isolation

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising frontiers in modern biology. These nano-sized messengers mediate communication between cells, tissues, and organs, influencing processes from immune signaling to cancer progression. Their growing diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic relevance has accelerated research worldwide.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hydrogel-platform-enables-high-throughput.html

Extracellular vesicles: Key to halting aging?

Researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) are a step closer to finding the fountain of youth.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-extracellular-vesicles-key-halting-aging.html

Define your dating goals: Study shows clarity is key to dating satisfaction

Single people who date without a clear understanding of what they are looking for in a relationship experience more loneliness and decreased life satisfaction, McGill researchers have found.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-dating-goals-clarity-key-satisfaction.html

Silver-infused zeolite efficiently separates xenon from krypton for industrial use

An international team of researchers have found a better way to separate two rare and important gases—xenon and krypton—that are often combined in chemical, petrochemical, metallurgical, and environmental processes.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-12-silver-infused-zeolite-efficiently-xenon.html

India Lose To Belgium In Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Final

In an entertaining final, Belgium beat India 1-0 in a closely-fought encounter to lift the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia on Sunday.

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OnePlus Pad Go 2 launching in India on 17 December: Expected price, specifications and more

OnePlus Pad Go 2 will launch in India on 17 December along with the OnePlus 15R. The new tablet will sit somewhere between the OnePlus Pad Lite and the company's flagship OnePlus Pad 3.

source https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/oneplus-pad-go-2-launching-in-india-on-17-december-expected-price-specifications-and-more-11764518968832.html

Drones have changed warfare. Two new weapons might alter its course again

Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain control of opposition air space, neither side has made wide use of traditional air assets such as fast fighter jets, which take much time and money to manufacture and so can't be risked in active operations.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-11-drones-warfare-weapons.html