India has come to a critical juncture in its innovation journey. First times ever In 2023, majority of patent filings in the country were filed by Indian applicants — surpassing each single foreign nations. This wave represents a significant departure from the country’s traditional role as a technology consumer.

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design a new kind of antibiotic that can kill a wide range of dangerous bacteria — including some drug-resistant microbes that are already killing patients. This breakthrough provides a powerful new weapon in the war against antimicrobial resistance, which has taken an estimated one million lives globally.

India’s fight against snakebite envenoming has hit a major roadblock: a one-size-fits-all antivenom, that doesn’t work in certain areas. Health experts and herpetologists are now calling for region-specific antivenoms, particularly in the case of Northeastern India, where the locally found snakes are different from the rest of the country.

An outbreak of rare, brain-damaging virus has left scores of children dead in India, and a deeper health crisis has emerged. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Three cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis this year, two of them fatal, caused some swimming holes and ponds to be closed to swimmers in recent months. That makes the state tally eight cases and two deaths so far in 2025.

A landmark study has revealed the first-ever global map showing the true levels of "biodiversity" on the driest continents, and provides an invaluable tool in the fight to protect the world's rarest species. This discovery contradicts the longstanding assumption that which species occur in each region was idiosyncratic and unpredictable.