Week ending 27 September 2026

Juice’s journey began almost 3.5 years ago, with its April 2023 launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

To avoid needing enormous amounts of fuel to get it onto the right final track, Juice will make two further flybys of Earth.

This interaction will set it up for a final Earth flyby in January 2029, putting Juice onto the optimum path to intercept Jupiter in July 2031.

When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater in September 2023, mission scientists were surprised by what they found.

Called the “Margin Unit,” the geologic area stretches along the shoreline of an ancient Martian lake, so they expected sedimentary rocks, which would have formed as layers of sand piled on top of each other over millennia.

Igneous rocks are excellent record-keepers, particularly because mineral crystals within them preserve details about the precise moment they formed.

First, in July, the firm announced that its models had hacked the AI hub Hugging Face, a collaborative platform where users share models and data sets.

Leaders of AI firms, including OpenAI, have outlined fears that giving models free rein to boost their own capabilities, through a fully autonomous version of a process known as recursive self-improvement, could result in humans losing control over the technology.

Chen sat down with Nature to discuss how AI will affect science, along with the firm’s pivot towards safety.

Four months after India’s new online gaming law took effect, the government informed the Central Information Commission (CIC) that not a single game has been formally registered under the law, while complaints against the sector continue to increase, The New Indian Express reported.

What registration would have looked like: The draft rules notified by MeitY aim to regulate online gaming, promote e-sports and social games, and ensure user safety through a structured grievance redressal mechanism.

Attendees joining after the start time should be aware that the presentation may be being recorded.

Talks will usually reserve a period for more open questions after the talk, during the final part.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) announced on September 23 that it has initiated penal action against Amazon, Swiggy Instamart, BigBasket, Flipkart India, and Zepto for non-compliance.

The Meghalaya High Court has held that touching the breast of a child with sexual intent constitutes “sexual assault” under Section 7 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act), even in the absence of penetration.

The Court observed that the statutory definition expressly covers sexual-intent physical contact with the breast of a child and upheld the conviction of a man under Section 9(n) read with Section 10 of the POCSO Act, despite the survivor and other witnesses stating that there was no penetrative sexual assault.

In its September 15 counter-comments to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) consultation on amendments to the 2024 Quality of Service (QoS) regulations, Jio opposed mandatory prior notification of network slicing and restrictions based on an 80% Physical Resource Block (PRB) utilisation threshold.

Airtel similarly opposed TRAI’s proposed 21-day advance notification requirement, arguing that it could delay enterprise deployments, emergency services and other specialised applications requiring rapid network configuration.

The trial court had earlier restricted the YouTuber from publishing any content about Emami Limited’s product, “Zandu Ashwagandha Gold Plus”, after he published a video detailing a scientific laboratory’s findings of higher levels of lead and mercury that could endanger the health of individuals if consumed.

A Division Bench of Justices Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Sandip Kumar De quashed this order on September 22, 2026.

The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the mere fact that a husband made repeated visits to his wife's parental home or issued a legal notice expressing willingness to resume matrimonial cohabitation cannot, by itself, establish that the wife's refusal to return was without reasonable cause under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

The wife, however, alleged that she had been subjected to ill-treatment, manhandling and demands for a Creta car and ₹5 lakh in cash by the husband and his family members.

During the build and packaging process, normaliz's built-in test was found to get stuck in a loop that it could not exit, causing the packaging to time out.

China Capital, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in collaboration with 23 media partners, provided an unprecedented look into decision-making at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, one of the most powerful Chinese institutions, at a time of China’s ascendance on the world stage.

While investigating, they found a scan of a dozen links from a public link shortener, where each link redirected to a page that displayed a base64-encoded code fragment, as well as the ID of the next link.

The Gujarat High Court has held that a first appeal against a civil suit decree which was earlier admitted, numbered and later transferred by the high court to the trial court pursuant to enactment of Gujarat Civil Courts Act retains its original status and is not barred by limitation.

The court was hearing State's second appeal against a 2009 judgment by Additional District Judge, Sabarkantha which had dismissed the appellant's first appeal and confirmed the order passed by the trial court in 1984.

Because ecDNA segregates randomly during cell division, it drives substantial intratumoural heterogeneity2,3.

Polθ inhibitors were applied only after Cre-mediated recombination was complete, ensuring that all ecDNA present was pre-existing and no new copies could arise.

Labelling was confirmed by live-cell microscopy in 35 mm no.

A coalition of conservation organisations have urged Vantara to make its temporary moratorium on wild animal imports permanent, warning that a time-limited pause could actually spur stockpiling by traffickers.

Vantara, meanwhile, has said that future imports will require animals to come from registered or CITES-accredited facilities, and will comply with a government Standard Operating Procedure still awaited from a Supreme Court-mandated process.

Description: Check Point Security Gateway and Check Point Spark Firewall using Site to Site VPN or Remote Access VPN contain an improper certificate validation vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the Gateway.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Description: WSO2 API Control Plane, API Manager, Traffic Manager & Universal Gateway contain a path traversal vulnerability that could allow for unrestricted file upload and lead to remote code execution.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Justice Uday Kumar made the observation while dismissing a criminal revision petition filed by a husband challenging orders of a Magistrate permitting continuation of maintenance proceedings concerning his major son, who suffers from 70% to 75% orthopaedic disability.

The case arose from maintenance proceedings initiated in 2005 by Tumpa Pramanick against her husband, Samit Pramanick, under Section 125 CrPC, seeking maintenance for herself and their minor son, Sudipta Pramanick.

In reality, service charges should always form part of the investment calculation because they will affect both your annual expenditure and, in some cases, how attractive the property is to future buyers.

If the developer confirmed that the account currently receiving payments is not yet the approved regulatory account, it is understandable that owners would seek reassurance regarding how those funds are being safeguarded and whether they will ultimately be transferred into the prescribed account once registration is complete.

Females can grow to about 2cm in body length, making it one of the largest spiders found in the UK.

Although they are not dangerous to humans, they often attack and cannibalise their mates during or after copulation.

Males usually reach only about a quarter of the length of the females and studies have found that up to 80% die after their first mating attempt while the rest die after their second.

Single-cell approaches that facilitate analysis of the molecular changes that occur within individual cells have been particularly helpful in understanding the interplay between the different cell types found within complex tissues, as well as the roles of those cells in various disease contexts.

After per-library count matrices were generated, cell by gene counts were aggregated into a single count matrix, which has 8,898,978 cells by 60,605 genes.

After probe hybridization, the samples were rinsed with PBST and incubated with Xenium post hybridization wash buffer at 37 °C for 30 min.

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that an order modifying an interim direction in a pending writ petition, while keeping the substantive issues open for adjudication, does not constitute a “judgment” within the meaning of Clause 12 of the Letters Patent and is therefore not amenable to an intra-court appeal.

The order merely modified an earlier interim restraint while expressly keeping the tender finalisation subject to the result of the writ petition.

The Delhi High Court has held that parties are entitled to a full refund of court fees when a suit, counter-claim or appeal is disposed of upon an amicable settlement.

A Division Bench comprising Justice Anil Khetarpal and Justice Bharat Parashar observed that such a refund is a substantive statutory entitlement under the amended Section 16 of the Court Fees Act, 1870.