An Indian-American boy named Vandan Patel from Georgia, USA, has become part of Mensa International, an organisation comprising high intelligence quotient (IQ) members from around the world. Seven-year-old Vandan wishes to be an astronaut in the future.

Andhra Pradesh’s Amaravati is moving towards becoming the first city in the world to function totally on renewable energy sources such as hydropower and solar energy. This initiative costing ₹65,000 crore aims to produce 2,700 MW of eco-friendly power.

Scientists from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and food scientists and pastry chefs teamed up to create an innovative robotic wedding cake named RoboCake. The cake, featuring edible parts, including batteries, was part of a project called RoboFood backed by the European Union.

The services of popular telecommunications application Skype were discontinued by Microsoft on May 5 after nearly two decades. The application, which was bought by Microsoft in 2011, was overshadowed by the emergence of more innovative applications such as WhatsApp and Zoom.

Bonobos, a type of ape closely related to humans, have surprised scientists with how they communicate. They don’t just make random sounds—they combine calls in special ways to share messages, like asking for food or alerting others, which is like making tiny word sentences! This discovery will help scientists understand how human language may have begun a long, long time ago.