A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. At the root of it all is the Khasi pantheistic ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of professionals in the field of modern medicine. The diseases of other organ systems are usually deemed to be more important than a ...

Fishers Die at Sea. Their Insurance Falls Through the Cracks. This article has been removed following an ex parte injunction of a court in Telangana, delivered following a petition filed by Bharat ...

The theme of these well-researched books aligns with the findings of research papers across various scientific disciplines by reputable scientists, that at some time in the first half of the second ...

Flamingoes and waders in a wetland area of Navi Mumbai. Photo: Shawn Dsouza/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Just as forests are called as the ‘lungs of the earth’, wetlands are the ‘kidneys’ that regulate ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

As the COVID-19 outbreak in India swelled earlier this year, there were reports of people dumping the bodies of those who had succumbed to the disease in the river. A new book coauthored by the ...

A detail of an Aeonium tabuliforme plant from Gothenburg, Sweden, displaying a Fibonacci spiral pattern. Photo: Max Ronnersjö/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Many indocentric claims about the ...