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Nov 26, 2022 04:51 PM ISTCambridge university publishes surviving Charles Darwin correspondence online
The entire collection covers more than 15,000 letters written between 1822 and 1882
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Nov 26, 2022 04:03 PM IST 'World's oldest meal' discovered by scientists. Why it matters
A team from the Australian National University shares some astonishing new insights.
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Nov 26, 2022 12:23 PM IST Indonesia, Turkey, China, Mexico, Afghanistan: Why So Many Earthquakes? | World News
News of an earthquake in some part of the world is popping up every now and then… But why is it so? Is the frequency of earthquakes really rising? Or it is just a temporary cluster? Find out every detail in this video!
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Nov 20, 2022 07:47 AM IST Siddhartha Mukherjee's 'The Song of The Cell' book review: What connects all life forms
Siddhartha Mukherjee's new book, a deep-dive into the mysteries and marvels of the tiny biological cell, is a monumental addition to the small but solid genre of medical non-fiction.
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Nov 17, 2022 06:22 PM IST Climate change contributed to deadly West African floods, scientists find
The floods, which killed more than 600 people in Nigeria and more than 200 in Niger and Chad, were the consequence of an extremely wet rainy season.
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Nov 02, 2022 07:20 AM IST How science can fix a different oil imbalance in India
There is, however, another imported oil the South Asian nation is addicted to: the one used for cooking. Indian kitchens spend $19 billion annually on Indonesian palm, Ukrainian sunflower and Argentinian soybean oil.
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Oct 15, 2022 04:57 PM IST APJ Abdul Kalam’s birthday | Anand Mahindra shares his favourite photo of him: ‘Eyes looking into future’
APJ Abdul Kalam: India's former president and renowned scientist was born on October 15, 1931.
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Oct 03, 2022 03:07 PM IST Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize 2022 in Physiology or Medicine
Svante Pääbo has been given the top honour “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution", an official statement said.
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Sep 10, 2022 10:01 AM IST Book review: The whys have it
In seven quick chapters, scientist Justin Gregg unpacks how humans are 'why' specialists, and why we would do well not to consider our intelligence superior to other animals'.
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Sep 07, 2022 07:17 PM IST This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How.
These miniature jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, wave and grasp with their pale tentacles, bringing plankton to their mouths, as do many other jellyfish species adrift in the glowing water.
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Aug 30, 2022 06:20 PM IST IISc's virus like particle may lead to new COVID-19 vaccine
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore have created and tested a brand-new COVID-19 vaccine candidate that resembles the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Aug 28, 2022 05:14 PM IST Two-thirds of Delhi govt schools not teaching science in classes 11-12: RTI
The Education Department of the Delhi government gave the information in response to an application filed under the Right To Information (RTI) Act on behalf of PTI. The RTI sought information on the number of Delhi government schools teaching science and commerce subjects in classes 11 and 12 as well as the number of new schools opened by the government between February 2015 and May 2022 in the city.
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Aug 27, 2022 04:58 PM IST Some Monkeys Use Stone Tools for Pleasure, Study Suggests
The study is based on observations of a population of free-ranging, long-tailed macaques that live in or near the Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Ubud, a Balinese town in Indonesia, where the animals regularly receive food from humans.
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Aug 19, 2022 06:50 PM IST The Juicy Secrets of Stars That Eat Their Planets
Stars come in many varieties, including simmering dwarfs and brilliant hypergiants. The life expectancy and ultimate fate of a star — and, therefore, any planets orbiting it — is tied to its mass: Red dwarfs may live for trillions of years, whereas massive stars blow up within a few million.
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Jul 27, 2022 03:43 PM IST Gujarat govt announces Semiconductor Policy, offers incentives for investment in sector
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel unveiled the 'Gujarat Semiconductor Policy’, will remain in force till 2027, state Science and Technology Minister Jitu Vaghani said in a statement.
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Jul 24, 2022 06:41 AM IST Depression is probably not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain – new study
If you’re taking antidepressants, it’s very important you don’t stop doing so without speaking to your doctor first. But people need all this information to make informed decisions.
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Jul 23, 2022 06:03 PM IST Tech Mahindra, Mahindra University to set up lab for Metaverse, quantum computing
In order to establish a new "Makers Lab" for research and development in quantum computing, explainable artificial intelligence, and the Metaverse,Tech Mahindra and Mahindra University have signed a memorandum of understanding.
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Jul 17, 2022 11:01 AM IST 6 ways governments drive innovation and how they can help post-pandemic resilience
Policymakers and leaders in science and industry are pinning their hopes on further innovation to drive economic recovery.
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Jul 15, 2022 09:59 PM IST US, Russian astronauts will ride each other's rockets again
U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio will launch to the space station from Kazakhstan with two Russians in September. That same month, Russian cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, will join two Americans and one Japanese aboard a SpaceX rocket flying from Florida.
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Jul 12, 2022 09:17 PM IST NASA's new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies
Webb's use of the infrared light spectrum allows the telescope to see through the cosmic dust and see light from faraway light from the corners of the universe
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Jul 09, 2022 11:18 AM IST Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: The Man Who Bent Light by Narinder Singh Kapany
The fusion of ‘science as a universal need’ and ‘religion as a universal truth but private practice’ emerges beautifully from this book. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars
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Jul 05, 2022 03:04 PM IST JNCASR researchers discover 'new material' that can convert infrared light into renewable energy
The material can emit, detect, and modulate infrared light with high efficiency making it useful for "solar and thermal energy harvesting and for optical communication devices", the government said.
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Jun 26, 2022 10:06 PM IST Dead Roaches That Ate Moon Dust Went Up for Auction. Then NASA Objected
A few German cockroaches that had been fed the lunar diet ended up in the laboratory of Marion Brooks, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota. She found no evidence that the moon dust was toxic to the cockroaches, according to an article in The Star Tribune of Minneapolis from Oct. 6, 1969.
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Jun 24, 2022 12:29 PM IST Startup in Bengal develops a device to produce oxygen from water
The device was selected by the Department of Biotechnology for showcasing and launch on its 10th foundation day and at the 1st Bio-Tech Expo 2022.
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Jun 13, 2022 01:13 PM IST 'Abnormal' dinosaur egg discovered in Madhya Pradesh. What it means for evolution
An egg belonging to a titanosaurid dinosaur was found nested in another one at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district.
