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Agriculture in Africa: Science and research can’t make an impact without investment and good policies

Agriculture in Africa: Science and research can’t make an impact without investment and good policies

Pape Abdoulaye Seck

5 hours ago

3 min read

In the end, the impact of science is a collective responsibility

News

The sleep sweet spot: Study links six to eight hours of slumber with slower biological ageing

The sleep sweet spot: Study links six to eight hours of slumber with slower biological ageing

Nandita Banerji

23 hours ago

4 min read

New monitoring system provides ‘scalable approach’ to island conservation in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago

New monitoring system provides ‘scalable approach’ to island conservation in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago

06 May 2026

2 min read

China clones 10 healthy yaks in high-altitude livestock breeding breakthrough

China clones 10 healthy yaks in high-altitude livestock breeding breakthrough

29 Apr 2026

2 min read

Lead author Anastasios Tzanidakis’ rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021.

Astronomers spot rare signs of a possible collision between two young planets

Nandita Banerji

27 Apr 2026

5 min read

Pollinators feel the climate sting: Warmer temperatures are forcing bees and wasps to emerge earlier, but at a cost to their survival

Pollinators feel the climate sting: Warmer temperatures are forcing bees and wasps to emerge earlier, but at a cost to their survival

Himanshu Nitnaware

22 Apr 2026

3 min read

Indigenous knowledge: Researchers decode cancer-fighting potential of traditional Konyak Naga herbal medicine

Indigenous knowledge: Researchers decode cancer-fighting potential of traditional Konyak Naga herbal medicine

13 Apr 2026

2 min read

Artemis II: Humans back to moon after more than 50 years

Artemis II: Humans back to moon after more than 50 years

Akshit Sangomla

02 Apr 2026

3 min read

China could be biggest public spender on science in two years

China could be biggest public spender on science in two years

23 Mar 2026

2 min read

Interviews

Barren Island volcano’s activity is purely due to magmatic processes: Hetu Sheth

Barren Island volcano’s activity is purely due to magmatic processes: Hetu Sheth

08 Oct 2025

Immanuel Louis (L) and Suyash Bafna

‘We are trying to revolutionise aerospace in the way automakers once revolutionised cars’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

23 Sep 2025

'Biggest problem with India's rooftop solar industry is lack of quality guaranteed by local installer'

‘Biggest problem with India’s rooftop solar industry is lack of quality guarantee on end-to-end product by local installer’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

23 Jul 2025

Screengrab of a brush fire in LA.

Scale of LA fires is unusual compared to emissions from California fires for January over the last 20 years: Mark Parrington

Rohini Krishnamurthy

27 Jan 2025

‘India a laboratory for seismologists’

‘India a laboratory for seismologists’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

25 Jan 2025

The current Digital Data Protection Act is excessively vague: Apar Gupta

Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025 will only be a nominal checkbox: Apar Gupta

Rohini Krishnamurthy

15 Jan 2025

‘Story of human origin is still not figured out or over’

‘Story of human origin is still not figured out or over’

03 Jan 2025

‘Space profoundly alters microbes’

‘Space profoundly alters microbes’

20 Jul 2024

Priya Moorjani, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley (Illustration: Yogendra Anand)

‘Indians have largest variety of Neanderthal, Denisovan genes’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

15 Apr 2024

Image: Custom colormap package by cmastro; Claire Lamman / DESI collaboration

‘We are seeing a sign that dark energy is not a cosmological constant’

Rohini Krishnamurthy

05 Apr 2024

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

Rohini Krishnamurthy

20 Sep 2023

‘There is a fundamental joy in exploring our universe, but it comes with great responsibility’

‘There is a fundamental joy in exploring our universe, but it comes with great responsibility’

26 Aug 2023

Blog

Agriculture in Africa: Science and research can’t make an impact without investment and good policies

Agriculture in Africa: Science and research can’t make an impact without investment and good policies

Pape Abdoulaye Seck

5 hours ago

3 min read

Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable

Iran is threatening undersea cables. The world’s ‘digital chokepoints’ have never been more vulnerable

Meredith Primrose Jones

6 hours ago

3 min read

An ‘open’ and ‘shut’ case of AI’s risky trajectory

An ‘open’ and ‘shut’ case of AI’s risky trajectory

11 May 2026

4 min read

New microbes discovered in corals from the Andaman Sea.

Hidden life in Andaman corals could shape India’s Blue Economy

06 May 2026

3 min read

India must balance AI innovation with environmental integrity

India must balance AI innovation with environmental integrity

05 May 2026

5 min read

A gene hurdle

A gene hurdle

Nandita Banerji

01 May 2026

2 min read

Videos

First crewed moon mission of the 21st century, Artemis II launched successfully

First crewed moon mission of the 21st century, Artemis II launched successfully

03 Apr 2026

1 min read

Preparing for the next Moon landing: Inside NASA’s Artemis II Mission

Preparing for the next Moon landing: Inside NASA’s Artemis II Mission

21 Jan 2026

1 min read

Can we afford space tourism in a rapidly warming, unequal world?

Can we afford space tourism in a rapidly warming, unequal world?

19 Apr 2025

1 min read

Did science just resurrect the prehistoric dire wolf?

Did science just resurrect the prehistoric dire wolf?

12 Apr 2025

1 min read

AI Summit 2025: Safety concerns and an energy-guzzling future

AI Summit 2025: Safety concerns and an energy-guzzling future

14 Feb 2025

2 min read

Why athletes worldwide turn to genetic screening for improved performance

Why athletes worldwide turn to genetic screening for improved performance

30 Jul 2024

1 min read

ISRO launches XPoSat; here is what it is expected to do

ISRO launches XPoSat; here is what it is expected to do

03 Jan 2024

2 min read

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

07 Jan 2024

1 min read

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Books

The catalyst within

The catalyst within

Rohini Krishnamurthy

01 Oct 2025

Book Excerpt: Of algorithms we use and a small town in Bihar

Book Excerpt: Of algorithms we use and a small town in Bihar

11 Jan 2025

All-pervasive AI

All-pervasive AI

Nandita Banerji

27 Jul 2024

Science Tales

Science Tales

Rakesh Kalshian

05 Feb 2020

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- Amina J Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN

Transformative but democratic AI

25 Apr 2026

1 min read

India and the power of ‘Jugaad’

India and the power of ‘Jugaad’

Vikas Choudhary

12 Dec 2025

1 min read

Titles Jupiter Marble (2019), this colour-enhanced view of Jupiter shows the iconic Great Red Spot alongside the swirling turbulence of the southern hemisphere. Made from three images taken during a close pass in February 2019, it highlights the dramatic contrasts in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Citizen scientist Kevin M Gill processed the raw JunoCam data to create the image.

Juno’s last orbit: NASA’s Jupiter mission set to end next month

Nandita Banerji

22 Aug 2025

2 min read

DTE Palette: 4 books you should read this week

DTE Palette: 4 books you should read this week

12 Jul 2025

2 min read

A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300

Hubble telescope turns 35: A celestial celebration in 5 stunning images

Nandita Banerji

25 Apr 2025

3 min read

To worlds afar

To worlds afar

19 Apr 2025

1 min read

The journey of AI

The journey of AI

12 Apr 2025

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Simply Put: Maus

03 May 2024

1 min read

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