COVID-19 vaccines: How Pfizer and Moderna’s 95% effective mRNA shots work

Should we expect the pandemic to be over once a vaccine is available for public use? Not exactly. A vaccine will not be perfect, and it takes …

How Tanzania’s spousal escort policy frustrates antenatal healthcare

Only 51% Tanzanian women make four or more visits during their entire pregnancy, according to a report 

Indian Science Congress showcases innovations for a smarter home

Exhibits include gas stove that can be timed to turn off; a clothesline that protects clothes from rain

Awareness is key to rejuvenating River Ganga: experts at 105th Indian Science Congress

Besides biodiversity conservation and a forestation programme in Ganga river basin, the experts recommended installation of 113 real-time online …

Satellite to monitor methane emissions not in pipeline, but will be happy to build one: ISRO

ISRO to have a busy year with missions to the sun and moon as well as unmanned spaceflight

In wait for revamp

Researchers and government call for new ideas to revive Indian science yet again. Will it work?

Day 3 of Indian Science Congress: technologies to curb Ganga river pollution revealed

The tanning industry is not only controlling pollutants, but it is also saving 20 per cent of the operational cost

Taking science out of the lab

With science communicators reading out drab and dull power-point presentations, the Indian Science Congress could better emulate the ‘Chai …

How will science aid development in India in near future?

The theme of the 102nd session of the Indian Science Congress—Science and Technology for Human Development—happens to echo the …

'Breakthroughs in material sciences key to sustainable economy'

Peter Littlewood is the associate laboratory director for physical sciences and engineering at the Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. He …

Science, Technology and Innovation policy to be approved at Science Congress

Scientists call the policy draft a set of wishful ideas

How to increase earning from fisheries

Team from from Tripara's College of Fisheries show the way

Indian universities lag behind in scientific research: study

Findings of publishing house Elsevier presented at science meet

Science for people

From launch of India's Mars mission to the humble papaya filter, 2013 witnessed big and small breakthroughs in the field of science

Bill Gates, Grand Challenges and Indian Science Congress

The Bill Gates Foundation has invited Indian innovators to send in their ideas that could change the world. But India needs more solutions to its …

Are our budgets participatory?

Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda

UN heritage status for Odisha's Koraput farming system

Indigenous knowledge and farming practices of the region's tribal people recognised for promoting food security and conserving biodiversity