Technology to generate electricity from water without any energy ready for takeoff
The innovation is now ready for next stage of development and awaiting government's support.
Government launches scheme to attract distinguished scientists from abroad
The objective is to utilise specialised knowledge and technical skills of overseas scientists, including non-resident Indians, people of Indian …
Making sense of sexual swings
Is your sexual preference only a result of your genes or do environment and culture also influence it?
Scientists find nine-million-year-old ape fossils in Himachal Pradesh
Scientists discovered the surprise fossil during an excavation in Haritalyangar in Shiwalik hills region in Himachal Pradesh
How does India look from space at night? NASA has captured beautiful images
Satellite images of Earth at night have always triggered curiosity among people and they are an important tool for environmental research projects
Overwhelmingly WEIRD!
The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity
Influenza: The search for a universal vaccine
Flu virus mutates so quickly that one year's vaccine won't work on the next year's common strains. But a new way to create vaccines, called '…
Captain Cernan leaves planet forever, 44 years after his final walk on moon
Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing
Fabric of the byte
The development of technology and its relations with society and culture hold contemporary lessons for India
Why we shouldn’t mess with nature’s logic about the length of our eyelashes
Very little is known about our eyelashes, but they do serve a purpose. They keep our eyes from drying out and accumulating dirt
Microsoft's dubious ways on piracy
The Mumbai High Court severely censures Microsoft for false claims and suppression of facts in its latest case on software piracy
Book calls for a rethink of capitalism amid the ravages of COVID-19
What is needed, Goldin believes, is a fundamental rethinking of capitalism. Big government and the activist state is back, he says
Day and night aren’t equal length on an equinox — here’s why
The lengths of the day and night aren’t quite the same, and there are two reasons for this
Portal to provide all-inclusive information on SERB sanctioned projects
Portal expected to work as a comprehensive tool to help forge stronger scientist-scientist and science-society connections
Bengaluru ready for 107th India Science Congress
The event is a major focal point for scientists, researchers and academicians interested in various aspects of science discoveries and …
Here is how fake scientific journals are bypassing detection filters
A new study points out that the eco-system of predatory journals is evolving cautiously to bypass standard methods used for their detection
Is Artificial Intelligence excluding Indian women smartphone users?
Making the effort to create solutions that take a gender lens to solution design, can aid digital inclusion for Indian women
This amino acid can help mung bean plants withstand heat stress
Researchers have found that reproductive functions of bean plants reduced upon heat stress and that this damage could be reversed by application …
Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians
Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy
Smart tech will only work for women when the fundamentals for its uptake are in place
If we want to tackle the underlying causes of gender inequality, to build smart and innovate for change, then technology is good
Scientists see link between oxidative stress and neurological disorders
A gene known to play a role in neurological disorders, is also involved in mitigating oxidative stress-induced cell death in brain cells, they find
NASA’s TESS confirms 3 new exoplanets
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), in its search for extra-terrestrial life, recently confirmed the their existence
What would it mean to decolonise palaeontology? Here are some ideas
Nobody knows what decolonised palaeontology will look like but part of it must acknowledge Africa’s original fossil hunters, without&…
This new protein may help diabetes patients with fractures
Diabetes patients are more susceptible to bone fractures and take longer than usual to heal
The story of how Cambridge bounced back
A simple tale of how one of the world’s greatest centres of knowledge got to where it is today