Taming the wild one

Cures trapped in troubles

More virulent form of diseases could be the future babies of ineffective medicines

Blacklisted

US tops pollution charts

The first Sinophile

Book>> The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester Harper Collins, New York 2008

Talking to aliens

Moral of science

Babies can tell nice guys

Paperless village office

Change is needed

Its always about DNA

Blood is the clue, its genes are the target for curing diseases

Gravity deniers after

The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day

The accretion disc around J0529-4351 is seven light years across, is a gateway to a place of no return

New scientific social responsibility policy in the offing

Draft policy builds upon traditions of earlier policies: Scientific Policy Resolution 1958, Technology Policy Statement 1983, Science and …

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&…

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

Quake Escape

Geoscientist Harsh Gupta speaks to Dinsa Sachan on the need for an  early warning system for  earthquakes  

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

Love Thy Planet: That is the key takeaway from the news that Earth’s inner core has stopped turning

This might be the planet’s way of telling us that it is our only home in the vast universe

Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state. But there is a darker side to this quest for global freedom

For the moment at least, digital nomadism is a privilege which largely depends on your place of birth, long-term place of residence, and economic …

Are you interested in the weather and its impact on nature? Here’s a career for you

Biometeorology is highly interdisciplinary and involves working with several different types of professionals

Offering long-distance lessons to fight lockdown disruptions

An educational non-profit virtually connects rural children with teachers who can instruct in their native language

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics — here’s how his research on complex systems changed science

I am pleasantly surprised that the field of complex systems, which is quietly pushing at the frontier of theoretical research in physics, has …

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