Sensitive ones

A spin on black hole

The apple holds ground

Gravity works between bodies kept at minute distances, just the way Newton calculated

Bigger yet

Final equation

The value of gravitational constant is influenced by Earth's magnetic field

What a nerve!

Scientists turn skin cells into nerves and immune cells

Talking to aliens

Moral of science

Surviving in a battlefield

Wishes grow on cellulose

Here is one battery that will revolutionize the use of paper

Cell sensor

Frog egg helps robot sniff pollution

The big aftershock

Quake activates nearby faults, triggers more quakes

Searing thirst

Do not water your plants under a fiercely glaring sun

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

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

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

Immortality is mathematically impossible, new research finds

A mathematical equation has proven that controlling one of the two major changes in a cell—decay or cancerous growth—enhances the …

Overwhelmingly WEIRD!

The edifice of Western science is built on generalisation, where homogeneity has replaced diversity

Fabric of the byte

The development of technology and its relations with society and culture hold contemporary lessons for India

History of rational thoughts

Efforts by rationalists to spread scientific thinking have been scuttled by those in positions of power throughout history

Satellite link

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Rock-hard sandwiches

Thin film, no more than a few microns thick, can endow substances with hardness, magnetic, superconducting and optical properties

What shaped human intelligence?

Scientists are trying to uncover the adaptive pressures that transformed primates into intelligent humans

A quest for the best

A combination of optical microscopes and magnetic drives might be the answer to today's problems of data storage

New light on black holes

Researchers almost catch a glimpse of the ravenous vortexes in the Universe which don't even let light escape their gravitational grip