The right measure

Kilogramme's mass redefined

Debate over pseudoscience in China

Science Awards

A momentous bang

Mapping the sky

Under the chip

Protein-wired

Devanagri neuro-deciphered

The Indian script is complex, the brain works hard to read it

Who winds body clock?

Scientists discover protein that helps plants, animals mark time

Track trends

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies  

Himalayas on the move

The Indian plate is heavy and steadily sinking under Eurasia  

Are you a more holistic or analytic thinker? Take this quiz to find out

Analytic thinkers focus on individual objects, assigning them to categories based on their attributes. Holistic thinkers consider the context as …

International Women’s Day: Female biologists bring much-needed perspective to science

Scientific fields have not only overlooked female researchers, but have also overlooked research into female biology, both of humans and animals

Farmers discuss tech innovations at 107th India Science Congress

The farmers were participating in a Farmer’s Science Congress organised at the ongoing event being held in Bengaluru

Why science matters so much in the era of fake news and fallacies

Science and facts are the foundational basis for rational and logical disputation and the possibility of reaching some truths

Early warning system to predict dengue possible by mining data

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun, attempted to estimate how weather conditions can lead to a more severe …

Beyond DNA

Maurizio Meloni's book is a fascinating social and political history of human heredity spanning over 150 years

Water, water, everywhere in our Solar system but what does that mean for life?

It should be no surprise that water played a key role in the formation and evolution of our planetary system

From the world to worlds

Orbits of TRAPPIST-1’s seven plant system are compact, yet they are not roasted wastelands like Mercury

DNA and grey cells

Book>> GENES, CELLS AND BRAINS, THE PROMETHEAN PROMISES OF THE NEW BIOLOGY • by Hillary Rose and Steven Rose • Verso • Rs 1,550

Our complex world

Book>> The quantum universe, everything that can happen can happen •Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw • Allen Lane • Rs 699

Rock stars

Book>> Written in Stone, the Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth • by Brian Switek • Icon Books • Rs 5,499

Debates on atom

Book>> The Age Of Entanglement, When Quantum Physics Was Reborn • by Louisa Gilder • Alfred A Knopf • Rs 650

Physics journal fosters spirit of enquiry

Physical Review, which began in 1893 as a monthly journal of indifferent repute, has evolved into a standard for the international physics community.

New stars on the horizon

An exciting new discovery might lead to a confirmation of the presence of the farthest known galaxy