How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as the Sun’s surface for billions of years?

Even now, moving plates keep changing the surface of the Earth, constantly making new lands and new oceans over millions and billions of years

Ukraine War: CERN has shortened runs; policy on publications involving Russian scientists ‘very soon’, says expert

We would like to remain neutral to keep science above politics, senior scientist at the CERN lab said

Investments in basic needs, education & modern tech should be India’s focus in the next 25 years: Experts

Currently, only 3% of India’s GDP goes into education

How do you vaccinate a honeybee? 6 questions answered about a new tool for protecting pollinators

Honeybees face many urgent threats, including Varroa mites, climate change and poor nutrition, which makes this vaccine an exciting new development

IISF 2023: The India International Science Festival begins in Bhopal

The theme of the four-day festival is Marching towards Amrit Kaal with Science, Technology, and Innovation.  

Fourth industrial revolution: ‘4IR alone not a solution’

Technology can deny work to a population or it can liberate them. Outcome depends on how we organise technology use

Fourth Industrial Revolution: What is it all about?

A collection of DTE articles on the ongoing use of technologies to blur the boundaries between the digital, physical and biological worlds

Fourth industrial revolution: ‘4IR critical for India’

India has a well thought out ecosystem of data and a young population that can be skilled for the new technologies

Fourth industrial revolution: ‘4IR is not real’

The current innovation cycle is not new. It was formulated in the 1980s if not before

India’s vehicle industry needs EV mandate, finds CSE study

The government must bring in regulations that mandate the vehicle industry to have a certain percentage of their production and sales as zero-…

Scientists have started steering lightning with lasers — here’s how

Lightning kills thousands of people annually; only protection we have is lightning rods, which were invented 300 years ago 

Seeing fewer stars? LEDs might be increasing light pollution

New lighting technologies might have increased it by 10% every year in last decade, finds study

Rare dinosaur eggs found in Narmada Valley show how ancient reptiles shared traits with today’s birds: Study

Eggs belong to 6 species, suggesting a higher diversity of these extinct giants in India

Fourth industrial revolution: World Economic Forum advocates it; others fear corporate takeover; who is right

Technology can never exist in isolation; it has to exist within social realities, say critics of 4IR

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune helps detect atomic hydrogen from far-away galaxy

Finding opens up exciting new possibilities for probing the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with low-frequency radio telescopes

Davos 2023: Can AI make wildfire mitigation efficient? WEF’s FireAId initiative shows how

Successful pilot in Turkey reduced both response time and risk to firefighters; can be scaled up: WEF report

ISRO Report: Joshimath sank 5.4 cm in 12 days

The pictures were taken from the Cartosat-2S satellite

Exxon knew: Big Oil’s scientists documented accurate climate predictions since 1970s, 1980s

ExxonMobil publicly denied climate change, funded misinformation campaign, shows new paper

Did the108th Indian Science Congress uphold its theme of women empowerment?

Vedas also found a mention during the conference; general president of the Indian Science Congress Association, said women were empowered during …

Bubble of secrets: Here’s what the new 3D map of a gigantic cosmic cavity tells us about the universe

The ‘Local Bubble’ is a 1,000-light-year-wide cavity or a superbubble around the Sun

Roman secret to durable architecture? Self-healing concrete

Quicklime, pozzolanic material ‘hot-mixed’ to make concrete can endure for millenia; It can also help reduce environment …

Over 200 newly discovered stars redefine outer limits of Milky Way: Researchers

Some stars are 320 kiloparsecs away; previous estimates put the stellar halo at 300 kiloparsecs from the galactic centre

New reactor powered by sun can convert plastic, CO2 into fuel

Cambridge researchers find way to turn PET plastic bottles and carbon dioxide into sustainable fuels like CO, syngas or formate

India’s tryst with numbers is an old one

As the 108th Science Congress ends January 7, an excerpt from Amir D Azcel’s 2015 book, ‘Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s …

Why are there fewer women on India’s science scene? Data needed to answer that, say experts

Social and natural scientists have to come together to work on why women are less represented in Indian science