Is India moving towards a mass surveillance state
India is building one of the largest facial recognition technology systems in the world
Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity
The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere
IISF 2019: Health conclave multitude of issues
Rampant use of antibiotics in focus
ICAR researchers produce coconut palm plantlets using tissue culture
The study will have applications for the farming community
Big data on weather
Why private players are competing with governments
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
Green Schools Programme Awards 2024
CSE’s Green Schools Programme Awards recognise schools that are the best managers of their natural resources within their own premises
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 …
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
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
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
This new protein may help diabetes patients with fractures
Diabetes patients are more susceptible to bone fractures and take longer than usual to heal
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 …
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 …
‘Increased representation of women, ethnic groups not enough to overcome biases in STEM’
Down to Earth speaks to Meena Balagopal, educational researcher and ecologist, CSU, on gender bias and racism in STEM disciplines
Why some people don’t trust science — and how to change their minds
Merely informing people about facts has been found not to change attitudes
On loony ideas
Why do some ‘crazy’ endeavours click while others don’t? Safi Bahcall’s book probes the underlying mechanics
Mango leaf extract can prevent steel from corroding: Study
In a bid to develop a ‘green’ alternative, researchers from the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, …
Brightest, most distant radio signal detected till now has a rare source — a group of merging galaxies
A fast radio burst that occurred when the universe was just 5 billion years old was detected in 2022