GM Mustard, Joshimath: Gagging scientists is a lousy idea; here’s why

Science needs to be open; the silencing of experts by the Modi regime on critical issues is against the public interest

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

Simply Put: Fate of scientists

Scientists discover two species of few-electron bubbles in superfluid helium

The FEBs can serve as a useful model to study how the energy states of electrons and interactions between them in a material influence its properties

Breaking the science glass ceiling: Four African women share what it took

Bias at workplace to lack of opportunities, what four African scientists dealt with to forge a career in STEM

From permafrost microbes to survivor songbirds: Research projects are also victims of COVID-19

Ornithologists are committed to determining why North America lost 3 bln birds in last 50 years, and seamless records of individual birds’ …

‘There could be a racist backlash to the current anti-racism movements’

Race science has been used to justify colonial occupation, slavery, genocide; it became so ingrained that we still live with its devastating …

Einstein's Century

How international scientific collaborators sideline African researchers

Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa writing research papers on health in their own countries are often not named first or senior author, finds a study

No evidence of rift between Einstein and Bose: New book

As long as they lived, there was no sign of a sour relationship between the two, says historian Rajinder Singh who recently wrote a book titled …

Biggest hunt for highly intelligent aliens yields no results

The search was conducted as part of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative which kicked off in 2015

Mangrove fungi that munches on polythene

Isolated from India’s West Coast, the fungi can potentially help degrade polythene

New graphene-based material developed for medical implants

Biometallic implants have become popular as a means to repair, restructure or replace damaged or diseased parts in orthopaedic and dental procedures

Scientists synthesise cannabis like products in lab

The developed chemicals' commercial use is limited since it is difficult to procure sufficient quantities of marine sources for their isolation

Simply put: Number of scientists advising NGT reduced to 2 from 20

Now, a technology that can make reading latent fingerprints faster

Since this new nanomaterial is luminescent, it highlights fingerprints, which can be captured by UV lamps and then reconstructed

Scientists work towards inducing human hibernation to treat diseases

With this, suspended animation may become ubiquitous in modern medicine sometime in the near future

Why there are fewer women in science

This field and participation of women in it is a reflection of society, which hasn’t considered investing time or money in the gender’…

Connect with people, PM tells scientists

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the scientific community at the inauguration of the 106th session of the India Science Congress

India to send manned mission to space within 40 months

This feat has only been achieved by three countries till now—the United States, Russia and China

Here is what Indian scientists achieved in 2018

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

Findings reveal how neem cells produce useful chemicals

The study of limonoid biosynthesis in neem tree is of potential significance as it produces agriculturally and pharmacologically important molecules

Now, a way to diagnose ovarian cancer early

Australian scientists develop a blood test that can “dramatically improve” early detection of the disease

Cellulose nanofibres from bagasse can help in controlled release of pesticides

This could pose as a solution to the growing problem of micro-plastic pollution

How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery

UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision