Science
On scientific collaborations in BRICS
The BRICS grouping, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is a globally significant collective defined by its substantial…
Bibha Chowdhuri: a barrier breaker in STEM
A young girl was born in the early 1900s in Kolkata, an era when girls were barely given an education…
How red marks liminal thresholds between life, death, sacrifice and renewal
In 1823, English geologist William Buckland discovered a skeleton in a limestone cave in Paviland, southern Wales, which he identified…
Government clears 23 institutions to set up ‘quantum labs’
National Quantum Mission logo. Photo: dst.gov.in/national-quantum-mission-nqm Twenty-three academic institutions across India have been approved for setting up quantum teaching laboratories…
Government clears 23 institutions to set up ‘quantum labs’
Image for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Twenty-three academic institutions across India have been approved for setting…
Ice patches on melting glaciers greater threat than thought: ISRO scientists
A new study by scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), published in NPJ Natural Hazards, examines the August…
The environment, another casualty of war in West Asia
Fire and plumes of smoke rise from an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, on March 14, 2026. |…
Science Snapshots: March 15, 2026
Why do ripening bananas produce such a unique aroma? | Photo Credit: Alistair Smailes/Unsplash Test disfavours acrylonitrile cells in Titan…
Failure of atomic clock cripples ISRO’s NavIC system
The NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) and GPS (Global Positioning System) logos, along with a satellite model, are shown on…
Remembering Rosalind Franklin, whose photograph was crucial to discovering DNA’s structure
For a discipline so wedded to reason and fact as science is, it has fiendishly guarded its gender bias. Over…