Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helmsman S. Somanath’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern scientific discoveries and understanding have gained far greater currency after ...

For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometres long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been cleared annually in recent years, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

Many leading Indian scientists dismiss science journals published in India. They send their research to only the top journals, which are generally published in the US, UK, or Europe. They say they owe ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

A very small fraction of India’s science education centres facilitate equitable access to various spaces for people of different genders. This pattern is especially acute with student hostels – where ...

In three recent cases, the Madras and the Uttarakhand high courts invoked parens patriae to confer rights on natural elements like rivers and glaciers. Parens patriae conceives of nature as a ...

Honesty is a virtue in science because it is essential for the satisfaction of curiosity; it is a practiced disposition that is important for discovering truths about the natural world. Sometimes ...