A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

A view of the Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: Arif Siddiqui/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. At the root of it all is the Khasi pantheistic ...

The authors’ research in multiple cities focuses on spaces of nature and how different people access them – men v. women, privileged v. oppressed caste groups, etc. In Delhi, while conducting surveys ...

An ampoule of remdesivir is pictured at a news conference in Hamburg, Germany, April 2020. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/Pool via Reuters COVID-19 patients suffered debilitating side-effects after receiving ...

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 ...

A woman wearing a mask sits near a near deserted bank of the Ganga river in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in Varanasi, March 20, 2020. Photo: PTI. The Ganga is clean, in some places so clean as ...

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 ...

In contrast to the wonders that the ancients fancied in saliva, and the high esteem with which medical science presently views it, the general public’s attitude in the West has been one of neglect.

Featured image: Representative. Photo: ArtHouse Studio/Pexels. The media is overflowing with news on zoonosis, the medical term for diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. Debates are ...

A farmer burns wheat stubble in a field following the harvest season, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, on the outskirts of Amritsar, May 2020. Photo: PTI. In Punjab and Haryana, the paddy crop ...