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 ...

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 ...

As the COVID-19 outbreak in India swelled earlier this year, there were reports of people dumping the bodies of those who had succumbed to the disease in the river. A new book coauthored by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of professionals in the field of modern medicine. The diseases of other organ systems are usually deemed to be more important than a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...