“Behaviour of tiger P243 strengthened the belief that his presence means no harm to cubs. Instead, it showed lots of promise about the safety of the cubs. There is not much knowledge of the cubs’ ...

The carbon footprint and calculator were popularised by Big Oil to shift blame for climate change from industry to the individual. But you can turn the tables and use these tools for good.

Parachute science is rife in palaeontology, and we need to do something about its consequences for the field, scientists say. A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri ...

The NDC Bill 2020 takes an important step in the right direction – and then gets distracted. Photo: worthyofelegance/Unsplash. Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of ...

Schrödinger was deeply moved by the Upanishads. He discussed it with everyone he met and made determined efforts to incorporate it in his life. Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public ...

Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.

Solar panels are considered to be 'green' when they operate, but at the end of their lives, they become very dirty. Photo: Maksym Diachenko/Unsplash Solar energy is a rapidly expanding marketplace ...

Many indocentric claims about the Fibonacci series and the ‘golden ratio’ in mathematics don’t do justice to the actual history of the subject. A detail of an Aeonium tabuliforme plant from Gothenburg ...

In history, bodily fluids enjoyed a high prestige as curative agents for a long time. Image: MIT Press Reader In contrast to the wonders that the ancients fancied in saliva, and the high esteem with ...

Of 3,211 sanctioned posts at 26 labs, 40% were vacant. Of 1,294 vacant posts, more than two in three were scientific posts, says Project 39 A’s Forensic Science India Report. But, a new report on ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

Infectious disease spillover between animals and humans is a two-way street – but few scientists focus on disease transmission from humans to animals. Featured image: Representative. Photo: ArtHouse ...