Climate Change Means Erratic Monsoons, and Erratic Monsoons Come at a High Cost by Siddhant Gokhale 14/05/2020 4 mins Read 0 Shares Environment ...

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 ...

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 fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

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 Andaman & Nicobar administration published an EIA for a port, an airport, a township and a gas-cum-solar power plant, all on Great Nicobar, on December 29. But the “comprehensive” EIA is short, ...

A warehouse in Kyiv on fire after a Russian missile strike. Photo: Dsns.gov.ua/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has been highly damaging, not only in terms of civilian ...

Ants in the genus Oecophylla produce silk but don’t spin cocoons for themselves. Instead, they donate all their silk for the communal nests of their colonies. How did the ants attain this level of ...

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 ...

The PFBR under construction at Kalpakkam Nuclear Complex, Tamil Nadu, 2015. Photo: IAEA Imagebank/Petr Pavlicek. New Delhi: On March 5, in response to a question in Parliament, the Union minister of ...

If you care about the environment, you’ve heard about carbon calculators, the digital tools that allow people to calculate their carbon footprint – a measurement of how much carbon dioxide – ...

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 ...