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 ...

Representative image, of journals stacked on a shelf. Photo: yeaki/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. The story of open access (OA) publishing in India has been a chequered one. While we have had some progress with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luc Montagnier during the TV interview. Photo: YouTube. The 2008 Nobel Laureate for physiology or medicine from France, Luc Antoine Montagnier, caught the media’s attention when he recently endorsed a ...

Featured image: Detail of an illustration from the Arnold Guyot’s influential textbook Physical Geography (1885), which shows even desert areas such as Egypt as being well populated with a variety of ...

Representative image of the human brain: Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash. The gang-rape and murder of the 19-year-old woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by four upper caste men, has sparked outrage ...

Students of IISER Pune next to the strontium-based optical atomic clock’s setup. Photo: IISER Pune. Pune/Bengaluru: Two Pune-based premier research institutes, the Inter-University Centre for ...

The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. Publishers have already anticipated new trends and have tried to protect their profits.

Representative image. Photo: cotton/Pexels. This article is based on our current research, for which my peers and I engaged with patients receiving treatment under publicly financed health insurance ...

A close view of the keezharnelli plant. Photo: Deepugn/Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Kochi: A person who worked in the multimedia industry, and was keen on protecting herself from illnesses that ...