"Extinction boom" is a term in evolutionary biology describing the paradoxical surge that sometimes occurs just before a species disappears. When a population exhausts its habitat--too many bodies, ...

As Bihar heads into a high-stakes election, Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta joins Rahul Kanwal to decode the ground reality.

On 29 October 2025, the carefully scripted pageantry of the US-ROK alliance in Gyeongju and Seoul met an unwelcome ...

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

During his four-decade journey as a mathematician, Professor KC Sinha authored about 70 books that helped generations of students make sense of numbers. He now faces a tougher numbers test -- Bihar's ...

Emmanuel Macron now confronts what could very well be an existential crisis of the Fifth Republic. Sébastien Lecornu, Prime Minister number 7, was unable to build a working majority after rolling the ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline -- a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator.

Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav's united show during the "Voter Adhikar Yatra" showcased Mahagathbandhan's unity against the BJP and Election Commission. Despite the apparent bonhomie and mutual ...

This summer, the Trump administration announced trade deals with Japan and the European Union (EU). Each involved lower barriers to U.S. exports, more foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., ...

MUMBAI: Next weekend, some of the top mathematicians from around the world, including a Fields Medal winner or two, will converge in Mumbai to inaugurate the country’s first privately-funded institute ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly bragged about how smart he is, apparently has trouble with basic arithmetic, having asserted a mystifying lie about drug prices several times ...

In Donald Trump’s first term, the president routinely talked about his efforts to lower the costs of prescription medications, but he failed, and drug costs continued to climb. The Republican’s second ...