Researchers Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for work that has revolutionised how scientists study the electron – by illuminating molecules ...
Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helmsman S. Somanath’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern scientific discoveries and understanding have gained far greater currency after ...
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 ...
About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been cleared annually in recent years, contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous ...
Chandigarh: India’s energy requirements are spiking. Electricity consumption has more than doubled since the year 2000. And this trend is only likely to continue. India’s latest National Electricity ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A part of a visualisation of the Riemann zeta function in the complex plane. The Re(½) line passes vertically through the middle. Plot: Nschlow/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Euclid found long ago ...
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 ...
Isn’t it better to shave ideas down to their essential truths? Ockham’s razor sounds logical and definitive, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. Not only is the assumption of simplicity often ...
It’s very likely that, even with the best intentions, a large human presence on another world like Mars will produce substantial amounts of garbage. The best that we can do is to figure out the least ...
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