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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most well-known quantum communications application is quantum key distribution, which allows someone to securely distribute encryption keys.

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 ...

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 following article is an extended excerpt from ‘Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free’, a report prepared by researchers with the Basic Research Community for Physics (BRCP). It was ...

An illustration of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the December 1892 edition of The Adventure of the Silver Blaze. Source: Strand Magazine, public domain The mysterious root poison devil’s foot root ...

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 ...

Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Narendra Modi announced the rollout of booster doses.

Infectious disease spillover between animals and humans is a two-way street – but few scientists focus on disease transmission from humans to animals.

On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month. While the ...

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 ...