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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walter Tschinkel has been exploring the relationships between ant nest size, architecture, ant size, colony size, lifestyle and division of labour. His work has shown that we can eventually construct ...

Debal Deb began conserving indigenous varieties of rice in the 1990s after realising that they were losing cultivation ground to other varieties preferred by the Green Revolution. In an extended ...

Flamingoes and waders in a wetland area of Navi Mumbai. Photo: Shawn Dsouza/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Just as forests are called as the ‘lungs of the earth’, wetlands are the ‘kidneys’ that regulate ...

As the COVID-19 outbreak in India swelled earlier this year, there were reports of people dumping the bodies of those who had succumbed to the disease in the river. A new book coauthored by the ...

A detail of an Aeonium tabuliforme plant from Gothenburg, Sweden, displaying a Fibonacci spiral pattern. Photo: Max Ronnersjö/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Many indocentric claims about the ...

The International Energy Agency published a report entitled ‘Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022’ last month. It said that the rapid economic growth in most Southeast Asian countries since 2000 is now ...

Fishers Die at Sea. Their Insurance Falls Through the Cracks. This article has been removed following an ex parte injunction of a court in Telangana, delivered following a petition filed by Bharat ...