A very small fraction of India’s science education centres facilitate equitable access to various spaces for people of different genders. This pattern is especially acute with student hostels – where ...

This ground report is the first of two about a community’s religious beliefs and their role in conservation, explored through the community members’ lived experiences. The people of the Monpa belt of ...

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 ...

Post-truth is pre-fascist. — Timothy Snyder, The American Abyss It is twilight time for democracy. In the world’s oldest and most populous liberal democracies, the United States and India respectively ...

In the late nineteenth century, industrialising Europe was the epicentre of what Max Weber famously named the “disenchantment of the world”. Yet the famous Weber quote often omits the second part of ...

The people of Gondalpura are protesting against a proposed mining project by Adani Entreprises Limited as they would lose agricultural land and be displaced. In November 2021, they resolved not to ...

Even if small differences exist between the brains of male and female individuals, the two are similar for the most part. So why are the differences highlighted more often? A 2021 paper found that ...

Thermal power plants have resisted implementing new emissions standards by repeatedly seeking extensions to the compliance deadline – and the environment ministry has allowed these extensions. Data ...

The American myrmecologist, naturalist and writer Edward Osborne Wilson passed away on December 26, 2021. Wilson’s philosophy was “Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general ...

Photo: Jan Huber/Unsplash 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 ...

COVID-19 patients suffered debilitating side-effects after receiving multiple batches of remdesivir manufactured by Zydus Cadila, during India’s second wave. The incident demonstrated the laxity 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 ...