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 ...

Excess deaths in Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh were over 12-times the corresponding official COVID-19 death toll until early January 2022. Data from across the country suggests governments ...

Nagaland doesn’t have a medical college – the sole state in India with this dubious distinction, which is also emblematic of the state’s people’s difficulties. Even as medical care has improved in the ...

This year, 2019, commemorates the 50th anniversary of one of humanity’s most incredible achievements thus far: of people physically reaching the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the natural ...

People holding placards at a ‘March for Science’ protest in August 2017. Credit: PTI In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments ...

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 ...

The elephant in the room It seems likely that there are many cases of reverse zoonosis to be found in India, but we need more research on this topic, and more researchers to go looking for them.

A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way researchers study palaeontological samples and interpret the data. Its conclusions provide insights into how ...

Alexandra Elbakyan at a talk in 2010. Photo: Apneet Jolly/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. On December 24, 2020, the Delhi high court conducted its first hearing for the ongoing case against Alexandra Elbakyan’s ...

Photo: snowpeak/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Even on the fairest of days, without a single cloud in sight, an electric current flows from the sky to the ground. Driven by the difference in electrical potential ...

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 ...