A Landsat 8 photo of snow in the Sahara desert, near the Algerian town of Aïn Séfra. Photo: NASA Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone ...

Featured image: Representative photo of joshua trees. Luke Jones/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” ...

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 ...

Representative image. Photo: JAFAR AHMED/Unsplash Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” of the rich, they have ...

But given that solar power will play a huge role in India’s energy needs, how equitable and green is it? While India’s solar growth, as experts say, looks buoyant, questions are being raised about the ...

The 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project on the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border. Photo: Snigdhendu Bhattacharya Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few ...

A North Atlantic right whale calf was found dead on the beach. Photo: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Hundreds of dead whales have washed up on the Atlantic coast of ...

Camels, llamas, alpacas, sharks, rays and their relatives make unusual antibodies that researchers are investigating for studying — and fighting — human diseases. Photo: Knowable Magazine Every four ...

It may be true, but you might be surprised that Big Oil is largely responsible for the fact that you know this. In the early aughts, British Petroleum (today BP) created an advertising campaign that ...

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 ...

N.K. Arora’s statement to ANI + The Wire Science ‘s response (10:10 am, July 20, 2022): Responding to The Wire Science ’s report on the lack of approval for ‘precautionary’ doses, on July 19, NTAGI ...

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 ...