M.S. Narasimhan, December 2010. Photo: Bocardodarapti/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 In M.S. Narasimhan’s passing, India has lost one of its most versatile mathematicians. As one for whom he was a ...

A female apple maggot. Photo: Joseph Berger/Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0 Railroad worms are beginning to offer evolutionary biologists a front-row seat to an accelerated form of evolution once thought to be ...

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 Hindu Kush Himalayan region is warming at almost double the global average rate: 0.32°C per decade versus 0.16°C. Photo: Tang Zhaoming/Alamy A recent study on the state of a glacier on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To feel small, all we have to do is look up. The Sun, the Moon, the stars, the planets and the Milky Way are evidence enough that Earth is not all that is. And for as long as humans have had words, we ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

A rare humpback whale sighting off the coast of Sri Lanka, February 19, 2011. Photo: Navodya Ekanayake/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (horizontally flipped by The Wire Science). It was a cool ...

Adivasi protestors at a rally in New Delhi. Photo: Reuters/Parivartan Sharma. The environmental justice movement arose out of a criticism of traditional environmentalism, which emphasised preservation ...

A part of a visualisation of the Riemann zeta function in the complex plane. The Re(½) line passes vertically through the middle. Plot: Nschlow/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Euclid found long ago ...