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Diamonds pose a quantum block to India’s research ambition

09/07/2024
India, despite being a formidable industry in cutting and polishing diamonds, has only just begun manufacturing diamonds

Scientists find proof pain-sensing cells are either male or female

09/07/2024
Unravelling the different mechanisms that drive pain-sensing will help us design sex-specific pain therapies

In an electric vehicle, what is regenerative braking? | Explained

09/07/2024
Regenerative braking is a system designed to convert the kinetic energy of the wheels to a form that can be stored and used for other purposes

What is the ‘responsible quantum technologies’ movement? | Explained

08/07/2024
A white paper published in June by the University of Oxford cautioned against our inflated expectations of quantum computers

How jumping genes and RNA bridges promise to shake up biomedicine

08/07/2024
Researchers may be able to treat chromosomal inversions or deletions, which are currently beyond the reach of any gene editing tools we have

What is graphene?

08/07/2024

Chang’e 6 | From the Moon’s far side

07/07/2024
China’s lunar exploration mission has returned soil and rock samples from the side of the moon that’s permanently facing away from the earth

Hepatitis A vaccination will be cost-effective in Kerala: study

06/07/2024
Cost-effectiveness evidence supports the inclusion of hepatitis A vaccination into the vaccination programme for children aged one year and individuals aged 15 years in Kerala

Secrets in the sky: What’s in the sky this July

06/07/2024
Calling all stargazers! Check out the wonders in store this month.

Rare and fatal brain-eating amoeba infection | Explained

04/07/2024
Three deaths have been reported due to the rare and fatal infection primary amoebic meningoencephalitis in the past two months in Kerala

Study brings lifestyle of enigmatic extinct humans into focus

04/07/2024
The existence of Denisovans was unknown until researchers in 2010 announced the discovery of their remains in Denisova Cave in Siberia, with genetic evidence showing them to be a sister group to Neanderthals

World's oldest cave painting in Indonesia shows a pig and people

04/07/2024
The scene, dominated by a representation of a pig that is standing upright along with three smaller human-like figures, is painted in a single shade of dark red pigment

India likely undercounting heat deaths, affecting its response to harsher heat waves

04/07/2024
Public health experts say there are likely thousands of heat-related deaths but because heat is often not listed as a reason on a death certificate, many heat deaths don’t get counted in official figures

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Asteroids

04/07/2024
This week’s sci-five quiz is on asteroid.

Universe had spiral galaxies 4 billion years sooner than expected: study

04/07/2024
A team has found evidence of spiral galaxies only half a billion years after the Big Bang, mucking up what we know about their formation

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