Featured photo: Seratobikiba/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Tribal communities in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh “signed away” their rights to carbon credits through a local NGO intermediary ...

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helmsman S. Somanath’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern scientific discoveries and understanding have gained far greater currency after ...

But, a new report on India’s forensic science system finds that there are large vacancies in government forensic labs, funding delays and underutilisation of budgets, and need for more space and ...

For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometres long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” of the rich, they have slowly started surpassing communicable diseases as ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

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 ...

A view of the Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: Arif Siddiqui/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega ...

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 ...

Isn’t it better to shave ideas down to their essential truths? Ockham’s razor sounds logical and definitive, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. Not only is the assumption of simplicity often ...