Category Archives: Science

Building bridges for India’s wildlife

The Hoolock gibbon is India’s only ape other than us humans. The main reason for [...]

Jonathan is an Aldabra giant tortoise who lives at the residence of the governor of St Helena

Jonathan is an Aldabra giant tortoise who lives at the residence of the governor of [...]

Since magnesium hydridomethylzincate is a solid at room temperature, it could offer

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, have developed a chemical [...]

In humans, the sclerae (in both eyes) are white

A: The tough outer covering of the eyeball is called the sclera. In humans, the [...]

“I strongly advise against the mining of bauxite in the Balda hills and insist on prioritising

In the crevices of boulders and beneath the rustle of leaf litter in the hills [...]

India’s water plants are failing to catch elusive ‘forever chemicals’

Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemical compounds that contain multiple carbon-fluorine bonds. PFAS materials are [...]

What are type I and type II errors?

A: The null hypothesis is a cornerstone of scientific experiments. It is the hypothesis that [...]

This changes the usual relationship between the white dwarf’s mass and size with a new limit(s)

Simulations by researchers of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and their collaborators show that strong [...]

Why science’s contract with society needs citizens as research partners

For hundreds of years, science has operated with a social contract : science develops knowledge [...]

For Tanaya Bose, her years in the laboratory of late Nobel laureate Ada Yonath were marked

In science, some discoveries change the way we understand life. Others change the lives of [...]