Category Archives: Science

A rotating detonation engine, or RDE, is an engine design that promises to use fuel more efficiently

Recently, India-based defence start-up D-Propulse announced that it had successfully demonstrated a rotating detonation engine [...]

Whenever concerns are raised about the lack of funding for Indian science, a solution often put forward

Whenever concerns are raised about the lack of funding for Indian science, a solution often [...]

Friedreich’s ataxia, or FRDA, is a genetic disorder that progressively damages the nerves and the heart

Friedreich’s ataxia, or FRDA, is a genetic disorder that progressively damages the nerves and the [...]

Seismologists call this pattern of quakes an earthquake swarm, and Maharashtra has experienced them

Seismologists call this pattern of quakes an earthquake swarm, and Maharashtra has experienced them often [...]

NASA’s FY2027 budget request has also described the ‘Moon Base’ as a means to establish U.S

It is not a foreign country, or even a foreign world: the U.S.’s manoeuvring to [...]

Space and astronomy briefing: Despite its reputation, India’s per-unit space launch cost highest: study

India spends more to put a kilogram of payload into orbit than any other major [...]

Environment and wildlife briefing: Why bats do not fall ill from the viruses they spread

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon [...]

Artificial intelligence briefing: What happens when AI begins to design viruses?

The computer did not create a virus. It did not touch a test tube or [...]

What we can learn from nature switching off human genes

Some people can live apparently ordinary lives even when both copies of a gene (one [...]

What psychiatric genetics can and cannot tell an Indian family

When a young man was brought to my clinic after his first episode of psychosis, [...]