The Government of Tamil Nadu has published new treatment protocols for COVID-19 patients that leaves out the use of ivermectin, which had been included in a previous version. The new protocols ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

An ampoule of remdesivir is pictured at a news conference in Hamburg, Germany, April 2020. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/Pool via Reuters COVID-19 patients suffered debilitating side-effects after receiving ...

House crow (left) and Asian koel. Photos: Muhammad Mahdi Karim (GNU FDL) and Doug Janson (CC BY-SA). In their breeding period, birds mate, lay eggs, rear their offspring and protect them. In India, ...

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 ...

Flamingoes and waders in a wetland area of Navi Mumbai. Photo: Shawn Dsouza/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Just as forests are called as the ‘lungs of the earth’, wetlands are the ‘kidneys’ that regulate ...

In a new report, ICMR has reported the incidence of stroke in five regions based on registries it set up there in 2018. Of them, the highest incidence has been reported from Cuttack, Odisha. Cuttack ...

“Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the beach, it would move. It would glisten and gleam and sparkle and be absolutely captivating,” ...