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 ...

Vehicles in New Delhi. Representative image. Photo: lingaraj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The following excerpt from Jyoti Pande Lavakare’s Breathing Here Is Injurious To Your Health (November 2020) is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chandigarh: India’s energy requirements are spiking. Electricity consumption has more than doubled since the year 2000. And this trend is only likely to continue. India’s latest National Electricity ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

Camels, llamas, alpacas, sharks, rays and their relatives make unusual antibodies that researchers are investigating for studying — and fighting — human diseases. Photo: Knowable Magazine Every four ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is warming at almost double the global average rate: 0.32°C per decade versus 0.16°C. Photo: Tang Zhaoming/Alamy A recent study on the state of a glacier on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vasudevan Mukunth is the science editor at The Wire. The work of the three individuals who have won the Nobel Prize for physics this year won’t just make you go “wow”. They might just leave you ...