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Game-changer: In February 2012, amid intense protests, the government announced the constitution of an expert committee, which included M.R. Srinivasan, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to go into the plant’s safety system. The photo shows Srinivasan handing over the report to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives In September 2011, amid intense protests by activists … Read more

On April 23, 2018 the renowned astrophysicist Jayant V. Narlikar gave a lecture on ‘Searches for Life Outside the Earth’ at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre’s Space Physics Laboratory (SPL) in Thiruvananthapuram. He spoke about the possibility of life existing beyond the earth and the challenges in providing experimental evidence for it. On the occasion, … Read more

The Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), a vulnerable sea turtle species, made headlines earlier this year: a record-breaking seven lakh turtles had nested at Odisha’s Rushikulya beach alone in March. These turtles are renowned for their synchronised mass nesting events called arribada, a Spanish word that means “arrival”. For many people, the Rushikulya arribada signalled … Read more

Game-changer: In February 2012, amid intense protests, the government announced the constitution of an expert committee, which included M.R. Srinivasan, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to go into the plant’s safety system. The photo shows Srinivasan  handing over the report to Chief Minister  Jayalalithaa. | Photo Credit: THE HINDU ARCHIVES In September 2011, amid intense protests by … Read more

Renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Dr. Jayant Narlikar, one of India’s most distinguished astrophysicists who combined profound theoretical insight into cosmology with a lifelong commitment to science communication, passed away at his residence in Pune on Tuesday (May 20. 2025). He was 86. Describing what made Dr. Narlikar one of … Read more

M.R. Srinivasan, former Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) passed away on May 20, 2025. Photo Credit: Special: Arrangement M.R. Srinivasan, the former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, passed away in Udhagamandalam on Tuesday (May 20, 2025). He was 95-years-old. Srinivasan joined the Department of Atomic … Read more

Jarosite crystals from Sierra Peña Blanca in Mexico. | Photo Credit: Robert M. Lavinsky (CC BY-SA) Jarosite is a yellow-brown mineral that contains potassium, iron, and sulphate — and researchers have found it could serve as a natural geological clock on Mars. Recently, a team of researchers from around India sampled six jarosite veins from … Read more

Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Eminent astrophysicist, science communicator, and Padma Vibhushan awardee Dr Jayant Vishnu Narlikar passed away in Pune on Tuesday (May 20, 2025), family sources said. He was 87. A towering figure in Indian science, Dr Narlikar was widely known for his pioneering contributions to cosmology, his efforts to … Read more

All of us have had this experience at some point: you wake up, find out you’re late for a class or meeting, clean up, put on some nice clothes, and run. When you finally get to where you need to be, you’re sweating. You pull out a small deodorant bottle from your bag, give yourself … Read more

Biologists have the fruit fly. Botanists have the thale cress. Neurologists have the roundworm. These are model organisms: plants and animals that scientists in each of these fields study to make sense of almost all other plants and animals in the world. For example, in the 1990s, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new … Read more