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‘Challenges for replicability extend across social-behavioural sciences, illustrating the importance of identifying conditions that promote or inhibit replicability’ | Photo Credit: Hal Gatewood/Unsplash A seven-year-long project in the US that analysed 3,900 claims from research papers in social sciences has revealed that results from about half the papers examined for reproducibility were precisely reproducible as … Read more

Petrographic thin-section image an Ammonia sp. microfossil in the Gaj formation of the Dwarka Basin. | Photo Credit: DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2025.10198 In February, researchers from IIT-Bombay, the Indian Statistical Institute, and IISER-Kolkata reported that fossil beds in the Dwarka Basin date back to the early Miocene epoch. They identified 42 species of snails, including four new … Read more

Researchers have found that male octopuses have a specialised arm, known as the hectocotylus, as a sophisticated sensory organ to identify females. | Photo Credit: H. Zell (CC BY-SA) A: Octopuses often live solitary lives and rarely encounter mates, which means they need to be very good at recognising other octopuses if they are to … Read more

More than 50 years after humans first flew around the Moon, Artemis astronauts will repeat the feat on Monday (April 6, 2026) and use the most basic instrument to study it: their eyes. Despite the technological advancements since the Apollo missions, NASA still relies on the eyesight of its astronauts to learn more about the Moon. … Read more

Known as the Mission MITRA (Mapping of Interoperable Traits and Response Assessment), the study will be conducted until April 9. File image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: PTI@NASA The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the launch of a mission in Ladakh to examine the physiological, psychological and operational dynamics of … Read more

This photo provided by NASA shows the moon seen from a window on the Orion spacecraft Integrity during the Artemis II mission on April 3, 2026 | Photo Credit: AP The Artemis astronauts were gearing up Saturday (April 4, 2026) for their long-anticipated lunar flyby, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph … Read more

People stand in a flooded area in Bundi village, Rajasthan, following heavy rains. August 23, 2025 | Photo Credit: @ombirlakota/X.com/ANI Scientists find one reason why northwest India floods more Scientists have reported evidence of two subseasonal weather patterns turning northwestern South Asia, including northwest India, from a semiarid region into a flood-prone one. First, the … Read more

Does Jupiter have a “voice”? When we say discovery of Jupiter’s “voice”, it corresponds to the discovery that the planet Jupiter is a strong source of radio waves. This discovery was made in the 1950s by two scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C. – Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth Linn Franklin – when … Read more

NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both … Read more

NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising the Space Launch System rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. | Photo Credit: Reuters An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both … Read more