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In Climate Change and Climate Justice: India’s efforts to balance economic growth with green transition, The Hindu investigates India’s multifaceted response to climate change. This exclusive e-book delves into India’s unique position as the fourth largest economy in the world and one of the top polluters, its strategies for meeting rising energy demands while maintaining … Read more

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus has developed a smart wound dressing capable of killing the infection-causing bacteria and also visually signalling the presence of infection — all without the use of traditional antibiotics. The work has been published in ACS Infectious Diseases, a journal of the American Chemical Society, highlighting … Read more

Flooding events are a major hazard worldwide. According to a 2024 Moody’s report, more than 2.3 billion people are exposed to flooding every year. In India, more than 600 million people are at risk of coastal or inland flooding. However, there is a lack of comprehensive data on vulnerable communities’ flood exposure risk, especially in … Read more

If fresh fish is already a rich source of protein (17-19%) depending on the fish variety, dry fish with up to 70% protein is a far superior source of protein. Besides high protein content, dry fish is also a rich source of omega-3 fatty acid, calcium and iron. Since the protein content is high, a … Read more

A view of the NASA-ISRO’s joint satellite NISAR in Sriharikota on July 28, 2025. Photo: X/@isro via ANI Ahead of the launch of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite scheduled for July 30, 2025, the ISRO on Monday (July 28, 2025) announced that the satellite had been mounted on a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle … Read more

A view of the NASA-ISRO’s joint satellite NISAR following its launch on July 30th at 5:40 p.m., in Sriharikota on July 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: X/@isro via ANI Photo Ahead of the launch of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite scheduled for July 30, the ISRO on Monday (July 28, 2025) announced that … Read more

The unique Earth observation satellite NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) will be launched through the GSLV-S16 on July 30, said ISRO chairman V Narayanan. Weighing 2,392 kg, NISAR is a unique Earth observation satellite and the first to observe the Earth with a dual-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (NASA’s L-band and ISRO’s S-band) both using NASA’s … Read more

The vagus nerve can be stimulated to manage epilepsy. | Photo Credit: Manu5 (CC BY-SA) Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is a medical technique where doctors implant electrodes deep inside specific areas of the brain to treat certain disorders. These electrodes are connected by wires to a small device, similar to a heart’s pacemaker, which is usually … Read more

More than a century ago, a 26-year-old Albert Einstein explained Brownian motion in one of four papers he published in his annus mirabilis, the miraculous year, called because these papers shot him to fame. Brownian motion is the random jittering of small particles in a fluid, caused because they’re constantly colliding with molecules around them. … Read more

Where it all began… Did you know that a rough conservative estimate of India’s tiger population at the start of the 20the Century was around 40,000? The top end of the estimates even placed the number of tigers in the Indian subcontinent in 1900 at around 1,00,000!  That number, however, nosedived to a mere 1,827 … Read more