Solar science NASA probe sheds new light on the sun R. Ramachandran NASA’S Parker Solar Probe has shed new light on the previously unknown and only theorised ...
Public health Ineffective antivenoms for snakebites R. Ramachandran A NEW study the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) carried out in collaboration with the ...
Astronomy Gamma rays get an energy boost R. Ramachandran A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil ...
Climate change Alarm bells ring on GHG emissions R. Ramachandran Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached record new levels, says the ...
Chemistry Why lithium-ion batteries fail R. Ramachandran LITHIUM-ION batteries that are widely used in modern day electronic gadgets, long-range ...
Physics “Impossible” superconductor synthesised R. Ramachandran RESEARCHERS from the United States, Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical ...
Nuclear Power Fusion power research gets a boost R. Ramachandran THE British government has announced the allotment of £220 million ($248 m) over the next ...
How water holds DNA together R. Ramachandran Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new feature in ...
Bald as a black hole R. Ramachandran According to Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a black hole, born from the ...
Power from night sky R. Ramachandran A team of engineers from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford ...
Caesarean babies get less of mother’s gut bacteria R. Ramachandran A recent study of neonatal microbiomes (gut bacteria), the largest ever undertaken, has ...
Astronomy Telescope throws new light on Saturn’s rings R. Ramachandran The latest view of Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of ...
Physics Neutrino gains R. Ramachandran In the last edition of “Science Notebook” (September 27), we reported an upper limit on ...
Astrophysics Neutrino mass gets an upper limit R. Ramachandran Neutrinos, the mysterious and elusive chargeless particles with extremely tiny masses that ...
Medicine Recreating the retina to test harmful drugs R. Ramachandran German scientists have developed “retina-on-a-chip”, a technology that combines living ...