Jitendra Tiwari, Trinamool MLA and former Mayor of Asansol, joins BJP on a day when ECI notifies first of eight-phase Assembly election
An international online symposium of university teachers calls for the creation of a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic
Influential Bengal cleric Abbas Siddiqui takes the stage at Left-Congress Kolkata rally, announces support of his ISF to Left Front in election
Mamata Banerjee slams EC for eight phase election in West Bengal and asks if the schedule was made on orders of Modi and Shah
Reservation for Vanniyars ‘only a temporary measure’ until caste census report becomes available, says Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami
Modi government tightens controls over OTT, online news media, social media; critics call it proxy regulation of news media
Biological warfare experiment Biological warfare experiment in India and the curious case of yellow fever mosquitoes P.K. Rajagopalan Did mosquito research in India in the 1970s act as a cover for certain U.S. research projects having a bearing on biological warfare?
Dominance of big tech companies The growing clout of Big Tech companies and the regulatory need to prevent their abuse of power Shrinidhi Rao
Nobel Prize This year’s Nobel in Chemistry for a magical genetic tool: the CRISPR/Cas9 ‘scissors’ R. Ramachandran
NOBEL PRIZE: Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine goes to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C R. Ramachandran
COVID-19 Pseudoscientific beliefs and world views in the time of pandemic Sandipan Baksi Even as the world pins its hopes heavily on science to combat the biggest pandemic ever, ...
Astronomy Bizarre objects near Milky Way black hole R. Ramachandran ASTRONOMERS from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and W.M. Keck ...
Astrophysics Galaxy with a hydrogen ring R. Ramachandran A team of Indian and French astronomers working at the National Centre for Radio ...
Nuclear energy Fukushima clean-up shows results R. Ramachandran THE Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011 resulted in the ...
Immunology How mothers protect babies from chickenpox R. Ramachandran Mothers with a past history of chickenpox infection may transmit chickenpox viral DNA to ...
Malaria mosquitoes develop resistance to insecticide Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a new ...
Malaria mosquitoes develop resistance to insecticide Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a new ...
Nuclear Power Advanced core catcher for Kudankulam 3 unit R. Ramachandran A new-generation core catcher has been installed at Kudankulam unit 3, which is currently ...
Earth Sciences Submarine cables as seismic sensors R. Ramachandran French scientists from the National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la ...
Food safety New sensor to test milk R. Ramachandran Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a simple ...
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 ...
Social media Mastodon: A new social media platform Raghavendra Selvan Social media aficionados unhappy with platforms such as Twitter for various reasons now ...
Social media The Pegasus fiasco: Privacy in peril T.K. Rajalakshmi The targeted snooping of WhatsApp accounts in India by malicious software raises concerns ...
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 ...
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 ...
Caesarean babies get less of mother’s gut bacteria R. Ramachandran A recent study of neonatal microbiomes (gut bacteria), the largest ever undertaken, has ...
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 ...
Physics Neutrino gains R. Ramachandran In the last edition of “Science Notebook” (September 27), we reported an upper limit on ...
