Dispatches

Stalin sworn in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, signs five orders fulfilling key election promises

Andhra Pradesh imposes curfew for 14 days starting May 5

Indian Air Force to set up 100-bed COVID care facility, open to civilians, at Jalahalli in Bengaluru

Indian naval ships deployed to bring oxygen and other medical supplies from Persian Gulf region and South-East Asia

Mamata takes oath as Chief Minister for the third consecutive term, announces new restrictions to combat COVID-19 crisis

Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP of Bengaluru South, alleges big scam in the allotment of COVID-19 beds, targets Muslim workers in BBMP’s COVID War Room

Odisha institutes an award for creative writing in English by Odia writers in memory of Manoj Das

Telangana State Forest Development Corporation to provide 1,000 tonnes of firewood to cremation grounds for pyres of COVID victims

Eight lions at Hyderabad zoo test positive for COVID-19

YSR Congress Party retains Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency

Science & Technology

The neutrino observatory in Antarctica sees evidence of Glashow resonance

R. Ramachandran

The giant underground neutrino telescope IceCube in Antarctica sees a phenomenon called Glashow resonance that was predicted more than 60 years ago. The existence of this process marks yet another validation of the standard model of particle physics.

Biological warfare experiment

Biological warfare experiment in India and the curious case of yellow fever mosquitoes

P.K. Rajagopalan

Dominance of big tech companies

The growing clout of Big Tech companies and the regulatory need to prevent their abuse of power

This year’s Nobel in Chemistry for a magical genetic tool: the CRISPR/Cas9 ‘scissors’

R. Ramachandran

Remembering Engels’ thoughts on science and socialism on his bicentenary

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

NOBEL PRIZE: Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics honours work on black holes

R. Ramachandran

What ails biomedical research

P.K. Rajagopalan

MORE STORIES

Cherenkov radiation and muons in IceCube

R. Ramachandran

WHEN a charged particle passes through any medium at a velocity greater than the velocity ...

Pseudoscientific beliefs and world views in the time of pandemic

Even as the world pins its hopes heavily on science to combat the biggest pandemic ever, ...

Bizarre objects near Milky Way black hole

R. Ramachandran

ASTRONOMERS from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and W.M. Keck ...

Galaxy with a hydrogen ring

R. Ramachandran

A team of Indian and French astronomers working at the National Centre for Radio ...

Fukushima clean-up shows results

R. Ramachandran

THE Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011 resulted in the ...

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 ...

Advanced core catcher for Kudankulam 3 unit

R. Ramachandran

A new-generation core catcher has been installed at Kudankulam unit 3, which is currently ...

Submarine cables as seismic sensors

R. Ramachandran

French scientists from the National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la ...

New sensor to test milk

R. Ramachandran

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) have developed a simple ...

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 ...

Ineffective antivenoms for snakebites

R. Ramachandran

A NEW study the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) carried out in collaboration with the ...

Gamma rays get an energy boost

R. Ramachandran

A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil ...

Alarm bells ring on GHG emissions

R. Ramachandran

Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached record new levels, says the ...

Mastodon: A new social media platform

Raghavendra Selvan

Social media aficionados unhappy with platforms such as Twitter for various reasons now ...

The Pegasus fiasco: Privacy in peril

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The targeted snooping of WhatsApp accounts in India by malicious software raises concerns ...

Why lithium-ion batteries fail

R. Ramachandran

LITHIUM-ION batteries that are widely used in modern day electronic gadgets, long-range ...

“Impossible” superconductor synthesised

R. Ramachandran

RESEARCHERS from the United States, Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical ...

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 ...

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