India@75 India at 75 | Timeline: ScienceR. RamachandranTracking India’s remarkable progress through milestones in its scientific journey.
Interview: B.V. Sreekantan Peerless trail-blazerR. RamachandranIn conversation with B.V. Sreekantan, cosmic ray physicist and astronomer.
Astronomy Rediscovering PlutoT.V. VENKATESWARANInitial images and data from the NASA spacecraft New Horizons’ recent rendezvous with Pluto point to a surprisingly craterless mosaic of relatively an
Physics Preventing beam bucklingSLENDER beams used as structural elements can buckle when compressed, which could lead to instability and mechanical failure. A Dutch research group h
Space Earth’s bigger, older cousinON July 23, NASA announced that its Kepler mission had found the first near-earth-size exoplanet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. Calle
Physics Pentaquark seen at CERNON July 14, the LHCb experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research’s (CERN) Large Hadron Collider reported the discovery of an exotic c
Electricity Restoring regularityWHEN a rhythm stalls, the effect can be fatal: in a power grid it can mean a blackout and in the human heart even death. A research team, comprising s
Intense rainfall & global warmingRECORD-BREAKING heavy rainfall events, which result in high-impact flooding events, have been increasing in the past 30 years. Before 1980, multi-deca
Black arsenic phosphorusFOR many decades, silicon has formed the basis of modern electronics. But the size of silicon transistors is reaching its physical limit and silicon i
LNMO batteriesWHILE the cathode materials in most of today’s lithium-ion batteries operate at a maximum of 4.2 volts, the cathode material called LNMO spinel (compo
Pluto revelationsNINE years ago, as part of its New Frontiers Programme, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the New Horizons spacecraft. Icy mo
Genomes Problem put to restComparing the genomes of different species,or different members of the same species,is the basis of a great deal of modern biology. DNA sequences that
Space Methane in MarsThe presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been one of the exciting possibilities that explorations of Mars have tried to verify. An intern
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
