Union Minister of Agriculture Shivraj Singh Chouhan launches two genome-edited varieties of rice by ICAR, at the Bharat Ratna C. Subramaniam Auditorium, NASC Complex in New Delhi on MAY 4. | Photo Credit: ANI The story so far: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently announced that India has become the first country in the…
A quantum dot is a type of semiconductor thatâs only a few nanometres wide. It has a wide range of applications, including in LED lighting, medical diagnostics, printing, semiconductor fabrication, and solar panels. Theyâre very small but theyâve had a big impact on our world as we know it. This is why the people who…
Mariangela Hungria. | Photo Credit: World Food Prize via AP A Brazilian scientist who pushed back against the use of chemical fertilisers and studied biological approaches to more robust food production has been honoured with this yearâs World Food Prize, the organisation announced on May 13. Microbiologist Mariangela Hungria has been researching biological seed and…
Science quiz: Mars is more than just the red planet Visual: Name this NASA mission that definitively recorded the first quakes on Mars as well as seismic waves in a layer 5.4 km below Marsâs surface. START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | Name this NASA mission (shown on the picture) that definitively recorded the…
Climate change is reshaping the world â and perhaps nowhere more so than in the wild. As ecosystems change, species are forced to move to new locations in search of the resources they need to live. Unlike some human-made borders that are visible as fences and walls, the wild at large has numerous borders invisible…
An image of the ALICE detector, which researchers used to track near-miss collisions between lead nuclei in the LHC. | Photo Credit: CERN In India and other parts of the world, some ancient natural philosophers practised an enterprise called alchemy. It was in some ways an early form of chemistry, but guided by less-than-scientific ideas…
Migratory birds in V Formation, travel over long distances | Photo Credit: mbolina Just like how takeoff and landing are crucial for an airplane, the same applies to birds. Migratory birds often fly in a V-shape, a process known as bird flight. This unique movement is guided by the principles of aerodynamics, specifically lift and…
This Bedmap3 grid of Antarcticaâs bed topography shows the Gamburtsev Mountains slightly to the right of the imageâs centre. | Photo Credit: Pritchard et al., Scientific Data (2025), CC BY Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks,…
Even the greatest human minds building generative artificial intelligence that is poised to change the world admit they do not comprehend how digital minds think. “People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work,” Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei wrote in an essay…
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood. The plasma structures we see are variations in density or turbulence, akin to interstellar cyclones stirred up by energetic events in the galaxy. The study, published in…
