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Daulat Singh Kothari was a physicist, educationist and institution-builder who helped shape modern Indian science. His work on the structure of white dwarfs…

In Punjab, where intensive rice and wheat cultivation has placed heavy pressure on groundwater, irrigation is often guided by habit, calendar dates and the…

The solstice is the point in Earth’s yearly orbit when the Sun reaches its greatest apparent distance north or south of the celestial equator. In India,…

A bite attributed to a “valley lizard” should never be dismissed simply because someone says the animal is non-venomous. The name may describe a local species,…

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan was one of India’s early twentieth-century experimental physicists, a scientist whose work connected careful laboratory…

A team in Chennai has been working on a biodegradable stent designed to support a narrowed coronary artery and then gradually disappear. The idea addresses a…

Across western and central India, dark basalt cliffs, fertile black soils and broad volcanic plateaus preserve evidence of one of Earth’s largest episodes of…

An itchy palm can feel like a small event with a large meaning. In Australia, someone may joke that the sensation signals an unexpected payment, a winning…

The life of S.S. Bhatnagar shows how a chemist can influence an entire national system of research. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar helped transform scientific work in…

In a district of southern India, a small school has become a quiet testbed for circular-economy thinking. Students who once watched plastic bags drift across…