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Four astronomy facilities announced in Union Budget to cost ₹3,500 crore, to be completed over a period of three to 13 years

Four astronomy facilities announced in Union Budget to ...

IIA Director Professor Annapurni Subramaniam informed that the projects will be ...

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India’s Project Cheetah must stop importing big cats, say scientists

India’s Project Cheetah must stop importing big cats, s...

Conservationists believe the new batch of African cheetahs, brought from Botswan...

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Daily Quiz: On firebombings of World War II

Daily Quiz: On firebombings of World War II

The worst damage a weapon can inflict in a war need not be nuclear. The firebomb...

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UV camera snaps treetops glowing as thunderstorm passed overhead

UV camera snaps treetops glowing as thunderstorm passed...

Researchers have captured the first direct evidence of coronae in the wild as th...

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ISRO and ESA sign agreement for Earth Observation missions

ISRO and ESA sign agreement for Earth Observation missions

The agreement was signed on March 4 by M. Ganesh Pillai, scientific secretary, I...

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Why India’s ‘leaky pipeline’ in research is unlike the rest of the world

Why India’s ‘leaky pipeline’ in research is unlike the ...

Most women PhD holders in STEM in India find themselves unable to access long-te...

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Global warming picking up pace, study says

Global warming picking up pace, study says

The researchers have projected that at the newfound rate, the earth could breach...

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Women’s Day Special | ‘The greatest freedom is intellectual independence’

Women’s Day Special | ‘The greatest freedom is intellec...

In honour of celebrating women, we spoke to a theoretical physicist whose work e...

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How technology is transforming healthcare

How technology is transforming healthcare

With technology entering healthcare, students should be trained for careers that...

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Breast cancer cases in India have more than doubled in three decades, experts say

Breast cancer cases in India have more than doubled in ...

Experts highlight gaps in access to treatment despite advances in breast cancer ...

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Massive experiments could soon reveal more about nature of ‘ghostly’ particles

Massive experiments could soon reveal more about nature...

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything

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Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quantum computing, says Swiss foundation head Marilyne Andersen

Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quant...

They should be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, int...

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Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quantum computing: Marilyne Andersen

Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quant...

They should be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, int...

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Science Quiz: On Venus

Science Quiz: On Venus

The missions that brought Venus into view

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The natural universe remains captivating when it skips the people

The natural universe remains captivating when it skips ...

Science journalism should also maintain a space for unfettered wonder and a curi...

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Experiencing heat during pregnancy results in fewer male babies: study

Experiencing heat during pregnancy results in fewer mal...

Beyond birth ratios, research has linked rising heat to severe maternal health c...

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Turning carrot waste into edible material again

Turning carrot waste into edible material again

In an approach that reduces food waste and improves food security, researchers h...

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Meet the woman who’s on a climate mission to the North Pole

Meet the woman who’s on a climate mission to the North ...

Inside the Arctic cabin of Hilde Fålun Strøm — 19 months, 104 polar bears, and a...

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Daily quiz: On ‘heretics’

Daily quiz: On ‘heretics’

On this day in 1616, Nicolaus Copernicus’ book on the heliocentric theory was ba...

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India-Canada uranium deal and India’s nuclear programme | Explained

India-Canada uranium deal and India’s nuclear programme...

India has increasingly relied on imported uranium, which currently meets nearly ...

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‘Free’ vaccines, single-dose nudge pushes India-made HPV vaccine to back of the line

‘Free’ vaccines, single-dose nudge pushes India-made HP...

An ongoing study led by ICMR, which is testing whether a single dose of the Indi...

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Chronic traffic noise exposes kinks in India’s urban regulations

Chronic traffic noise exposes kinks in India’s urban re...

Auditory stress doesn’t stay at the ear. Chronic noise activates the hypothalami...

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IISc and Pratiksha Trust launch moonshot project on brain co-processors

IISc and Pratiksha Trust launch moonshot project on bra...

The primary goal of the moonshot project is to develop both implantable and non-...

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Why India needs to radically rethink its doctoral education programmes

Why India needs to radically rethink its doctoral educa...

India faces many real-world problems that could benefit from high-quality PhD re...

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Why India needs to radically think its doctoral education programmes

Why India needs to radically think its doctoral educati...

India faces many real-world problems that could benefit from high-quality PhD re...

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What is a megamaser?

What is a megamaser?

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How landscape memory, hysteresis shape the way Indian cities flood

How landscape memory, hysteresis shape the way Indian c...

In India’s cities, streets remain waterlogged long after the downpour has passed...

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From lapis-laden trade routes to mass armies: the changing value of blue

From lapis-laden trade routes to mass armies: the chang...

Blue travelled across empires as a marker of divinity, power, and painstaking la...

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