How Radio Dhimsa is helping Odisha's tribal students tide over digital divide

The station broadcasts educational content to over 2,000 students of classes 1-5 in 62 villages 

World Snake Day: Unique pilot project uses telemetry to tackle snake bite problem

The technology is used to inform rural people about the movements of snakes so that they may steer clear of them  

Solar storms can hamper whales' navigation, cause them to strand: Study

Radio frequency noise created by solar outburst affects whales’ senses and prevents them from navigating, according to the research

Drones deliver medicines in Africa

A US-based company transports life-saving drugs, 148 vaccines and blood units to 2,000 health facilities across Ghana

Information recharge: Meet Devansh Mehta of CGnet Swara

Devansh Mehta believes that people can be sensitised through incentives, be it as small as mobile top-ups

Fast radio bursts detected in the Milky Way for the first time

The superpower blasts of radio waves, ascribed to sources ranging from alien ships to colliding black holes, are actually generated by dead stars …

Uttarakhand forest minister blames UP poachers for tiger deaths in Corbett

Minister Harak Singh Rawat said increased fencing and drone surveillance will be introduced to curb poaching

Radio-tracking drone to aid wildlife census

A drone developed by a few researchers has successfully detected some tiny radio transmitters

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found

MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe

Discovered: More than 300,000 new galaxies

200 astronomers from 18 countries analyse results of low frequency telescope in radio survey of northern hemisphere

Pattern in radio waves: First contact, is it?

The periodic radio waves hitting Earth from a neighbouring galaxy are unlikely to be from aliens, but the possibility cannot be ruled out

Nano technology enables scientists to study migrations of Pied Cuckoo

The project is the first to study the species, which is closely linked to the arrival of the south west monsoon in India

On wrong wavelength

Twenty years after the Supreme Court asserted that people have a right over radio waves, community radio continues to struggle. Instead of …

Radio-collared leopard killed by speeding vehicle in Thane

Ajoba made headlines in 2009 when he travelled over 100 km from Pune to Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Radio collars for elephants in forests along rail tracks

Environment ministry wants to tag jumbos to track their movements and avert rail accidents