Rain drain
By leaching essential nutrients from top soil, acid rain threatens forests in more ways than previously thought
Caught by the gen(i)e
Scientists develop genetically modified mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria parasite
Poets in lab coats
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The man and his machine
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Science meets fiction
Down To Earth invites sci-fi buffs and writers to take its readers on a guided tour of the world of science fiction that throws a mirror to the …
Nobel Prize for physics awarded for gravitational waves detection
Scientists Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne, together with Barry Barish, whose effort led to the discovery 100 years it was …
Magnetic streamers to decorate eclipsed sun, scientists predict
If the prediction comes true, it will mark a major scientific achievement and could facilitate forecasting of space weather in future
Scientists edit human embryos to safely remove disease for the first time – here's how they did it
Two researchers are impressed with a pioneering study showing that it may be both safe and effective to edit out diseases in human embryos
IIT Madras develops surgical robot for medical colleges
The use of robots offers greater precision and helps surgeons minimise loss of blood by restricting incisions to smaller areas
Pentagon UFO videos steal limelight from COVID-19
Older, leaked clips of unidentified flying objects now confirmed by US defence department
James Webb Space Telescope: How our launch of world’s most complex observatory will rest on a nail-biting knife edge
If all goes well, humanity will have a new eye on the cosmos, with capabilities that far surpass anything that has gone before
First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem
We believe monkeys to have lower moral status than humans; but what about human-monkey chimeras?
IIT-Bombay researchers make new model to accurately estimate variations in microchips
This is the first time that the experimental validation of variations predicted using physics-based modeling has been reported
James Webb Telescope gives a glimpse of how stars are born
New images by the James Webb Space Telescope will help space scientists better understand what happened during the first million years of the …
Churn under sea: Can increase in seafloor spreading speed up global warming
Seafloor spreading, caused by an upwelling of magma, has led to episodes of global warming in the geologic past; the spread rate has slowed down …
Fourth industrial revolution: ‘4IR alone not a solution’
Technology can deny work to a population or it can liberate them. Outcome depends on how we organise technology use
That’s a relief! We have a way to recover phosphorus from our urine
Phosphorus is an element vital for life but of limited supply. But we can recover phosphorus from a source that we all give away freely, every day,…
It’s reassuring to think humans are evolution’s ultimate destination – but research shows we may be an accident
Modern biologists agree most complex organisms have become more complex over the last 4 billion years, disagree over the process that accounts …
Dianna Cowern: The Wonder Woman who teaches science
At a time of increasing scientific ignorance, Cowern has leapt highest wall of all — one between scientists and everyone else
DTE Coverage: Will India strike gold with Chandrayaan-3?
Chandrayaan-3 is expected to make a soft landing on the Moon in the fourth week of August
World past Holocene Epoch; Anthropocene began in 1950, say scientists
The Anthropocene Working Group proposes Crawford Lake near Toronto as a designated geological repository of evidence, marking the transition into …
First ever view of the Milky Way seen through the lens of neutrino particles
It’s the first time we have seen our galaxy “painted” with a particle, rather than in different wavelengths of light
Shipwrecks can teach us a lot. But the submersible incident is a warning: Experts to DTE
The shipwreck tourism industry in India is still very small and elite; but this could change
Missing Titanic sub: What are submersibles, how do they communicate and what may have gone wrong?
Submersibles are manned watercraft that move in a similar fashion to submarines, but within a much more limited range
Life: modern physics can’t explain it – but our new theory, which says time is fundamental, might
This is perhaps the most radical departure for physics of life from standard physics, but it may be the critical insight needed to explain what …