Researchers develop transgenic rice with reduced arsenic accumulation

Lucknow-based CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute researchers developed transgenic rice by inserting a novel fungal gene, which results in …

Kashmir’s Dal Lake harbours bacteria that can degrade pesticides

The presence of naturally-occurring bacteria that is resistant to an insecticide widely used in the region may help in bioremediation …

Scientists develop nanocomposite for bone implants using microwave energy

Researchers at the IIT Mandi, have developed a novel technique to fabricate a porous nanocomposite which shows potential as a bone scaffold

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

Sounds and vibrations are important, they tell us about the medium they’re travelling through

Power shoe

Apart from fitness there is another good reason one should walk: charging mobile phone. Mandar Tulankar, an engineering student in Nagpur, has …

Perils of herd mentality

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Debates on atom

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Chimera of free speech

Book>> The offensive Internet, speech, privacy and reputation • edited by Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum • Harvard University …

The brew of `post-truth'

Popular opinion can now be engineered using fake news grapevines spawned by new technologies. Here's how

From the world to worlds

Orbits of TRAPPIST-1’s seven plant system are compact, yet they are not roasted wastelands like Mercury

Clean technology: overcoming the growth v environment debate

Sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept with three interacting aspects—ecology, economics and ethics

Airplanes face a growing risk of being hit by uncontrolled re-entries of rockets used to launch satellites

An aircraft in flight could be seriously damaged by just 300 grams of space debris impacting an engine, windshield or other critical surface

DTE Coverage: Here is what happened at the 108th Indian Science Congress

From the quality of Indian scientific research to women in science, the event focussed on several issues

Life on Mars? NASA's Curiosity helps discover traces of ancient ocean

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars, signifying a higher potential for life on …

India is patently way behind on 5G

Policy blocks and poor vision have held up 5G in India, while China’s breakthroughs are helping to set global standards

Life on Internet: Why people are turning to AI for creating artwork

Behind the scenes of artifical intelligence model Craiyon that has taken the Internet by storm

Gene transfer enhances insect survival, says study

Gene transfer might have helped in the development of  better traits in mating, nutrition, growth and adaptation

How tech rebooted economics and platforms broke the invisible hand

Growing evidence and new research explain the evolution of economic diversity and the need to rethink monopolies in the age of technology  

Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano and burn it up?

Reasons include the sacred status of several volcanoes, the toxic nature of trash and the design of volcanoes

Are you a more holistic or analytic thinker? Take this quiz to find out

Analytic thinkers focus on individual objects, assigning them to categories based on their attributes. Holistic thinkers consider the context as …

How ‘wise phones’ and wise humans can help avert a climate apocalypse

The right to unrestricted access to the internet ought to coexist with the responsibility to self-regulated consumption of smartphone internet …

Scientists discover a new way to detect early colon cancer

Colon cancer currently gets detected at a very late stage; the new technique could help detect it at stage I

International Women’s Day: Female biologists bring much-needed perspective to science

Scientific fields have not only overlooked female researchers, but have also overlooked research into female biology, both of humans and animals

Marsquakes: InSight lander shows active faults in the planet’s crust

It successfully managed to use a robot arm to place a seismometer on ground clear of landing platform, then cover it with a wind & thermal shield