Molecular games
First there was the buckminster fullerene molecule, shaped like a football. Now, scientists have produced a tennis ball look-alike
The fruits of confusion
An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white-tailed black cockatoo
Jaldi dhan will transform drought-hit regions
New varieties of rice that mature in just about two months, can prove to be a boon for marginal farmers in drought-prone areas of India.
Monthly madness
A group of American psychiatrists have proclaimed that some women suffer from a mental illness that usually begins a week before their menstrual …
Preserving for posterity
A group of scientists is attempting to collect and store genetic material from various tribes on the verge of extinction in an effort to preserve …
Sudden jump in infant cancer cases
Doctors are finding it difficult to cope with the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer among children -- innocent victims of radioactivity.
Tilted in North's favour
A geological explanation as to why the South pays with a hole over the Antarctic for the North's misdemeanours
Self-purification
The world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes, straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants
A second too long
The world has been adding an extra second at regular intervals to keep pace with the slowing Earth. Will the practice be stopped as the US says …
An empire withers away
Recent findings suggest the Akkadian empire, which once flourished on the banks of the Euphrates, collapsed because of a sudden dearth of water.
5G will adversely affect weather predictions: Meteorologists in the US
Meteorologists are not happy sharing frequency band as they believe it will interfere with weather forecasting
Will 5G slip through the net or cast it wide?
As the Centre plans a Rs 6-lakh crore spectrum auction to make the introduction of 5G affordable, experts and industry stand at odds over its …
Bitcoins generate as much CO2 as Bengaluru or Chennai
Bitcoin mining — computing capacity used in the production — was the highest in Asia (68 per cent)
India plans to launch a space station
India would become the fourth country to launch a space station after the US, Russia and China
MIT researchers explore physics of evaporation
More than temperature, it's changes in pressure that influence how quickly liquid turns into gas
Feathers came 100 million years before birds: Study
The structures formed 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period not for display or flight, but purely for insulation
New group of ancient Siberians identified
Scientists named the group ‘Ancient North Siberians’ and described them as the ‘missing link’ in the Native American …
Watch: an atlas for the visually impaired
National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) released an atlas for the visually impaired earlier this month. Down To Earth enquires …
Sister Solar System and Earth's cousins
After discovering Earth-like planets in 2014 and 2015, the NASA took a step towards finding life outside our own solar system by discovering a …
Wannabe Noahs
Scientists are trying to bring back extinct animals from the dead, throwing open the Pandora's box
Bet your brain
The market is flooded with brain boosters, even though there is little evidence to show for it
Cutting-edge superconductors
Experiments aim at developing materials that are superconductive at close to room temperature
James Webb Telescope captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings after 3 decades
Webb images vividly display Neptune’s fainter dust bands in addition to many brilliant, narrow rings
Helping cells become better protein factories could improve gene therapies and other treatments — a new technique shows how
Gene therapy involves replacing a defective gene with a functioning one that can direct cells to produce missing or dysfunctional proteins
Opinion: Earthquakes are a boon for Earth
Earthquakes are natural but huge losses of life and property during the incidence of an earthquake are anthropogenic