Simply Put: Priorities

Simply Put: Artificial Intelligence

Global electricity consumption by AI could increase by 85-134 TWh annually by 2027

This amount is comparable to the annual electricity consumption of countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Argentina

ISRO Report: Joshimath sank 5.4 cm in 12 days

The pictures were taken from the Cartosat-2S satellite

Simply Put: Fate of scientists

Satellites add to light pollution significantly, says new report

Light from space objects scatter over a larger geographic area than sources on Earth

Is India moving towards a mass surveillance state

India is building one of the largest facial recognition technology systems in the world

ICAR researchers produce coconut palm plantlets using tissue culture

The study will have applications for the farming community

Big data on weather

Why private players are competing with governments

Four young scientists to get science writing award

The awards will be presented on the occassion of the National Science Day

Simply put: Number of scientists advising NGT reduced to 2 from 20

Health in news on May 11

Global reports on biodiversity, land quality to be released in four days

The meeting that will see the launch has begun in Medellin, Columbia

The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day

The accretion disc around J0529-4351 is seven light years across, is a gateway to a place of no return

New scientific social responsibility policy in the offing

Draft policy builds upon traditions of earlier policies: Scientific Policy Resolution 1958, Technology Policy Statement 1983, Science and …

Love Thy Planet: That is the key takeaway from the news that Earth’s inner core has stopped turning

This might be the planet’s way of telling us that it is our only home in the vast universe

Digital nomads have rejected the office and now want to replace the nation state. But there is a darker side to this quest for global freedom

For the moment at least, digital nomadism is a privilege which largely depends on your place of birth, long-term place of residence, and economic …

Are you interested in the weather and its impact on nature? Here’s a career for you

Biometeorology is highly interdisciplinary and involves working with several different types of professionals

Offering long-distance lessons to fight lockdown disruptions

An educational non-profit virtually connects rural children with teachers who can instruct in their native language

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics — here’s how his research on complex systems changed science

I am pleasantly surprised that the field of complex systems, which is quietly pushing at the frontier of theoretical research in physics, has …

Book calls for a rethink of capitalism amid the ravages of COVID-19

What is needed, Goldin believes, is a fundamental rethinking of capitalism. Big government and the activist state is back, he says

Day and night aren’t equal length on an equinox — here’s why

The lengths of the day and night aren’t quite the same, and there are two reasons for this

Portal to provide all-inclusive information on SERB sanctioned projects

Portal expected to work as a comprehensive tool to help forge stronger scientist-scientist and science-society connections

Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians

Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy

This new protein may help diabetes patients with fractures

Diabetes patients are more susceptible to bone fractures and take longer than usual to heal