Scientist who called mysterious Oumuamua object alien probe explains why
Abraham Loeb, one of the Harvard scientists who came up with this theory, talks about this extraordinary conclusion and the media frenzy it generated
Cutting-edge tech at low cost behind India’s first private rocket
Down To Earth catches up with Pawan Kr Chandana, co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, whose Vikram-S became the first privately made rocket to …
Japan’s space probe first to capture material beneath asteroid surface
Hayabusa2 made its first touchdown on Ryugu — a kilometre-wide asteriod, with a relatively dark surface and almost zero gravity — in …
India’s Chandrayaan-2 will facilitate an American’s return to the moon
Starting July 15, both India and the US will work out hectic lunar activities for the next five years
IIT-Madras researchers develop new technique to help avoid sudden power shutdowns
The new technique works by making it easier to monitor levels of pollution deposits in power transmission networks
Robots are here, almost
The use of industrial robots is growing at an unprecedented rate in India. Are blue-collar jobs under threat?
Milky Way to collide with another galaxy
UK researchers find that this will happen in the next two billion years and will send our solar system hurtling into space
'The talk of space wars, colonisation is still in the realm of fiction'
Weaponisation of space has long seemed inevitable and Trump's announcement of Space Force diverges from historical conventions that consider …
Scientists discover a new source of neutrinos in space – opening up another window into the universe
A giant detector at the South Pole has discovered that a “blazar”, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its centre, also …
Why we say 'huh' once every 84 seconds
N J Enfield’s book inverts traditional concerns about language and and seeks to understand it as we experience it—via the messy …
Can science talk about peace, compassion and democracy?
When the Dalai Lama posed this question at an event, I imagined him mischieveiously asking each presenter at the Indian Science Congress, "…
10 things to know about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter
With the Juno spacecraft successfully in place in the orbit of the largest planet of our solar system, we bring you quick facts about the …
Another gravitational wave detected, second time in four months
With two strong gravitational waves in four months, scientists can now work towards mapping the population of black holes in our universe
Weed energy
Electricity can be generated from a creeper plant, as an experiment in Madhya Pradesh has demonstrated
Green power
The seed of a humble tree may be a substitute for diesel and could hasten rural electrification
Global Conservator
The US is taking its role as the protector of sea turtles worldwide too seriously, ignoring some important factors
Fish in troubled waters
Several fish species in Kerala are threatened by overfishing and the release of effluents in the coastal waters
Replaceable or not
Rules are in place for vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas but key technology issues remain unresolved
Promises kept and not kept
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The back up man
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The file drawer bust
Daniele Fanelli, researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, probes the problem of quantity versus quality in scientific research. …
World Cities Day: How humans and robots can co-exist in cities
Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities but create more challenges for policymakers
Sun lighting up the valley
Solar lighting systems have brightened up the gloomy winters of Himachal Pradesh's Mayad valley
'ISRO's nanosatellites can become a global system for navigation'
ISRO's navigation system can prove to be more accurate and economical than current ones
Outer space: Rwanda & Nigeria sign an accord for more responsible exploration — why this matters
It also enables the countries to participate in events where decisions on outer space are made