What are the space missions slated for launch in 2024?
2024 will be another important year for space exploration, with several new missions in the pipeline
Simply Put: Rise of the machines
Unknown viruses dating back 15,000 years found in Tibetan glacier
The viruses likely originated with soil or plants, rather than with humans or animals
Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story
This century has brought unexpected discoveries from Europe and Asia
Voyager 2 becomes 2nd spacecraft to cross heliosphere
Voyager 1 achieved the milestone in 2012
IIT Delhi to establish shared research infrastructure
The new centre will come up at the institute's Sonepat campus
Simply put: ISRO and Chandrayaan 2
Simply Put: The mystery of Earthlings
Making jugaad a global success
Frugal innovation is the new concept that companies are adopting to take technology to developing countries
What the new science of authenticity says about discovering your true self
Seeking fluency — and avoiding internal conflict — is probably a pretty good way to stay on the path to being true to yourself
Why using AI tools like ChatGPT in my MBA innovation course is expected and not cheating
We need the various manuals of style to update their rules to include work generated by an AI
Death: How long are we conscious for and does life really flash before our eyes?
A recent research speculated about life ’flashing’ past moments before death; how sound might it be?
The horse bit and bridle kicked off ancient empires — a new giant dataset tracks the societal factors that drove military technology
Around 1000 BC, nomadic herders in the steppes north of the Black Sea invented the bit and bridle
TIFR Swarnajayanti fellow to study plasticity for better design of materials
Plasticity enables a solid to undergo permanent deformation without rupture under the action of external forces
Three-body problem needs real, and not artificial solution
The equation that has confounded mathematicians for over 300 years needs an elegant and beautiful solution, not something where the end is there …
Eliud Kipchoge's sub-2hr marathon: It all comes down to 15 extraordinary seconds
Kipchoge must put one foot in front of the other, at the frighteningly fast average pace of 2m 52s per km
A new technique to protect copper from corrosion
IIT (BHU) researchers used a technique called ‘floating film transfer method’ to obtain ultrathin films of an organic material, …
What determines height of mountains?
Height of the mountains stops increasing after crossing a threshold, influenced by erosion of the areas between mountains, finds the study
The dark side of 'racial science'
Angela Saini exposes how some scientists even today use race to define intelligence, behaviour, predisposition to diseases and even creativity
In thunder, lightning, or... Gamma rays may warn you of the next hurlyburly
Radiation sensors can predict lightning within 10 minutes and around 2 kilometers of where they happen
‘Potentially hazardous’ space rock to fly past Earth on June 24
Named 441987 (2010 NY65), the rock has a diameter of 130 to 300 metres and will pass the Earth at a speed of more than 45,000 kilometres per …
Diamonds are forever. But where do they come from? Watch
Do you know the diamond on your finger is most likely made recycled minerals by Earth below the ocean floor?
Why farmers today need to take up precision farming
The century’s most valuable innovation in farm management is based on using Information and Communications Technologies
Russia to grow 30 gene-edited plants, animals by 2027
The country aims to create 10 new varieties of such crops as well as animals by 2020; another 20 by 2027
Holding the mirror, truthfully, for 28 years
Down To Earth's mission is not hidden in reams of corporate gloss. It is open. It is a dare, writes our editor, Sunita Narain.