Science

A freshly excavated fossil specimen of Yawunik kootenayi is seen in this undated handout picture. Credit: Reuters

Some of the Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth Found in Canadian Rocks

Will Dunham 28/09/2017

Researchers measured concentrations and isotope compositions of the graphite...

The VIRGO Observatory. Credit: The Virgo collaboration/CCO 1.0

Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected for Fourth Time – With Many Firsts

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/09/2017

We are getting a glimpse of the power of...

The Sharklets (blue shirts) play the Eagles in a Future League American football youth league match in Beijing, China, May 26, 2017. Credit: Reuters

Illusory Sense of Agency Has a Deeply Important Social Purpose

Chris Frith 24/09/2017

Many neuroscientific studies confirm that the brain’s ‘automatic pilot’...

An ant colony in a lab. Credit: Daniel Charbonneau

The Last Insect You’d Expect to Put up With Laziness Is the Ant – but It Does

Janaki Lenin 24/09/2017

Ant colonies put up with inefficient gold bricks in...

Archana Lakhani. Credit: The Author

Experimenting with Cold, Magnetic Materials in Indore

Aashima Dogra 24/09/2017

Condensed matter physicist Archana Lakhani is the only woman...

Asima Chatterjee in 1961. Credit: The Indian Scientists, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Asima Chatterjee, the Scientist Who Did So Much More in a Time of Less

Nandita Jayaraj 23/09/2017

Let us remember Asima Chatterjee as a world-class chemist...

Metropoles like Shanghai have survived and thrived in large part because of their massive populations. But what happens when people start to become a liability rather than an asset? Credit: Reuters

Can the World’s Megacities Survive the Digital Age?

Christopher H. Lim and Vincent Mack 21/09/2017

For megacities, it’s time to start planning for a...