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Frogs Are Saying More Than Usual: Are We Listening?

Deyatima Ghosh 24/04/2023

Monitoring frog acoustics over a time period can help...

The 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project, nearing completion on the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border, is the biggest hydel project India has undertaken so far. Photo: Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

The Questionable Rationale Behind India’s Push for Dams in Arunachal Pradesh

Sushmita 20/04/2023

India is currently building as many as six large...

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Opinion: The Truth About ChatGPT’s ‘Hallucination’

Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunu 18/04/2023

When AI chatbots flood the world with false facts,...

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Explained: The Juice Mission to Explore Jupiter’s Moons

Carla Bleiker 17/04/2023

According to the European Space Agency, one of the...

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Pseudoscience Cannot Mask the Prejudice of Ex-Judges Opposing Same-Sex Marriage

Sayantan Datta 15/04/2023

Photo: Terence Faircloth/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Sri...

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Anecdotes From a Lifetime of Interviewing PhD Candidates

D.P. Kasbekar 14/04/2023

No selection process is perfect. Sometimes, deserving candidates are...

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Opinion: Zoos Need to Change

Rafael Miranda, Knowable Magazine 14/04/2023

To justify their existence, they must make conservation their...