India is among the leading countries in terms of number of scientific papers published in the world. With 135,788 scientific papers, it is third behind…
In what could have serious ramifications including on public health, an in-depth investigation carried out by New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has…
The Indian Institute of Science, a Bangalore-based institution, estimates that by March 2021, there will be 37 lakh 40 thousand cases of the novel coronavirus…
Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as their source of calories. Such microbes were predicted to exist over…
The US government’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, has backed a randomized, placebo-controlled study of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s antiviral drug, remdesivir, to treat patients…
This year marked considerable advances in science. From the first image of a black hole to the beginning of the moonshot renaissance, here’s a rundown…
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly awarded to three scientists, John B Goodenough of the US, Britain’s M Stanley Whittingham and Japan’s…