A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

An ampoule of remdesivir is pictured at a news conference in Hamburg, Germany, April 2020. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/Pool via Reuters COVID-19 patients suffered debilitating side-effects after receiving ...

A view of the Three Mile Island nuclear power generation facility, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in July 2007. Photo: Todd MacDonald/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The memories of past catastrophes continue to ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is warming at almost double the global average rate: 0.32°C per decade versus 0.16°C. Photo: Tang Zhaoming/Alamy A recent study on the state of a glacier on the ...

As the COVID-19 outbreak in India swelled earlier this year, there were reports of people dumping the bodies of those who had succumbed to the disease in the river. A new book coauthored by the ...

In a new report, ICMR has reported the incidence of stroke in five regions based on registries it set up there in 2018. Of them, the highest incidence has been reported from Cuttack, Odisha. Cuttack ...

In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. At the root of it all is the Khasi pantheistic ...