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“Behaviour of tiger P243 strengthened the belief that his presence means no harm to cubs. Instead, it showed lots of promise about the safety of the cubs. There is not much knowledge of the cubs’ ...

The carbon footprint and calculator were popularised by Big Oil to shift blame for climate change from industry to the individual. But you can turn the tables and use these tools for good.

Field research in India is often extractive: researchers depend on the knowledge of local people to navigate unfamiliar landscapes, but later dismiss or forget the latter's contributions. Every year, ...

Schrödinger was deeply moved by the Upanishads. He discussed it with everyone he met and made determined efforts to incorporate it in his life. Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public ...

Of 3,211 sanctioned posts at 26 labs, 40% were vacant. Of 1,294 vacant posts, more than two in three were scientific posts, says Project 39 A’s Forensic Science India Report. But, a new report on ...

Parachute science is rife in palaeontology, and we need to do something about its consequences for the field, scientists say. A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri ...

Every urbanising city has space constraints, but this does not mean the only feasible form of afforestation is to choke small spaces with a large number of plants. A Miyawaki forest is visible at 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. Dead bodies of those who died of ...

As well as making inevitable earthquakes more dangerous by melting glaciers and destabilising mountain slopes, emerging research indicates that climate change may be affecting the frequency of ...