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A long, unbroken night of sleep may not be enough for you, new study shows

Anthropologists have found evidence that during preindustrial Europe, bi-modal sleeping was considered the norm.

Assisted reproduction to end-of-life care — Redefining life & death in the Covid age

Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead on his proposal to place bioethics on a new foundation and what implications it has for everything, including Covid-19 response.

Mars, Moon & a fresh pair of eyes in the sky — the big space missions planned for 2021

Among other things, the coming year will provide a glimpse at the progress being made by the burgeoning private space industry — with many new rockets set for their maiden flights.

DRDO’s new quantum device can generate random numbers using light particles

The Quantum Random Number Generator relies on a fundamental property of light — the fact that light behaves like a wave and a particle at the same time.

Vikram Sarabhai, the father of Indian space programme who was also a connoisseur of arts

Vikram Sarabhai, whose legacy lives on in India’s space programme, died of unknown causes on 30 December 1971 in Kerala. A crater on the Moon is named after him.

Can’t travel to see the northern lights? Hear it in this documentary that converts it to music

BBC radio documentary follows a biologist and a music composer in Alaska who captured the sounds emitted by the fascinating phenomenon using very low frequency (VLF) recorders.

Would you eat indoors at a restaurant? We asked 5 health experts

Four said no – and one had a surprising answer.

Bharat Biotech ‘thousands of volunteers short’ for ongoing Covaxin Phase 3 trials

Trial sites conducting Covaxin study say the company has given them an indicative deadline of 31 December to complete the recruitment of volunteers, but company denies claim.

Mutation N501Y — threats, myths and reality of UK’s new coronavirus strain

In episode 644 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talked about the latest scientific developments surrounding the new Covid-19 strain spreading in the UK.

See Saturn, Jupiter ‘come together’ today in rare space event last seen 400 years ago

People will be able to view with the naked eye the great conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn, when the 2 planets will 'merge' into a bright spot, as their orbits cross paths Monday.

On Camera

Make it a Fundamental Right of every religionist to propagate, convert: TT Krishnamachari

On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?