While 2023 marked the year India landed on the Moon and sent off its first space-based mission to study the Sun, there was a lot of exciting stuff happening in other fields of science as well.
Findings, published in peer-reviewed journal 'Frontiers in Plant Science', form a first layer of data for future studies on the value of the plant, and its applications in pharmacology.
IISc and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research scientists develop engine with no heat loss. Study published this week in journal 'Nature Communications'.
India's first test tube baby was born less than 3 months after the world's first IVF baby. But Mukherjee was mocked, shunned by peers as his work wasn't published in a scientific paper.
The scientist pointed out that wealth of a country depended on innovation and knowledge, and noted that over the years, the share of GDP India spent on science had been declining.
With DST's decision to merge KVPY with INSPIRE, aspirants focussing on research and natural sciences right from school will now have to compete with those focussing on engineering & medical sciences.
Citizen science has become a powerful tool assisting Covid pandemic response. With our demographic & penetration of technology, India has vast potential for it.
Speaking at India International Science Festival 2020, PM Modi said the govt's efforts are aimed at making India the most trustworthy centre for scientific learning.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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