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Delhi HC ban on ‘shadow libraries’ is pushing Indian researchers up against the paywall

Researchers say necessary journal articles usually locked behind expensive paywalls, ban gives unfair advantage to those studying abroad with access to institutional resources.

Optimists think alike, but pessimism hits everyone differently, find Japanese, Australian researchers

Researchers did functional magnetic resonance imaging to probe into brain activity in 87 participants as they thought of different future events marked as positive, neutral or negative.

Delhi HC seeks response from govt. on law researchers plea over delayed salary

The petition filed by a group of law researchers who worked between 2018 & 2025 demands the implementation of a 2023 order that raised the monthly salary to Rs 80,000.

UGC halts CARE reference list of journals for ‘greater academic freedom’. What it means for academia

Introduced in 2018, UGC-CARE list aimed to recognise only reputable journals for faculty selections, promotions, and research funding.

Researchers come up with new way to increase crop yields

The National Institute of Plant Genome Research has found a way to enhance nitrogen uptake and efficiency in plants.

Scientist couple’s research paper-style wedding card analyses their ‘stable covalent bond’

Indian agriculture researchers Alapati Nymisha & Prem Kumar B's wedding invite gives a sneak peek into their love story, how they met, fell in love & decided to get married—all through science.

Scientists find way to boost supercapacitors’ energy storage. It could change how we charge devices

This could help develop devices that substantially reduce charging times for everything, from laptops to electric vehicles.

Indian researchers paid $17mn to publish in open access journals in 2020

Researchers from IIM Ahmedabad, IMU Kolkata & Berhampur University behind study also emphasised need for development of national open access repository for Indian researchers.

‘Beehive imprints’, not 550 mn-yr-old fossil: Bhimbetka find proven false, scientists accept mistake

Rare Dickinsonia fossil actually decaying beehive imprints, finds research team from University of Florida that went to the rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh for follow-up study.

38% Americans think US is ‘losing ground’ on scientific advancements since Covid, finds study

Conducted by Pew Research Centre, the survey also found that only 14% US citizens thought the country was excelling in scientific achievements.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.