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Who is Indian physicist Deepak Dhar? Winner of 2026 Dirac Medal

Deepak Dhar’s work on the ‘sandpile model’ has helped explain unpredictable phenomena such as earthquakes, avalanches, and traffic jams.

Why Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘gaumutra expert’ remark should concern anyone who values science

Throughout history, many medicines originated from traditional knowledge. Aspirin traces its origins to willow bark. Artemisinin emerged from traditional Chinese medicine.

New monkey species found in the jungles of Congo. Likweli has a black face & orange lips

It is only the fifth species of African monkey to be discovered in the last 75 years and the second from Congo's Lomami forests.

Poor sleep affects brains differently. Especially older women

The study is part of an expanding body of research that indicates that good quality sleep may be important to protect the aging brain.

Industrial revolution conquered nature. Technology is conquering what it means to be human

What is being lost is not information. It is the capacity to do anything with information that requires a sustained, reflective, and internally coherent self.

ThePrint Off The Cuff with Pawan Kumar Chandana, ex-ISRO scientist and Founder & CEO of Skyroot Aerospace

Pawan Kumar Chandana was in conversation with ThePrint EiC Shekhar Gupta and Senior Assistant Editor Soumya Pillai at ThePrintOTC at The Quorum, Hyderabad.

Science lost something when it stopped asking ‘why’. It’s now high-tech animal husbandry

We surrendered our attention to the feed. We surrendered our memory to the search engine. We surrendered our solitude to the notification. Why remember what can be retrieved?

What do ovaries do after menopause? New US study says they make a career shift

For the study, reproductive biologist Francesca Duncan and her team observed how the functions of ovaries change with age in lab mice.

What happens when a university burns in war? Science is difficult to rebuild

When Karazin University in Kharkiv fell silent in the spring of 2022, what was lost was not a database. It was a living epistemic community—something more intangible that takes centuries to build.

Parrots don’t just repeat words, they use names to identify people, says new study

In the study, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers found that parrots can use names to identify specific people like their owners and may also repeat their own names to draw attention.

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India needs its own social media ecosystem to protect its children

The government must also look at creating indigenous social media platforms with graded exposure to young people.

$92 mn to $609 mn: Andhra FDI inflows surged after Jagan-era slowdown, TDP credits policy reset

Data on FDI rise has become a political flashpoint, with Naidu govt projecting an investor-friendly turnaround while YSRCP leader says ‘unwarranted information’ provided in House.

And it’s official: India in talks with France to join 6th Gen fighter programme FCAS

In February this year, ThePrint reported that India is exploring the possibility of teaming up with France for co-development and co-manufacturing of the futuristic FCAS.

Guru RSS is cautioning shishya Modi govt. Bhagwat’s endorsement of Gen Z has an Indira lesson

It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.