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What Indian scientists achieved in 2018 beyond ISRO and its rocket launches

New and promising scientific technologies in fields ranging from nanotechnology to space weather made headlines this year.

An atmospheric scientist makes new findings on ocean warming easy for you

A new finding suggests that global warming may be even more advanced than previously thought.

Nobel winners Allison & Honjo have helped reverse cancer completely in some patients

Allison and Honjo made key discoveries about immune checkpoints that later led to the development of immunotherapies that have proven successful in humans.

Neanderthals were no brutes. They were precise workers capable of caring for the weak

New evidence reveals that the Neanderthals were more similar to modern humans in their physical expression than previously thought.

New ideas replace superstar scientists when they die

A study has found that the death of a scientist leads to an influx of new people with different ideas into the field.

Schizophrenia to oceans: The mysteries winners of big-ticket CSIR prize are trying to solve

The annual prize was instituted in honour of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, who played a major role in setting up India's science & tech infrastructure.

The Sri Lankan who solved a maths problem for Jeff Bezos & gave the world Amazon

Yasantha Rajakarunanayake was the toast of the internet this week after the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos called the Sri Lankan smarter than him. 

These Indian scientists have formed a band of myth-busters. Social media beware

A group of scientists from Mumbai are tracking fallacies peddled as fact and then debunking them.

Why the physics community has lost interest in breakthrough discovery

There’s deep scepticism about an IISc duo’s claims of achieving superconductivity at room temperature owing to their silence on the study.

Calling Baker Street! IISc duo’s ‘power breakthrough’ has kicked up a Sherlockian mystery

If proved true, the discovery of the researchers could well be one of the biggest moments of modern science.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?