Science

Winter Soldiers: How The Ice Stupa Team Is Saving Glaciers The World Over

A simple design and ice shaped like the Buddhist chorten, mitigates disaster risk in glacial regions.

Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths

As well as giving us the concept of zero, Indian mathematicians made seminal contributions to the study of trigonometry, algebra, arithmetic and negative numbers among other areas.

Eclipse in Ancient Mythology

During a solar eclipse, according to Hindu mythology, Rahu slowly devours the sun, and it gradually disappears into Rahu’s throat – only to reappear from his severed neck.

Why British Asian Students Receive Negative Media Coverage

In the first ever study of its kind, researchers from the University of Surrey examined 185 newspaper articles to analyse media reporting of minority student groups.

Govt Initiative Bringing Indian Scientists Back

About 370 scientists have returned to India under schemes aimed at attracting them back to their homeland.

Zeroing in on Zero

Indians are convinced they discovered the zero. Can they prove it?

Playing with Light

The implications of the faster-than-light neutrinos experiment are both exhilarating and chilling.

NASA Tool to Explore the Solar System

Indian Lab Joins Ghost Hunt

Indian physicists have decided to offer a proposed underground laboratory in southern India to an international science consortium looking for dark matter, an invisible form of matter that represents one of cosmology's biggest mysteries.

IIT Kanpur Plans to Launch Nano Satellite in September

IIT Kanpur's indigenously built nano satellite 'Jugnu' is likely to be launched by the end of September from Sriharikota, an official of the institute said on Monday. ISRO scientists have given the green signal to the engineering model