A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

If you care about the environment, you’ve heard about carbon calculators, the digital tools that allow people to calculate their carbon footprint – a measurement of how much carbon dioxide – ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

At 5:30 am on March 20, four men were executed simultaneously at Tihar jail near New Delhi for the gang-rape and murder seven years ago of a 23-year-old woman who has come to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ ...

A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

A detail of an Aeonium tabuliforme plant from Gothenburg, Sweden, displaying a Fibonacci spiral pattern. Photo: Max Ronnersjö/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Many indocentric claims about the ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. At the root of it all is the Khasi pantheistic ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

Relatives of COVID-19 patients wait to fill cylinders at an oxygen filling center, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in COVID-19 cases, at IMT Manesar, May 5, 2021. Photo: PTI New Delhi: For ...

A Miyawaki forest is visible at the centre of this image, along the banks of the Adyar river (right) in Kotturpuram, Chennai. Image: Google Earth ‘Miyawaki’ has become a ubiquitous buzzword in Chennai ...

Popular histories of technology are usually histories of successful inventors. Often, it involves a lone male maverick at work, far from the machinations of the world. This entrepreneurial streak in ...