Category: Science

Researchers from IIT-Bombay and Harvard University have said that by providing precise mathematical measures to reproduce such motion in artificial systems, their study can help accelerate innovation in soft robotics. One example: snake-like robots that can navigate through very narrow or confined spaces

Rajula Srivastava won the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, an initiative of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, in 2025 for her work in harmonic analysis and analytic number theory

A new study has found that more than 158 million slum-dwellers in India live in vulnerable settlements in floodplains, with most of them concentrated in the Ganga river delta

The three-tonne machine has been a decade in the making and costs more than $1.5 billion, making it one of the most expensive earth-observing satellites to date

When groundwater is pumped out, the mass of water maintaining the pressure under the earth is removed, creating jolts on the surface

Industrial plants release dyes such as Congo Red and Methylene Blue into rivers and groundwater, from where they can cause stomach, skin, and breathing illnesses

Seeds of Jyothi and Uma rice varieties, Kanakamani (horse gram), Vellayani Vijay (tomato), Thilakathara (sesame) and Soorya (brinjal/eggplant) were sent to the ISS under the ‘Crop Seeds on ISS’, a project spearheaded by the IIST’s Space Biology Lab.

According to the 2011 Census, inter-caste marriages were about 6% and inter-faith ones about 1%. It is likely these numbers will have risen significantly when the forthcoming 2027 Census offers the numbers

The genome of the adult male is said to be the most complete, and the oldest from Ancient Egypt

After the event, defence minister Rajnath Singh said India had entered “a new quantum era of secure communication” that will be “a game changer in future warfare”