Category: Science

The late 18th and 19th centuries marked a period of profound intellectual and cultural awakening across India, with Bengal emerging as its prominent centre. Although similar currents of intellectual, social, and cultural reform were taking shape in several other parts of the country, the scale, diversity, and enduring influence of this awakening found their fullest…

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Fruits are sweet to attract animals. | Photo Credit: Jo Sonn/Unsplash — Mahua Ray A: The primary reason plant-based foods are rarely salty while animal products have a more savoury taste profile is because animals have nervous systems and blood and plants don’t. Animals generally need lots of sodium to maintain their extracellular fluids like…

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A true-colour photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. M32 is visible above and slightly to the left. | Photo Credit: David Dayag (CC BY-SA) Astronomers have used data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope to piece together the clearest yet map of star formation across most of the Andromeda Galaxy over the last 500 million years….

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Fashion is a part of our lives, we breathe it every day. Look around, and you’ll find garment stores everywhere: from small roadside stalls to giant malls, from local shops to global brands. Fashion never goes out of trend. But have you heard of the term fast fashion? Let’s find out what it means. What…

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India does not lack respected homes for theoretical physics research. Asked why it needs another, Jainendra K. Jain — founding director of the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute (LTPI) — answers by describing what the place will not do. It will be “smaller” than the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) , narrower in scope than…

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How much can realistically change within the span of a single political term? The answer matters because India’s wider growth and development ambitions now hinge on how its cities handle water. Urban India is expected to drive the bulk of GDP growth this decade — yet many city water systems remain fragile. Utilities lose more…

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(Clockwise from top-left) Yu Deng, John Pardon, Hong Wang, and Jacob Tsimerman, winners of the 2026 Fields Medals. | Photo Credit: Fields Medals 2026/International Mathematical Union The Fields Medal — one of the top honours in mathematics — for 2026 was awarded to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman, and Hong Wang. The Medal is…

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