Category: Science

In science, some discoveries change the way we understand life. Others change the lives of the people who make them. For Tanaya Bose, her years in the laboratory of late Nobel laureate Ada Yonath were marked by both. Yonath passed away on August 31, 2026 at 87. (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) Yonath,…

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An illustration of a hydrogen pipeline. Hydrogen is emerging as an important new fuel because its combustion does not directly release carbon dioxide. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, have developed a chemical compound that releases hydrogen and methane when heated moderately. Per the team,…

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In this photo taken on August 17, 2021, a polar bear is seen on ice floes in the British Channel in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. | Photo Credit: AFP The decision was expected to take ​minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t…

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For hundreds of years, science has operated with a social contract: science develops knowledge that improves the human condition and expands the range of what is possible while society provides public funds, infrastructure, and institutional support. Sustained investments in research have paid dividends to society, in the form of inventions and discoveries, new technologies, and…

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Representative photo. | Photo Credit: File photo Unusual rains of 2024 could be earth’s new normal The year 2024 experienced a record-breaking number of heavy and extreme rainfall events worldwide, a new study has confirmed. But unlike previous strong El Niño years, 2024 also featured unusual simultaneous warming across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans that,…

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Some fish can switch sex more than once over a lifetime. In lizards, genetically male hatchlings can be born looking and functioning as females. In some frogs, genetically female individuals can develop into fertile males. This phenomenon is called sex reversal. It is well documented in the animal kingdom, from invertebrates to amphibians to birds,…

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