Category: Science

The elephant named Suvarna engages with her calf ‘Sudha’ at Bannerghatta National Park, 2020. | Photo Credit: File photo All living beings communicate. In honeybees, communicative signals in the form of a wiggle dance transmit information on the location of flowers. Recipient bees decode this information and use it to guide their behaviour. Human language…

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Policemen stand near the wreckage of a car that caught fire, subsequently engulfing a house nearby, in Indore, March 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: A fire tore through a house in Indore on March 18, killing eight people including two children. An electric vehicle (EV) charging point outside the house…

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The ongoing war in West Asia has plunged the world into a deep energy crisis. In India, the availability of domestic fuel, LPG, has been hit due by the disruption in supplies from the Persian Gulf. The global energy crisis is reminiscent of the Oil Shock of 1973 when members of the Organisation of Petroleum…

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The mind is more than just a bunch of cells. | Photo Credit: cdd20/Unsplash Evidence points to the human mind not being a physical object you can touch but a process the brain creates. Scientists generally agree the mind arises from the complex activity of the physical brain. The foundation of the mind consists of…

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Quantum systems like atoms or electrons can exist in superpositions: a particle can be in two states at once until it is measured. Causality itself can be the same way. | Photo Credit: Valeria Saggio/University of Vienna In everyday life, cause always comes before effect. A window won’t break before you throw a ball at…

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