New Delhi: A recent study by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature has found that the top 20% of high expenditure households in India generate nearly seven times the carbon emissions compared ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most well-known quantum communications application is quantum key distribution, which allows someone to securely distribute encryption keys.

The struggle of indigenous populations for environmental justice involves self-determination, colonialism, racism, sovereignty and environmental destruction.

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On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month. While the ...

The following article is an extended excerpt from ‘Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free’, a report prepared by researchers with the Basic Research Community for Physics (BRCP). It was ...

Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Prime Minister Modi announced the rollout of booster doses. In reply to a series of RTI applications ...

Mauritius is one of the world’s largest exporters of monkeys for the global research industry – primarily, to the US and Europe.

While it is heartening to see the momentum towards settling on a suitable OA approach, the 'one nation, one subscription' scheme is a curious proposition for India.

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 ...

A statue of John Henry alongside State Highway 12 in West Virginia, US. Photo: Ken Thomas/Wikimedia Commons, public domain. This story was originally published by ProPublica. COVID-19 has killed many ...