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The monsoon is expected to hit the Kerala coast in a week. And this year, the question on every mind is what will the rains do to the coronavirus?According to early-stage studies from a group of scien...

Hurricanes pick up speedIn almost every region of the world where hurricanes form, their maximum sustained winds are getting stronger. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Three Indian astronomers have discovered a drumbeat of magnetic explosions across the face of the sun in an advance towards resolving a decades-old mystery of why the corona, the sun’s atmosphere, i...

The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two Nasa astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with less than 17 minutes to go in the countdown on Wednesday because of thunderclouds ...

For those philosophically pondering the possibility of a virus having emerged to “fix” the world, here is more food for thought: the novel coronavirus or Sars-Cov2 is killing far more men than wom...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, have developed ultraviolet LEDs that have the ability to decontaminate surfaces — and potentially air and water — that have come in ...

For decades, the bestselling vehicles in the US have been pick-up trucks. But there will always be companies that try to upend the status quo, powered by idealistic thinking and, ideally, deep pockets...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has grabbed headlines with his controversial assertion that Covid-19 was caused not by a natural virus but one that was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory. Gadkari’s c...

Two to tangoThe co-evolution of theory and experiments – when the two tango well – is what clicks. I saw this up close while pursuing my PhD in neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Sc...

Sumit Mukherjee, 63, is an invisible victim of the coronavirus. On the evening of April 28, Mukherjee, my former colleague and friend, complained of breathlessness and uneasiness in the chest. He had ...