F or nearly 150 years, the world’s metrologists have agreed on strict definitions for units of measurement through the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, known by its French acronym, ...

I come from a family of scientists, but I shied away from studying science myself. Yet, in a happy irony, it turned out that the most important intellectual collaboration of my life was with a scienti...

Scientists in India have recorded heart defects and skeletal deformities in zebrafish embryos exposed to river water contaminated with microplastics that they say could be fresh evidence for the poten...

Scientists on Thursday announced findings that appear to challenge the Standard Model of physics, a bedrock theory developed in the 1970s that explains nature at its most fundamental level and has hit...

Research by Indian scientists has suggested that foetal brain cells detect select sounds for long-term retention much earlier than hitherto assumed and could explain maternal voice recognition by...

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Indian scientists have identified a naturally-occurring biochemical in the human body as a potential broad-acting antiviral agent that could serve as a shield against multiple viruses, including influ...

The survey has also calculated the ratio of women speakers at science and engineering conferences held between June 2020 and August 2021. It has found that 114 (39 per cent) of 293 conferences had no ...

Two networks of health groups and doctors on Wednesday decried what some described as the Narendra Modi government’s “fascination” for electronic health records while major public he...