Research by Indian scientists has suggested that people infected with omicron after full immunisation with the AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines have significant immune responses that p...

“Why overdue? You’ve already joined this campaign through the first dose for your benefit and for societal benefit. Please accept the second dose, we’re sending reminders too,”...

Sections of India’s scientists amused themselves on Monday wondering whether and how to respond to a 2022 calendar produced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, that seeks to ...

The Himalayan glaciers are shrinking far more rapidly than glaciers elsewhere in the world and have already lost ice equivalent to that in the central European Alps, the Caucasus and Scandinavia combi...

Scientists have identified a unique mutation in the omicron variant’s genome that they say the virus likely picked up from a common cold virus or from segments of the human genome as it replicat...

Health researchers in South Africa on Friday claimed to have detected “clear, population-level” evidence of substantial immune evasion and re-infection by the new Covid-19 variant omicron....

A new coronavirus variant first detected in Botswana earlier this month has stirred concern among scientists and health authorities across the world because of its unusually large count and class of m...

Climate scientists harbour strong scepticism over whether governments will markedly slow down global warming despite pledges by leaders, a survey by the international science journal Nature has found....

At least 28 faculty members of IIT (ISM) have figured among the top 2 per cent scientists in a global list compiled by Standford University. Every year the Stanford University of US releases data for...

The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David WC MacMillan of Princeton University. They were cited fo...