A massive analysis of over 11 million scientific papers reveals that while industry involvement boosts the number of new ...

The Milky Way is a warped spiral galaxy. Our galaxy is a barred spiral about 120,000 light-years wide with a thick central bulge and sweeping spiral arms. Its disk is not perfectly flat: it bends and ...

A team of botanists has discovered a new plant species with uniquely hairy purple petals high in the alpine grasslands of the Sikkim Himalayas in India. Found during a recent expedition to document ...

A team of researchers has discovered a unique mechanism in molecular crystals that allows them to automatically heal deep cracks in just a few milliseconds. The team, including researchers from the ...

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild Indian rhesus macaques reveals two deeply separated lineages, suggesting the familiar ...

A comprehensive analysis of satellite data confirms that a massive landslide and subsequent glacier calving, rather than ...

Researchers at Ashoka University have discovered that a fruit fly's diet can drastically alter its ability to survive bacterial infections at higher temperatures. The study reveals that feeding female ...

As India celebrates National Technology Day to commemorate the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests (Operation Shakti) and honour achievements in science and engineering, the spotlight is increasingly shifting ...

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal, and Technische Universitat-Dresden, Germany, has unveiled a new framework to holistically assess the sustainability ...

Bangalore of the yesteryears was a city of gardens; cool, pleasant and green. In addition to the 2000+ species of trees -- some natural and some specifically planted -- individual gardens in small ...

Researchers from India and Sri Lanka have discovered two new species of fireflies in a remote, undisturbed forest of Meghalaya. The team, with researchers from Assam Don Bosco University, the ...