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Scientists have shown that helium atoms can be entangled through their movement. Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Scientists have shown that helium atoms can be entangled through their movement. A team from Australia and the U.S. collided clouds of helium atoms together to create pairs that shared a single quantum state. The achievement … Read more

Albert Einstein (left) in conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Picture taken in 1949 when Dr. Oppenheimer was director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives In the late 1930s, in a small corner of Thayyur, Thrissur, a couple had their third girl child, and no … Read more

Parkinson’s disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide. A patient struggles to perform coordinated movement, requiring conscious effort and attention even for a simple task like buttoning a shirt. Natural movements like walking and turning have to be planned as the person will struggle to start and stop actions. Over time, the person will … Read more

Low voltage: An electric vehicle charging station at Freedom Park in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J The surge in global oil prices after the U.S.-Iran war has exposed the differing levels of energy vulnerability in Asia’s two largest economies, India and China. Since the conflict began on February 28, crude and refined fuel prices … Read more

Vector cartoon stick figure drawing conceptual illustration. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Mosquitoes annoy almost everyone. And sometimes, you might notice that you are getting far more mosquito bites than your friend sitting right next to you in the same room. It can feel unfair, but let’s clear up a common myth first: it is … Read more

Professor Einstein (left) tells Dr. Robert Oppenheimer about his attempts to explain matters in terms of space. Picture taken in 1949 when Dr. Oppenheimer was Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives In the late 1930s, in a small corner of Thayyur, Thrissur, a couple had … Read more

What is “The Wow!” signal? | Photo Credit: Unsplash Images If you are a distinguished member of the “I think about extraterrestrial life all the time!” fraternity and don’t know about ‘The Wow!” signal, then you have some catching up to do. E.T Evolved from the ideas of the ‘alien’, the SETI or Search for … Read more

West Bengal’s higher education system is increasingly being defined by an unusual feature: an exceptionally high reliance on temporary teachers. While contractual and ad-hoc faculty are not uncommon across Indian universities, the scale observed in West Bengal is far beyond the national norm. Evidence from the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) reveals that … Read more

Jungle cats (Felis chaus) are found across diverse habitats, from grasslands and wetlands to deserts. They’re present across Asia, with large populations in India and Nepal, among others. The IUCN Red List lists the species as being of ‘least concern’. This has led to a “misconception that they are doing fine”, Kathan Bandyopadhyay, a postdoctoral … Read more

India’s relationship with fragrance is ancient, intimate, and profoundly sophisticated. Long before perfume became a global industry, long before it was bottled, branded, advertised, and sold in department stores, fragrance in India was understood as a lived technology-deeply embedded in medicine, ritual, daily grooming, aesthetics, seasonal rhythms, and even spiritual practice. Scent was never merely … Read more

An illustration of the RNA called mRNA. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In a study published in the journal Clean Water on March 28, scientists reported that extracellular RNA (exRNA) from bacteria can persist in disinfected drinking water. They also found that by studying the exRNA, they could figure out what the bacteria were doing … Read more

Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. Representative image. | Photo Credit: AP Microgravity can alter sperm’s ability to navigate Researchers used a device that mimicked the weightlessness of space to check how microgravity affected human, mouse, and pig cells. They found … Read more

Ever since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, the first planet of the solar system — Mercury — has also become its smallest. Mercury might be the smallest planet orbiting the sun, but studying it is no mean feat. In fact, it is quite the opposite, as studying Mercury is quite a challenge.  Did … Read more

Psychological safety is the condition underneath all the others, the ground on which everything else gets built [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived. … Read more

Water Storage Pot made up of Terracotta Clay Summers are here, and with them comes an endless thirst. We drink more water than usual and cold water feels almost magical in the heat. Quick fun fact: when you drink cold water, it absorbs heat from your body as it warms up, helping lower your core … Read more

A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks. | Photo Credit: The Hindu GUWAHATI A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-G) have developed energy-efficient bricks designed to keep buildings naturally cool, offering a solution for sustainable construction. The researchers are Bitupan Das, … Read more