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A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

A fish fossil from the Araripe basin on display in the Santana do Cariri Museum, Brazil. Photo: Aline M. Ghilardi A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way ...

The Moon. Photo: mmirrorless/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. When dabbling with the laws of motion in the 17th century, Isaac Newton realised that it’s possible to send an object from Earth into space. That is, he ...

Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helmsman S. Somanath’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern scientific discoveries and understanding have gained far greater currency after ...

To feel small, all we have to do is look up. The Sun, the Moon, the stars, the planets and the Milky Way are evidence enough that Earth is not all that is. And for as long as humans have had words, we ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

But, a new report on India’s forensic science system finds that there are large vacancies in government forensic labs, funding delays and underutilisation of budgets, and need for more space and ...

My former student Anindita Bhadra recently invited me to speak to the participants (MSc and PhD students) of a workshop on science communication that she had organised under the auspices of Cogito 137 ...

Khasi customs forbid tree-cutting in the law kyntang – the sacred groves and forests – and also disallow anyone from taking anything, even a leaf, out. At the root of it all is the Khasi pantheistic ...

A rare humpback whale sighting off the coast of Sri Lanka, February 19, 2011. Photo: Navodya Ekanayake/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (horizontally flipped by The Wire Science). It was a cool ...