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 ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of professionals in the field of modern medicine. The diseases of other organ systems are usually deemed to be more important than a ...

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 ...

New Delhi: A recent study by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature has found that the top 20% of high expenditure households in India generate nearly seven times the carbon emissions compared ...

Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world’s largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

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 ...

Representative image of a ‘Miyawaki forest’. Photo: BemanHerish/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It was half past midnight as we peeled our eyes off our computer screens. My colleague and I leaned back ...

The authors’ research in multiple cities focuses on spaces of nature and how different people access them – men v. women, privileged v. oppressed caste groups, etc. In Delhi, while conducting surveys ...

A woman wearing a mask sits near a near deserted bank of the Ganga river in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in Varanasi, March 20, 2020. Photo: PTI. The Ganga is clean, in some places so clean as ...

Popular histories of technology are usually histories of successful inventors. Often, it involves a lone male maverick at work, far from the machinations of the world. This entrepreneurial streak in ...

An illustration of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the December 1892 edition of The Adventure of the Silver Blaze. Source: Strand Magazine, public domain The mysterious root poison devil’s foot root ...