NISAR – a portmanteau for the NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture global radar earth observation satellite — will only be the latest collaboration between the two space agencies.
Rejected in Britain, celebrated by Einstein, here's the story of S.N. Bose, the Indian physicist who formulated quantum statistics, now a bedrock theory in condensed matter...
Jayant Narlikar has been one of the most prolific scientists, and science communicators India has ever produced. The octogenarian had died at his residence in Pune.
Germany phased out nuclear energy after protests and nuclear disasters elsewhere shook public faith. France pushed ahead with centralized planning. Laid bare in this piece is...
The presence of an organic compound, dimethyl sulfide in an alien planet, has astronomers wondering whether they have indirectly confirmed life thriving outside our solar system.
David Wiltshire, a cosmologist at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury, proposed an alternate model that gets rid of dark energy entirely. But in doing so, it...
While governments are becoming more aware of solar storms, space weather still remains a low priority
As the world celebrates the 131st birth anniversary of S.N. Bose, EdPublica explores the theoretical physicist's unparalleled contributions to the field of quantum mechanics
Some top journals can be incredibly difficult to access, without paying for subscriptions, that are exorbitant to say the least. Indian scientists know this better than...
In this blog post, Ed Publica's Science Editor, Karthik Vinod, skims over some of the state-funded science projects in India that existed before and after independence.
