Ecological droughts are on the rise in India's pristine forests and croplands, driven primarily by meteorological aridity and ocean warming, posing a major threat to the country's sustainability and food security.

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Mumbai

Researchers have shown how even a few times of selective tree-cutting impacts biodiversity and carbon storage of the Andaman forests

Mumbai

Researchers have demonstrated how a magnetised catalyst can speed up hydrogen production while bringing down the energy cost.

Mumbai

A new cooling model gave better predictions of the strength and ductility of cast iron

Manesar

Researchers have found how cancer cells hoodwink the biological clock controls and use them to promote tumour growth.

Mysore

Researchers identify the factors affecting snow leopard density in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh.

Do you recollect knowing axioms and proving theorems in your high-school mathematics class? Most theorems start as conjectures — a proposition that is believed to be true but without enough formal proof. Over time, mathematicians use the axioms to prove the conjectures. Proving or disproving conjectures can be challenging, sometimes taking centuries. ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, which states that no three positive integers can satisfy the equation an+bn=cn where n>2, although sounds straightforward, took 350 years to prove!

Bengaluru

Researchers have studied the characteristics of a natural dye extracted from Indigofera tinctoria leaves.

Bengaluru

Researchers have sealed the mathematical gaps between two seemingly different approaches explaining particle interactions.

There was a time when stars in the night sky were a simile for infinity — one could see so many spluttered across a black blanket that counting them would take a lifetime! Fast forward to today, the night sky is lit not by the moon or stars but by city lights. Indiscriminate use of artificial light — from light bulbs in buildings to sodium lamps on streets to glaring neon billboards — has killed the joy of stargazing. It is estimated that about 83% of the world’s population lives in areas contaminated by light pollution.

Bengaluru

Researchers have identified two groups of genes that switch activity and help cancer cells evade therapy and spread aggressively.

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