A matter of numbers

We can also expect India's population to grow steadily older. Thus the prospect that we are staring at: A population that ages, that will grow before it starts shrinking.

And just so, we age gracefully

5 min read . 29 Mar 2024

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope between Nashik and Pune.

Effectively a monster: the SKAO

5 min read . 02 Feb 2024

The Earth’s radius is 6,371km. So even the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, which penetrated to a depth of over 12,000m, completed less than 0.2% of the journey to the centre of our world. (Nasa)

Journey to the certainty of death

5 min read . 26 Jan 2024

Aditya-L1 will be stationed at the first Lagrangian point, which is what the L1 in the name of the spacecraft means.
(Kiren Rijiju X)

The point where Aditya stays put, almost

5 min read . 11 Jan 2024

Carl Friedrich Gauss

2024: Year of the tetrahedrals and triangles

5 min read . 04 Jan 2024

Scientists showed that their bees used “less than” and “greater than” to understand that zero means nothing.

Bees understand zero means nothing

5 min read . 21 Dec 2023

$Pi is an “irrational” number, which means it cannot be expressed as a fraction. In this bill, the tip is $3.14, and 3.14 is, of course, the fraction 314/100—close to but not actually pi. Accurate to the first 10 places after the decimal point, pi is 3.1415926536.$ Premium

The moment when you add pi

5 min read . 08 Dec 2023

A crane carries a part of drilling machine as rescue operation enters its final phase, for workers trapped in the Silkyara under construction road tunnel, days after it collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on Wednesday. (AFP)

The 41 men stuck in the tunnel

5 min read . 23 Nov 2023

To monitor how the brain behaves when faced with an estimation task, naturally we cannot simply implant electrodes into the brains of living humans.

Less than four at one blow

5 min read . 17 Nov 2023

The claim of a cosmic airburst event over the Ohio River valley has been retracted after subsequent papers refuted the evidence presented in a paper by Kenneth Tankersley and his team. Ralph and Dagmar Neuhäuser and Kevin C. Nolan questioned the evidence, leading to doubts about the conclusions of Tankersley's paper.

The comet exploded, or it didn’t

5 min read . 09 Nov 2023

Lotus 1-2-3 grew 640 times larger in 17 years, outpacing hardware expansion. (Photo: iStock)

The many victims of bloat

5 min read . 26 Oct 2023

Fairy circles in the Marienflusstal area in Namibia.

Those circles in the sand

5 min read . 19 Oct 2023

Some scientists think that there are birds that, responding to rising temperatures, will fly faster while migrating in search of cooler places.

To migrate or not to migrate

5 min read . 13 Oct 2023

Albert Einstein.

Wither, scientific temperament?

5 min read . 23 Sep 2023

A view of Didymos, Dimorphos and the plume coming off of Dimorphos after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, made impact. (Reuters)

Students watch an orbit shorten

5 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Doug Lenat and the search for AI

5 min read . 07 Sep 2023

France's Caroline Garcia during Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in 2023. (AFP)

The untold story of the little finger

5 min read . 31 Aug 2023

India took a walk on the moon,” the state-run Indian Space Research Organization said, adding that the Chandrayan-3 Rover would conduct experiments over 14 days

Above moon, a moment of stillness

5 min read . 24 Aug 2023

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across. If some advanced civilization has figured out how to travel at even a tenth of the speed of light, its members will need a million years to traverse the galaxy. (Nasa)

Life in universe, the immortal paradox

5 min read . 18 Aug 2023

The Indian Technomac financial fraud was one of the biggest in the state as per records and was being investigated by the different departments of Himachal Pradesh for the past over four years.

Seeing patterns where none appear

5 min read . 11 May 2023