Researchers use a Disaster Intensity Index (DII) to assess disaster impacts on state budgets, offering a roadmap for better disaster preparedness and economic protection.
Researchers have shown how even a few times of selective tree-cutting impacts biodiversity and carbon storage of the Andaman forests
Researchers have demonstrated how a magnetised catalyst can speed up hydrogen production while bringing down the energy cost.
A new cooling model gave better predictions of the strength and ductility of cast iron
Researchers have found how cancer cells hoodwink the biological clock controls and use them to promote tumour growth.
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!
Researchers have studied the characteristics of a natural dye extracted from Indigofera tinctoria leaves.
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.
