Research Matters

^{A woman cooking food using improved cookstoves [Image credits: Udaipur Urja Initiatives]}

^{Snapshot of simulation showing two black holes colliding with each other. [Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons]}

Astronomers detect gravitational waves from the merging of neutron stars and black holes, but no electromagnetic waves.

^{A Hoolock Gibbon from Meghalaya [Image Credits: Programme HURO / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]}

The specimen, which is millions of years older than any previously known fossil, highlights their migration from Africa to Asia.

^{A pair of Crested treeswift with its egg [Image credits: Aditya Pal / CC BY-SA 4.0]}

Mathematical models show that males should be selected to care more for their offspring rather than desert them.

^{Some cryptic species of frogs in the Western Ghats (Left Top: Indirana semipalamata (Image credits: Saunak Pal), Left-Bottom: Indirana beddomii (Image Credits: Saunak Pal), Right-Top:}

^{Drought-stricken farmland in Karnataka [Image Credits: Pushkarv / CC BY-SA 3.0)}

With climate change occurring at an alarming speed, study finds that temperatures across many parts of the globe, including South Asia, could reach the breaking point by 2050.

In a new study, researchers devise a unique way to observe the process of devitrification under a microscope, in real-time. 

Studies have found that dogs tend to be friendlier in areas with frequent human activity. But what about their interaction with individuals of their kind in these areas? Do humans play a role here? A recent study from the Dog Lab IISER Kolkata has delved into the social interactions of dogs amongst themselves and with humans. 

A team of scientists from IIT Bombay have recently proposed a novel setup to carry out quantum information processing at room temperatures, using a stack of specially designed layered materials. 

In a recent study, researchers describe this new species of diatoms from the Mawsmai caves in Meghalaya.