Thunderstorms create large amounts of electricity that we see as lightning. Under these storms, scientists believed that electricity would flow through trees, giving them a dull ultraviolet glow, and affect the surrounding environment. These discharges are called coronae. However, no one measured these ‘glows’, predicted nearly a century ago, until recently. In a new study...
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March 9, 2026March 9, 2026Science & Tech
Daily Quiz: On firebombings of World War II
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March 8, 2026March 8, 2026Science & Tech
ISRO and ESA sign agreement for Earth Observation missions
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have jointly signed an agreement on ‘ESA-ISRO Arrangement concerning Joint Calibration and Validation Activities and Scientific Studies for Earth Observation Missions’. The agreement was signed on March 4 by M. Ganesh Pillai, scientific secretary, ISRO, and Simonetta Cheli, director, Earth Observation Programme, ESA,...
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March 8, 2026March 8, 2026Science & Tech
Global warming picking up pace, study says
A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters has confirmed that global warming has entered a phase of significant acceleration. For decades, the earth’s temperature rose at a steady rate of about 0.2 °C per decade. Recent record-breaking years sparked a debate among scientists about whether this pace was increasing but natural events such as...
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March 8, 2026March 8, 2026Children, Science & Tech
Women’s Day Special | ‘The greatest freedom is intellectual independence’
Meet D. Indumathi, a physicist who has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most elusive particles, neutrinos. Recently retired, she built her career in high-energy physics, asking questions that most of us wouldn’t even know how to frame. Physics is often seen as intimidating — abstract, mathematical, distant. But Indumathi approaches it with clarity...
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March 8, 2026March 8, 2026Science & Tech
How technology is transforming healthcare
Healthcare is entering a phase where the boundaries between medicine, technology, and data are rapidly dissolving. Digital health, once confined to electronic medical records and teleconsultations, now underpins diagnostics, drug development, population health management, chronic disease care, and patient engagement. This has not only transformed how care is delivered, but also significantly widened the range...
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March 7, 2026March 7, 2026Health, Science & Tech
Breast cancer cases in India have more than doubled in three decades, experts say
Kolkata Breast cancer cases in India have more than doubled over the past three decades, experts said at an international oncology conference in Kolkata on Friday (March 7, 2026), while warning that gaps in access to treatment continue to affect many patients. Experts participating in the India edition of the St. Gallen International Breast Cancer Conference said that there is...
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March 7, 2026March 7, 2026Science & Tech
Massive experiments could soon reveal more about nature of ‘ghostly’ particles
Imagine you are given three gumballs of different flavours. You are told that one of them is heavier than the others, and one is lighter. But which is which? Your task is made difficult by the fact that these gumballs weigh nearly nothing. And sometimes they swap flavours. Oh, and when you try to pick...
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March 6, 2026March 6, 2026Science & Tech
Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quantum computing, says Swiss foundation head Marilyne Andersen
Quantum computing is in a nascent stage of development and therefore this is a time that experts in the field and scientists should be engaging with diplomats to be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, international collaboration, and be “concretely ready” when the technology matures, Marilyne Andersen, director general, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator...
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March 6, 2026March 6, 2026Science & Tech
Scientists, diplomats should discuss evolution of quantum computing: Marilyne Andersen
Quantum computing is in a nascent stage of development and therefore this is a time that experts in the field and scientists should be engaging with diplomats to be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, international collaboration, and be “concretely ready” when the technology matures, Marilyne Andersen, director general, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator...
