Storms interacting with Chennai’s urban environment consistently deposited their peak rainfall 16-20 km inland, whereas storms over rural areas peaked closer to the coast, within 8-12 km. Urbanisation thus plays a decisive role in altering the spatial distribution of rainfall, particularly by shifting the zone of heaviest precipitation farther inland
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Let’s be clear: not all tree-planting is good. In Rajasthan’s Bikaner district, for instance, climate schemes involving tree planting have led to plummeting groundwater levels, soil acidification, and the loss of native grasses vital to both wildlife and pastoralists
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Whole-genome sequencing of 2,762 Indians has unravelled the layers of ancestry, high intermixing with Neanderthals and Denisovans — which allowed the reconstruction of roughly half of the Neanderthal genome and one-fifth of the Denisovan genome using only Indian genomes — and high endogamy in India resulting in harmful mutations in some groups.
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With a staggering 1.44 million zero-dose children in 2023, and only about nearly reaching the 2019 level of 1.4 million, can India reduce the number of zero-dose children by half of the 2019 level by 2030 to meet the IA2030 target?
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Behind every dish containing a fish, prawn, or other seafood, lies a delicate ecological balance: healthy populations of these marine resources replenish themselves only when spawning habitats are protected and harvest pressures kept in check
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While exclusively relying on ChatGPT showed concerning outcomes, participants who wrote essays without any assistance and then began using ChatGPT showed higher memory recall, efficient tool use, strong re-engagement and enhanced neural connectivity. But participants who first used ChatGPT to write essays and then moved to unaided writing underperformed cognitively
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The study achieved “significant improvement” in hypocentral location of five earthquakes that occurred before the installation of the world-wide standardized seismograph network (WWSSN)
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To attract senior scientists from other countries, India needs a strong, stable commitment to science, which means not only much more funding but also more stable funding, much better infrastructure and, just as importantly, insulating science from politics and excessive bureaucratic rules and regulations
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The long-awaited reforms to the procurement processes — General Financial Rules, Government e-Marketplace, and Global Tender Enquiry — address the bureaucratic bottlenecks that for years hampered the scientific community’s ability to conduct world-class research
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Perfume performance has traditionally been explained through skin chemistry — pH, sebum, moisture, and temperature. But these traits are heavily
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Russell’s viper venom show variations based on biogeography. So, antivenom efficacy is low for Russell’s viper in North India. Studies carried out in mice have demonstrated that two approved drugs were effective in countering systemic and lethal effects of the venom either individually or in combination from across India.
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Birds do not crash into aircraft on purpose. They are drawn to places we have built airports near garbage dumps, slaughterhouses, or feeding sites; due to poor urban planning, this is a commonplace in countries like India
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If seven Indian universities were among the 17 that belonged to the red flag category initially, as per current data based on 1,500 most-publishing universities, the number of Indian universities in the red flag category has swelled to 32
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