A massive analysis of over 11 million scientific papers reveals that while industry involvement boosts the number of new ...

The Milky Way is a warped spiral galaxy. Our galaxy is a barred spiral about 120,000 light-years wide with a thick central bulge and sweeping spiral arms. Its disk is not perfectly flat: it bends and ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered a new species of leopard gecko from the rocky hills of Bihar, India. Found during a wildlife survey on the outskirts of the Kaimur ...

A team of researchers has discovered a unique mechanism in molecular crystals that allows them to automatically heal deep cracks in just a few milliseconds. The team, including researchers from the ...

A team of botanists has discovered a new plant species with uniquely hairy purple petals high in the alpine grasslands of the Sikkim Himalayas in India. Found during a recent expedition to document ...

Researchers at Ashoka University have discovered that a fruit fly's diet can drastically alter its ability to survive bacterial infections at higher temperatures. The study reveals that feeding female ...

A comprehensive analysis of satellite data confirms that a massive landslide and subsequent glacier calving, rather than ...

Mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild Indian rhesus macaques reveals two deeply separated lineages, suggesting the familiar ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of freshwater crab beneath the agricultural fields of West Bengal. Named Indopotamon alipurduarense, the elusive crustacean was unearthed by researchers Ram ...

Scientists at the University of Madras in Chennai have discovered a microscopic freshwater alga that can effectively break down some of the most stubborn plastics polluting our waterways. Their ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have found highly erratic and localised temperature shifts across South Asia, revealing that the region is heavily deviating from ...