Ten years after launching as a bold winter experiment, Beaker Street Festival is entering a new era. The Hobart-born science ...

Many biological functions are regulated by the switching on and off of mechanisms triggered by the matching of a keyhole ...

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) organised open campus day to celebrate National Science Day observed on February 28 ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

The promise of the student who rises from a Vidya Bharati classroom to claim a place in the civil services is the nation’s promise.

Traces of ancient life on Mars can persist for tens of millions of years in the ice, even under the influence of cosmic radiation. This conclusion was reached by scientists from NASA and the ...

A global database of nuclear physics discoveries spanning more than a century has ranked three University of Surrey physicists among the world’s top 10 for discovering and characterising nuclear ...

Understanding how a healthy brain works can provide insight into how it fails, too. Scientists hope that studying organoids derived from humans with neurodevelopmental disorders — particularly ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Cells were long believed to safeguard nuclear contents, releasing them only during cell death. Extracellular DNA was thought ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...