A Landsat 8 photo of snow in the Sahara desert, near the Algerian town of Aïn Séfra. Photo: NASA Algeria’s Tassili N’Ajjer plateau is Africa’s largest national park. Among its vast sandstone ...

The WHO’s 2022 report shows COVID-19 has set back the progress made in TB by several years around the world. TB incidence rate rose by 3.6% between 2020 and 2021, reversing declines of about 2% per ...

People holding placards at a ‘March for Science’ protest in August 2017. Credit: PTI In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments ...

Representative image. Photo: JAFAR AHMED/Unsplash Globally, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” of the rich, they have ...

Ice in the Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska and Siberia. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by the 2030s, even if we do a good job of reducing emissions ...

Camels, llamas, alpacas, sharks, rays and their relatives make unusual antibodies that researchers are investigating for studying — and fighting — human diseases. Photo: Knowable Magazine Every four ...

It may be true, but you might be surprised that Big Oil is largely responsible for the fact that you know this. In the early aughts, British Petroleum (today BP) created an advertising campaign that ...

A barn owl and a tiger. Representative image. Photos: Hari K Patibanda/Flickr, CC BY 2.0, gawnesco/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Collage: The Wire Science In general, conservation has had the unfortunate ...

Quantum entanglement is still a subject of physics research but also a component of commercial technologies and plays a starring role in the quantum information processing industry. The 2022 Nobel ...

Russia announced in late July that it would withdraw from the International Space Station – a symbol of science diplomacy for the past two decades – after 2024. The world-shattering science-relevant ...

It’s very likely that, even with the best intentions, a large human presence on another world like Mars will produce substantial amounts of garbage. The best that we can do is to figure out the least ...

Photo: Jan Huber/Unsplash The International Energy Agency published a report entitled ‘Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022’ last month. It said that the rapid economic growth in most Southeast Asian ...