Ranjini Raghunath

Researchers believe the time has come to acknowledge that curcumin does more than just flavour sambar.

The lensing of waves is helping us look deeper into space

Gursaran Pran Talwar blazed trails in indigenous vaccine development

G Padmanaban has spent decades trying to understand the lifecycle of the malaria parasite and develop a cure

With a mushrooming elderly population, research on ageing is gathering steam

Digital technologies are changing research and treatment

India is the world’s tuberculosis capital, accounting for 27 percent of the 10 million patients globally. Understanding how drug resistance emerges and improving vaccine efficacy are key to fighting this disease.

Replacing wild herbivores with domestic grazers in the Spiti Valley is drastically influencing the numbers of ground-dwelling arthropods as well as ticks and mites that can spread vector-borne diseases.

What we know so far about the rare neurological disorder that has triggered a health alarm in parts of India.

Researchers at IISc have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be used to build lunar habitats, if they get damaged in the moon’s harsh environment.

In 1930, a farm boy discovered what was formerly our solar system's ninth planet.

Poor weather in Paris sparked the discovery of a new property of matter.

Tweaking the spacing between cancer cell binding domains on the ECM can boost the efficiency of ultrasound treatment applied to kill the cells.

An eccentric American farmer was one of the earliest pioneers of wireless communication.

In 1967, a flamboyant South African physician made medical history when he performed the first human heart transplant.