Amal Chandra on the centrality of ‘scientific temper’ in free India’s national imagination, and its erosion in present-day ...

National Science Day 2026 marks the Raman Effect anniversary with a youth-focused innovation theme. But how did a simple light experiment reshape modern science and inspire India’s future ambitions?

The scientific method is a mathematical and experimental technique that is used in sciences to build a hypothesis and testing ...

Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever ...

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

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called AI a transformative tool for science and a force multiplier for human ingenuity at the India AI Summit. He said Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...