When chemists design drug candidates, shape matters enormously. Many active pharmaceutical ingredients contain branched ...

At 8.25 pm on April 6, inside a heavily shielded complex along Tamil Nadu’s coast, a quiet but defining moment unfolded in ...

Even if you have not been exposed formally to the “scala naturae” (loosely translated, “the great chain of being”), you have been deeply influenced by it. Rooted in Greek philosophy and assimilated ...

An important scientific achievement for India in the past week was the ‘going critical’ of India’s indigenously designed ...

India's PFBR at Kalpakkam achieved first criticality on 6 April 2026. The full story of a 70-year nuclear gamble, the 22-year ...

Opioids such as morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl provide pain relief by binding to mu-opioid receptors, which are specialized proteins in nerve cells. When opioids bind to these receptors in the brain ...

India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained a historic milestone. The 500 MWe reactor, which produces ...

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

On the evening of 6 April 2026, inside a quiet control room along the Bay of Bengal, a set of numbers crossed an invisible threshold.

Goat milk has been used around the world for thousands of years, and today it’s becoming more popular in the United States, ...