It is important to eliminate barriers to equality, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion to encourage a positive culture that will benefit the Nation’s scientific progress and achievement.

Different materials behave in different ways. But what makes a material suitable for a particular application? The quality of all materials depends mainly on their composition – the concentration of constituent elements and their crystal structure.

The year 2022 is the Birth Centennial of India-born Nobel Laureate biologist Har Gobind Khorana, whom we know as the ‘Interpreter of the language of genetic code’ or ‘Decoder of genetic code’.

The present sequencing of the genome of the Indian cobra may be a big step forward in this direction. It may help speed up the arrival of snakebite treatments that are safer and more effective than what Calmette came up with in 1895.

Three historians have reported that the lost star coordinates calculated by Hipparchus around 130-129 BC can be found in one of the leaves of a palimpsest (a manuscript which is cleaned of older writings for reuse) of antiquity recovered from a monastery of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

The 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Alain Aspect of the University of Paris, John Clauser of Caltech and Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna who have demystified the weird properties of particles that are in entangled states.

Svante Paabo, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, took up this challenge. His work started the fiercely competitive field of palaeogenomics.

Not surprisingly, journals round the world are increasingly marking their presence on social media channels.

In India, 5G services were formally launched on 1 October 2022. The 5th generation of wireless cellular networks may be its biggest incremental jump. What does that mean for the way we live, work and play? 

Karl Barry Sharpless has been jointly honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Morten P. Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Carolyn  R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, CA, USA.