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Happy New Year 2026!

Happy New Year 2026!

Staff
The Necessity of the Blue Economy for India’s Development

Oceans, being crucibles of biodiversity, living and non-living resources, and a storehouse of renewable energy, can be sustainably utilised. BE is significant for India as the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean border it. 

Sridhar D Iyer and Sainandan S Iyer
COP30: Fossil Fuel Divide in Belém

COP30 in Belém, ten years after the Paris Agreement, succeeded in creating some useful institutional tools, particularly the Just Transition Mechanism, the Belém Health Action Plan, and the Tropical Forests Forever Facility.

Anil Pratap Singh
The Tilt

The tilt for the sensitivity towards trees. The tilt for a greener planet. The tilt for the beginning of a new human civilisation…

Monalisa Paul
The Co-Discoverer of the DNA Double-Helical Structure

His work and contributions have inspired generations of scientists and will continue to shape our understanding of life and genetics.

Tushar Kanti Nath
Crossing the Species Barrier: Bird Flu Spillover to Mammals and Humans in India

Emerging Risks and Preparedness.

Nirupama Vaid and Anil Kothari
Artificial Photosynthesis A Future Source of Clean Energy

It is a process that mimics natural photosynthesis to convert solar energy into chemical energy. The key approaches of it include photosynthetic water splitting, carbon dioxide reduction, and the creation of photo-electrochemical cells.

RC Parida and PK Ghosh
The Hemifusome: An Undercover Agent in the Cell Scientists discover a new cell organelle after 400 years of microscopy

This discovery speaks volumes about how science is done. Unlike the dry textbooks that spit out uninteresting facts in an uninteresting way, science in the real world is like a thriller movie.

Alok Ajakkala
IDPs: Dancing Proteins and the Search for New Therapies

“Not all proteins like to follow the rules. Some prefer to dance in chaos, and they might hold the key to curing our toughest diseases.”

Swati
The Chase for Iodin

Though the path of discovery was filled with claims and disputes, the end result shows the triumph of the human mind in unlocking one of the secrets of nature and placing before us the discovery of a new element, iodine, which is vital for our existence on the planet.

Ravindra Vaze