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Choices in research ethics
Volume 125, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2023
The grand challenge of earthquake prediction
Volume 125, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2023
Issue of enteric methane emissions from Indian livestock
Volume 125, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2023
Mainstreaming integrative medicine into modern healthcare
Volume 125, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2023
Remission of diabetes
Volume 124, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2023
Towards stewardship of oceans: Role of G20 countries
Volume 124, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2023
Melting glaciers unlock hidden contaminants
Volume 124, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2023
Climate smart agriculture – Renewing agricultural practices for food security
Volume 124, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2023
Geo-hazards in the Himalaya and remedial measures: some observations in the light of recent developments at Joshimath
Volume 124, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2023
Adoption of a rights retention policy by academic and research institutions in India: a door to open science
Volume 124, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2023
Green hydrogen for a sustainable and ‘aatmanirbhar’ India
Volume 124, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2023
India’s mineral exploration requirements in the twenty-first century
Volume 123, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2022
Potential nudging of transboundary water relations in the context of climate change
Volume 123, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2022
Future Earth and its prospects in South Asia
Volume 123, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2022
Tuberculosis: the silent pandemic
Volume 123, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2022
Insects for food, feed, pharmaceuticals and therapy: need for development
Volume 123, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2022
Climate change and adaptation in water sector in India
Volume 123, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2022
The existential threat posed by humid heat waves due to global warming
Volume 123, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2022
Thermal science and engineering: Quo Vadis?
Volume 123, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2022
The impact of global warming on the oceans
Volume 122, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2022
Managed retreat as an adaptation tool for inland and coastal flooding
Volume 122, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2022
Many facets of afforestation (tree planting) and climate change
Volume 122, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2022
India’s unsustainable water development
Volume 122, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2022
A framework for evaluating India’s net zero commitments
Volume 122, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2022
Need for machine learning applications in solid Earth geosciences in India
Volume 122, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2022
Coastal agriculture and aquaculture in India: outlooks in the context of climate change
Volume 122, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2022
BCG – one hundred years of solitude
Volume 122, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2022
Sea farming and saline water agriculture
Volume 122, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2022
COVID-19: India’s endemic phase heralds the beginning of the end of the pandemic
Volume 121, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2021
Plastics – don’t ban, but plan
Volume 121, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2021
Communicating science to the general public: role of scientists and science writers
Volume 121, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2021
Challenges in Indian higher education
Volume 121, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2021
Fate of Indian Geoheritage and GeoPark Bill
Volume 121, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2021
How to survive and excel as an academician in India
Volume 120, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2021
Understanding anthropogenic earthquakes
Volume 120, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2021
National strategy for landslide risk management
Volume 120, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2021
The case for hydrogen economy
Volume 120, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2021
Sustainable management of our coasts in the era of climate change
Volume 120, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2021
Traditional knowledge systems and new science policy thrust
Volume 120, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2021
Flood management in India
Volume 120, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2021
Addressing resilience to cyclones – a perspective
Volume 120, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2021
A perspective on water security in India
Volume 120, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2021
From digital technology to living machines
Volume 119, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2020
Sustainable agriculture in a changing world
Volume 119, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic: looking back, looking forward
Volume 119, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2020
COVID-19, structural biology and the march of science
Volume 119, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2020
Public ownership of research journals
Volume 119, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2020
Science close to checkmating COVID-19
Volume 119, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2020
Assessment and implementation of environmental flows
Volume 118, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2020
On interdisciplinarity
Volume 118, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2020
Academic and post-academic research, and national development
Volume 118, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2020
Will Coronavirus Pandemic eventually evolve as Pan-endemic?
Volume 118, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2020
The need to become science-friendly
Volume 118, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2020
Is ambient space a determinant of human health?
Volume 118, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2020
100 Years of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science
Volume 118, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2020
The Saha equation turns hundred
Volume 118, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2020
The science and economics of family farms
Volume 117, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2019
Indian astronomy in the next decade
Volume 117, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2019
Can anyone own the sky?
Volume 117, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2018
Ageing of academic institutions
Volume 117, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2019
Tradition versus modernity in biomedical research: the choices for India
Volume 117, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2019
Communicating environmental science to the public
Volume 117, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2019
Research and public universities
Volume 116, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2019
India to power the more widespread use of biosimilars?
Volume 116, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2019
India needs more policy research
Volume 116, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2019
Will our education system enable India to be a super-power any time soon?
Volume 116, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2019
Patient advocacy
Volume 116, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2019
Scientific progress - It takes a village
Volume 116, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2019
The simple matter of sustainability
Volume 116, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2019
Why are Indian research journals not making a mark? – The enemy is within
Volume 115, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2018
Cuba: a different kind of role model for biotechnology
Volume 115, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2018
Sustainability criteria for food security
Volume 115, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2018
Artificial intelligence policy: Need aggressive development with prudent regulation
Volume 115, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2018
Why should India invest in deep ocean research?
Volume 115, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2018
Helping university and college teachers
Volume 114, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2018
Managing India’s AIDS crisis in the 2000s: quantitative modelling had impact
Volume 114, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2018
Indian education: challenges
Volume 114, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2018
Engine
Volume 114, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2019
Aah! Aha! Ha-Ha!: Building a creative nation from the ground up
Volume 114, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2018
Genius in medicine
Volume 114, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2018
Regulatory harmonization: a view from India
Volume 114, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2018
India’s steel industry – quo vadis
Volume 114, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2018
Is ocean acidification from rising carbon dioxide a grave threat?
Volume 114, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2018
Indian science must attract more international students – opportunities for our Academics
Volume 113, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2017
Science, scientists, and society: renewing the dialogue
Volume 113, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2017
Evolution of higher education: are we future ready?
Volume 113, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2017
Future Earth: science for the people
Volume 113, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2017
Emphasis on scientific research – the flip side
Volume 113, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2017
Water resource management in India
Volume 113, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2017
What should drive the idea of conservation: emotions or economics?
Volume 113, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2017
Revamping higher education
Volume 113, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2017
Of launches and lunches
Volume 113, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2017
An age-old question
Volume 113, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2017
Supporting start-ups
Volume 113, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2017
An obsession with numbers: quantifying quality
Volume 113, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2017
Linear, no threshold model in radiation protection and safety: standards thrive on ‘assumptions’ and not on science-based evidence
Volume 112, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2017
Science in the post-truth era
Volume 112, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2017
The case for a broad undergraduate science degree
Volume 112, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2017
The obsession with being number one
Volume 112, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2017
The challenges of teaching undergraduate biology
Volume 112, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2017
Why is a solution to climate change, environmental degradation and the sustainability crisis eluding us?
Volume 112, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2017
Joy of discovery as a reason for pursuing a career in science
Volume 112, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2017
Climate smart agriculture: are we poised to outsmart climate change impacts?
Volume 112, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2017
Women in STEMM: involve the institutions!
Volume 112, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2017
Borders in science and nations are artificial. Should we have borders within India?
Volume 112, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2017
Indian human microbiome initiative: Indian-ness through the magnifying glass
Volume 112, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2017
For a science-based transformation of water policy
Volume 112, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2017
Earth Sciences for societal and economic benefits
Volume 111, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2016
The sociality of science
Volume 111, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2016
Institutions of higher education and research in India: do they need to take interest in school science education?
Volume 111, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2016
Food for all in the anthropocene era
Volume 111, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2016
Ecological wisdom in the new urban era
Volume 111, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2016
Surgical training
Volume 111, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2016
Feeling the ‘pulses’ for the second green revolution
Volume 111, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2016
A crisis in fundamental physics
Volume 111, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2016
Solar-DC: India towards energy independence
Volume 111, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2016
Fundamental and applied research for the ‘Make in India’ programme
Volume 111, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2016
Biomedical research in India: paradigm shift to translation
Volume 111, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2016
Rare diseases need our attention
Volume 111, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2016
Bengaluru’s reality: towards unlivable status with unplanned urban trajectory
Volume 110, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2016
Ayurvedic biology
Volume 110, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2016
Rediscovering our universities
Volume 110, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2016
The tale of two diseases – type-1 and type-2 diabetes mellitus
Volume 110, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2016
In search of vaccines against malaria
Volume 110, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2016
Seeing the universe in a new light
Volume 110, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2016
Ethics and Indian science
Volume 110, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2016
IISERs: emerging science universities of India
Volume 110, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2016
Bridging the gap between intentions and contributions requires determined effort
Volume 110, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2016
Are volcanic eruptions causing the current global warming?
Volume 110, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2016
Achieving the sustainable development goals
Volume 110, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2016
Should I return my Sahitya Akademi Award?
Volume 110, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2016
Why IMD got the seasonal forecast of 2015 southwest monsoon rainfall right
Volume 109, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2015
Industry–University collaboration – more bang for the same buck
Volume 109, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2015
Innovation – which way?
Volume 109, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2015
What can scientists/science administrators do for ‘Make in India’?
Volume 109, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2015
Affordable healthcare threatened! Concern for all stakeholders
Volume 109, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2015
One hundred years of general relativity: summary, status and prospects
Volume 109, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2015
Academic Phantoms
Volume 109, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2015
Damming the metric tide
Volume 109, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2015
Why do we do the science we do?
Volume 109, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2015
Recognizing spatial heterogeneity in aquifer distributions: lessons for sustainable groundwater management
Volume 109, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2015
Impetus to hydrology
Volume 109, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2015
Environmental noise control
Volume 109, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2015
Indian science and higher education: the way forward
Volume 108, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2015
Some reflections on science and discovery
Volume 108, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2015
What ails physics education in the country?
Volume 108, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2015
Support for science
Volume 108, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2015
Predatory journals and academic pollution
Volume 108, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2015
Four key areas for training the next-generation of global change researchers
Volume 108, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2015
Why not be an early-bird researcher?
Volume 108, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2015
United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 20 at Lima concluded: what next?
Volume 108, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2015
The ‘historic’ storm at the Mumbai Science Congress
Volume 108, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2015
Social dimensions of India’s space programme
Volume 108, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2015
Bibliometrics – problems and promises
Volume 108, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2015
‘Indovation’ for affordable excellence
Volume 108, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2015
Should we choose geoengineering to reverse global warming?
Volume 107, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2014
Who owns India?
Volume 107, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2014
Autonomy and the university
Volume 107, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2014
Evaluating scientists scientifically
Volume 107, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2014
Is particulate air pollution a price we must pay for progress?
Volume 107, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2014
Mathematics for the billion
Volume 107, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2014
Need for developing effective early warning systems for natural disasters using space technology
Volume 107, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2014
Who are ‘people of genius’?
Volume 107, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2014
The myth of falling standards: a lifelong counter-experience
Volume 107, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2014
Modern drug discovery and the Indian opportunity
Volume 107, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2014
The magic of automated recognition of handwriting
Volume 107, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2014
Role of International Years in meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge
Volume 107, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2014
Can planting new trees help to reduce global warming?
Volume 106, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2014
Our backyard wildlife: Challenges in coexisting with uneasy neighbours
Volume 106, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2014
El Niño and the summer monsoon of 2014
Volume 106, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2014
Scientific Authorship: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Volume 106, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2014
Science and the Missing Manifestos
Volume 106, Issue 08 | 25 April, 2014
Science in the service of a symbiotic society
Volume 106, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2014
Traditional knowledge, wisdom and Ayurceuticals interfacing with modern science – a boon for a healthy India tomorrow
Volume 106, Issue 05 | 10 March, 2014
From Millennium Development Goals to sustainable development solutions
Volume 106, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2014
Warming causes cooling! The recent cold event over North America
Volume 106, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2014
Inverting the pyramid of scientific hierarchy
Volume 106, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2014
Linear, no threshold model in low-dose radiobiology: ideology versus science
Volume 106, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2014
Vesicle traffic wins the Nobel
Volume 105, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2013
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013: Chemistry in cyberspace
Volume 105, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2013
Nobel Prize in Physics–2013: Triumph of mind over matter
Volume 105, Issue 10 | 25 November, 2013
Polio elimination: India’s success story
Volume 105, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2013
Why the hiatus in global warming in the last decade?
Volume 105, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2013
Sustainable materials based on aliphatic polyesters: teaching old chemistry some new tricks
Volume 105, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2013
Awakening to the Cosmic Dawn
Volume 105, Issue 06 | 25 September, 2013
Challenges of the Devastating Indian Landslides
Volume 105, Issue 05 | 10 September, 2013
International Linear Collider Project – A New Voyage in Elementary Particle Physics Research
Volume 105, Issue 04 | 25 August, 2013
‘National’ versus ‘International’ Journals
Volume 105, Issue 03 | 10 August, 2013
A Fine Balance: Making it Work for Women in Science
Volume 105, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2013
Predicting and Managing Extreme Rainfall
Volume 105, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2013
Crisis in the Universities: Increasing Funding Gap between Universities and National Laboratories/Scientific Research Institutions - Some solutions
Volume 91, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2006
Crisis in the Universities: Increasing funding gap between Universities and National Laboratories/Scientific Research Institutions
Volume 91, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2006
Back to the future
Volume 91, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2006
From Green Revolution to Evergreen Revolution: Pathways and Terminologies
Volume 91, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2006
Biomedical research in India can have a global impact provided…
Volume 91, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2006
Challenges fly in the wake of bird flu
Volume 90, Issue 12 | 25 June, 2006
Some Perspectives on Research in Mechanical Engineering
Volume 90, Issue 11 | 10 June, 2006
Reaching for the skies
Volume 90, Issue 10 | 25 May, 2006
Statistics in India Today - Past Perfect, Future Tense!
Volume 90, Issue 09 | 10 May, 2006
The International Linear Collider: A new paradigm for doing science globally
Volume 90, Issue 07 | 10 April, 2006
The other side is greener, or is it?
Volume 90, Issue 06 | 25 March, 2006
Some Reflections on the Pursuit and Evaluation of Science
Volume 90, Issue 04 | 25 February, 2006
Hottest decade: Early warning or false alarm?
Volume 90, Issue 03 | 10 February, 2006
A Scientist's Search for Identity
Volume 90, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2006
Ayurveda: Putting the house in order
Volume 90, Issue 01 | 10 January, 2006
A Celebration of Albert Einstein
Volume 89, Issue 12 | 25 December, 2005
Earthquake prediction: a game of chance?
Volume 89, Issue 11 | 10 December, 2005
Asymmetry between Arts and Science
Volume 89, Issue 09 | 10 November, 2005
Deemed Universities and other Universities
Volume 89, Issue 08 | 25 October, 2005
Where have our young ones gone?: The coolieization of India
Volume 89, Issue 07 | 10 October, 2005
Foretelling the monsoon: Freedom and responsibility
Volume 89, Issue 02 | 25 July, 2005
Balancing the equation
Volume 89, Issue 01 | 10 July, 2005
Internet publishing
Volume 78, Issue 02 | 25 January, 2000
The great divide - Can we bridge it? [Guest Editorial]
Volume 64, Issue 08 | 25 April, 1993
Science and technology in the post-liberalization era [Guest editorial ]
Volume 64, Issue 07 | 10 April, 1993
Saving Indian Science[Guest editorial]
Volume 63, Issue 09 | 10 November, 1992
A tasteless chemical mix
Volume 59, Issue 04 | 20 February, 1990
Whither India's medical legacy?
Volume 59, Issue 03 | 05 February, 1990
The earth sciences in Current Science
Volume 59, Issue 02 | 20 January, 1990
The pursuit of Science: Its Motivations
Volume 56, Issue 04 | 20 February, 1987

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