Thought to be around 2,000 years old, some believe the clay jar to be an ancient battery. If that is correct, a new study ...

Jaipur: Students preparing for Class 10 social science board exam must keep in mind that the emphasis has moved from rote memorisation towards concept.

A massive 30-year study of more than 110,000 adults explores how different activities—from walking and running to strength ...

The researchers found no significant difference between the outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer, whether or not the ...

Long before Make in India, Anna Mani helped build India’s weather science from scratch, making instruments, data, and global respect. Today she is barely remembered.

Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-fiction novel Annie Bot, our read for February – and the needle swings wildly from positive to negative ...

Researchers analyzed proteins extracted from "How to Cure and Expel All Afflictions and Illnesses of the Human Body" and "A ...

Some of these ‘remedies’ included human feces, powdered lizards and hippo teeth.

Flags represent more than just colourful objects flapping away gently in the wind; they represent the tale of history, the ...

When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

Beyond stress reduction, reading appeared to improve concentration by 11 per cent, help people feel more connected to others, ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...