Comment

With increasing numbers and intensity of heatwaves, India must ensure heat action plans are useful

India recently launched a National Quantum Mission — an ambitious initiative hoping to revolutionise data security, defence strategic communication, banking, energy, environment and health care. Urbasi Sinha, who has worked in quantum science and technologies for over 20 years, welcomes the move.

Wastewater testing helped identify COVID-19 hotspots almost a couple of weeks before clinical data could

Restoring links between farming processes and livestock rearing can reduce air and water pollution, and help farmers meet rising costs

‘Tomato flu’ is a new variant of the prevalent hand, foot, and mouth disease, study finds

A captive bald eagle in Kolkata should trigger a discussion on repatriation of animals

Absence of active western disturbances and anti-cyclonic subsidence of warmer dry air are other reasons for the unusually hot spell

The strange sight of kangaroos on the loose in Bengal is a worrying signal of the growing demand for non-native animals as pets in India

The search should be on for an effective transmission-blocking vaccine that will protect from both infection and disease

Gut bacteria play a protective role, but more studies are needed to establish if and how diet promotes these microbes

Microbes find strength in numbers to form armour against antibiotic onslaught

Abdul Jamil Urfi revisits how environmentalism evolved from a top-down conservation approach to grassroots activism.

It is time to revamp the career landscape to make it genuinely inclusive, say Sarah Iqbal and Banya Kar.

Find offers insights into the range of emerging complex life, says geologist Suvrat Kher.

The COVID-19 crisis has primed governments to invest substantially in pandemic preparedness, a lesson that must be replicated to fight the alarming growth of drug resistance globally, write Manica Balasegaram* and Yogendra Kumar Gupta**.

COVID-19 is impacting women more than men, say Nitya Rao* and Jayashree Balasubramanian**.

Manju Naika* and Sandeep Kumar Pathak** analyse how the policy around access to scholarly knowledge is shaping up in the country.