Instant Scholar' is a Times of India initiative to make academic research accessible to a wider audience. If you are a Ph.D.

Five years after a widely revered study was debunked as totally bogus, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether trust in the ...

Engaging primary-school-age children with STEM will help them to think critically and develop informed opinions for the rest ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving ...

The blooms have become an annual problem in the Great Lakes. DNA studies show what’s growing there and why it’s dangerous.

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Recent scientific evidence suggests consciousness is more than just a function of the brain and three theories have emerged ...

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something ...

New research reveals how synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex can strengthen during sleep, offering insight into how ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...