These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

India's contributions to mathematics are well-documented. The concept of zero, the decimal system, algebra, and trigonometry were all developed by Indian scholars centuries before their appearance in ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of ...

At the ‘Astronomy Olympiad’ — Orientation-cum-Selection Camp (OCSC) held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, five students were selected on Wednesday ...

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

Balachandra Rao: Mathematician, astronomer, historian of science, decoding India's rich intellectual heritage while challenging pseudoscience and advocating scientific temper.

Pranav Sharma is a science historian at the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India, and a visiting faculty member of the Druk Gyalpo’s Institute in Paro, Bhutan. In the early hours of 19 ...

The sources for Al-Khwarizmi’s book on Indian numerals and mathematics using them, which is now known as the Liber Algorithmi, were translated into Arabic at this time, which included an ...

In The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, William Dalrymple breathes life into a glorious era of the Indic world, one that was chronicled by the likes of Xuanzang and many others.

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest of the world.

Sacsayhuamán, is an ancient Incan fortress in Peru, which is renowned for its remarkable stone walls that are constructed without mortar. The enormous stones, some weighing over 100 tons, fit ...

Henkel Adhesives Technologies India Private Limited (Henkel India) has set up an Astronomy Laboratory and Observatory called Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Space Observation Center in Adarsh English School, ...