Pint of Science 2026 ran from May 18 to 20 across bars in Indian cities, mixing cold beer with rocket science, tattoo immunology, and pandemic prediction. Former Isro chief Dr S Somanath, who led Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1, headlined the Delhi edition and nobody in those rooms left early.
Tattoos are no longer just body art. From vaccine delivery and self-fading inks to wearable health monitors, the medical future of tattoos was unpacked by researcher Nishtha Bhargava at the Pint of Science India festival in Delhi.
A new paper calculates that technological civilisations survive for just 5,000 years, offering a chilling answer to the famous Fermi paradox.
Every UPI payment you make by scanning a QR code triggers a cascade of sophisticated mathematics in under a second. Here is the science of why that crumpled, faded square on a shop counter still processes your payment perfectly every single time.
Every octopus alive today exists because its mother died for it, and the answer is written into her DNA. Here is the genetics and biology behind one of nature's most ruthless and elegant designs.
Every winter, hundreds of thousands of flamingos descend on Mumbai's coastal wetlands, and the reason is rooted in biology. Here is the science that explains one of urban India's most spectacular natural phenomena.
A thin crescent Moon will pass Venus and Jupiter in the western sky between May 18 and 20, forming one of the most beautiful naked-eye events of 2026. Here is how to watch it from India, and the science behind every light in the sky.
In 2018, a single virus killed 28 Asiatic lions in Gir in weeks, and every wild Asiatic lion on Earth still lives in that one forest. Here is why India is racing to turn Barda Wildlife Sanctuary into an extinction shield before it is too late.
India's Union Cabinet approved a Rs 37,500 crore scheme to convert coal into syngas, a versatile gas that can replace imported LNG, urea, and ammonia. Here is the science behind it.
For 20 years, the pink bollworm has been quietly evolving past India's Bt cotton, while the country's laboratories waited for a regulatory signature that never came. Inside the slow fading of white gold, and the Rs 5,659 crore mission to bring it back.
Every jar of honey is a chemical archive of the flowers a bee visited and the season it lived through. This week, on Climate on My Plate, we open the honey jar and find a warming world staring back.
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has shared a behind-the-scenes look at hypoxia training ahead of the Axiom-4 mission to the ISS. Here is the science behind one of the most dangerous and least understood risks in human spaceflight.
The US government has released a declassified video of a star-shaped object filmed over the Middle East in 2013, and it remains officially unexplained.
India has set 2040 as its deadline to land astronauts on the Moon. Here is the blueprint: the rockets, the science, and the sequenced missions that will get it there.
The shehnai's hauntingly beautiful melody filled the Red Fort on India's Independence Day without a single microphone, because its physics makes it one of the most powerful acoustic instruments ever built.
India has developed BIRSA 101, its first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell disease, using a more precise molecular tool than the globally approved Casgevy and at a projected cost up to 20 times lower.
Hyderabad-based startup EON Space Labs has launched Lumira_E40I50, India's first germanium-free thermal drone camera that detects humans from 2 km and vehicles from 8 km using onboard AI.
Indian physicist Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan was tasked with proving that the Raman Effect was real and consistent, not a fluke, contamination, or wishful thinking. CV Raman later acknowledged that if the Nobel Prize had been awarded solely for the 1928 discovery, Krishnan would have rightfully shared it.
My cats almost never meow at each other, only at me. I learnt that the meow is a sound cats developed for us across ten thousand years, refined by our ears and folded around the pitch of a human baby's cry.
The sitar's distinctive sound is produced by a gently curved surface that makes each note bloom before it settles, an effect Indian craftspeople perfected by ear centuries before scientists could explain it.
