Month: May 2015

A Higgs boson decaying into 2 tau leptons (azure cones), which subsequently decay into either an electron (blue line) or a muon (red line). Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Q&A With Scientists From the World’s Largest Science Experiment

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/05/2015

Scientists from the world's largest science experiment participated in...

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‘Writing about the Diminishing Capacities of a Loved One Takes Courage’

Chitra Padmanabhan 31/05/2015

Samaddar's thesis that care must extend beyond individual and...

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Excerpt From ‘Krishna: Living with Alzheimer’s’

Ranabir Samaddar 31/05/2015

Seven days after Krishna died, one of my friends...

Deploying an ocean bottom seismometer. Credit: Yusuke Yamashita, ERI, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Rumbling From Ocean Trenches Could Be Sign That Japan Faces Mega Earthquake

Luca De Siena 30/05/2015

Japan already has the most powerful seismic network in...

An artist's impression of New Horizons flying by Pluton, with Charon visible in the background. Credit: SwRI/NASA

Why You Should Care About the New Horizons Probe Nearing Pluto

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/05/2015

The New Horizons probe is less than two months...

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Rethinking Public Policy with Nudges from Psychology

Ritwik Banerjee 29/05/2015

Sixty-seven years since independence and our republic is still...

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IIT Madras and Modi Government Play Big Brother, Ban Student Group

The Wire Staff 29/05/2015

One of the country's leading academic institutions has 'derecognised'...