Month: May 2015

A family at the entrance to a typical petrocasa in Venezuela. Credit: gob.ve

Petro-ghar, an Oil-House for India that Withstood Superstorm Sandy

Supriyo Chatterjee 23/05/2015

Petrocasas could be incorporated into the national disaster management...

Image of Tyrrhenus Mons in Hesperia Planum region taken by Mars Colour Camera on February 25, 2015, at a spatial resolution of 166 m from an altitude of 3192 km.

ISRO Keeps Up Steady Trickle of Photos From Mars Orbiter

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2015

The latest images show Tyrrhenus Mons, one of the...

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Credit: IAEA, CC-BY-SA

Where Will Nuclear Power Plants of the Future Be Built?

Paul Dorfman 22/05/2015

What was once seen as a futuristic source of...

A screen shows a rolling feed of new 'Ge

India Watches Silently as a Battle to Control the Internet Unfolds

Arun Mohan Sukumar 22/05/2015

Internet governance as practiced by ICANN has been prone...

© Anna Lomax and Catherine Losing

DIY Prosthetics: The Extreme Athlete Who Built a New Knee

Rose Eveleth 21/05/2015

Brian Bartlett lost his leg at 24. Rose Eveleth...

Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, wherefore Alan Turing worked during the Second World War. Credit: Draco2008/Wikimedia Commons

Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II Papers Are Now in the Public Domain

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

The papers are didactic and meticulous, and provide great...

A representation of the Indonesian Throughflow. Credit: cmar.csiro.au

As Seas Exchange Heat, the Indian Ocean is Becoming a Marine Hothouse

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

A team of researchers from France and the US...