Month: June 2015

Soldiers of the Indian Army during a practice drill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Get Wired 30/6: Tawde in Scam, Lack of Bulletproof Vests, Priyanka’s Land Deal, and More

The Wire Staff 30/06/2015

Enforcement Directorate officials sent to Singapore on Lalit Modi’s...

A Falcon 9 rocket rolling out. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX Rocket Blows Up but Let’s Remember that #SpaceIsHard

Vasudevan Mukunth 30/06/2015

It’s not all-or-nothing each time people try to launch...

A black pacu. Credit: Carnat Joel/Flickr

Listen: Pacu, the Aggressive Immigrant Fish

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 30/06/2015

Through interviews, anecdotes and research, Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth...

A cave in Scotland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Curious Bends – AIDS-Control in Trouble, Quitting Beef, Caves of Meghalaya and More

Akshat Rathi & Vasudevan Mukunth 30/06/2015

Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter curated by science...

Press. Credit: Caltech

Get Wired 29/6: ‘Un-Islamic’ Terrorism, Museum for Saraswati, Urea Imports, and More

The Wire Staff 29/06/2015

Syed Ali Gilani calls ISIS, Boko Haram, Tehreek-e-Taliban un-Islamic...

Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit: eGuide Travel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

India v. Bangladesh, in 8 Charts

Nikhil Srivastav and Aashish Gupta 29/06/2015

Cricket is not the only sport that Bangladesh has...

Gandhi Bhawan at Panjab University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How Small Universities Can Game Rankings

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/06/2015

The joust for getting placed well in rankings is...