Month: August 2015

An Antarctic fur seal mother smells its pup. Credit: David Vaynor Evans, British Antarctic Survey

Fur Seals Get By With a Little Help From Their Smells

Janaki Lenin 24/08/2015

Antarctic fur seals are so good at finding their...

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Tackling the Right of Adivasis to Safe Motherhood

Aarti Dhar 23/08/2015

UNICEF findings suggest that almost two-thirds of all maternal...

Image of a hypothetical ocean planet with a terrestrial atmosphere and two satellites. Credit: Lucianomendez/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Not All Waterworlds Can Host Life

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/08/2015

A waterworld the temperatures on which are outside a...

A photograph of the fire at a chemical plant in Shandong, following an explosion. Source: weibo

Chemical Plant Blows Up in Shandong, China

The Wire Staff 22/08/2015

Like with the Tianjin explosion, the chemical plant in...

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The World Needs Time to Debate Plan to End US Control of the Internet

Bedavyasa Mohanty 22/08/2015

The internet is a vast network of interconnected computers...

We know exactly what it looks like but have been unable to explain how it came into being - until now. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), CC BY-SA

How Did Jupiter and Saturn Form? The Answer May Lie With the Humble Pebble

Jillian Scudder 20/08/2015

Scientists are one step closer to answering more detailed...

Tamil Nadu is the only Indian state to ban the sale of over-the-counter emergency contraception. Credit: t_trace/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Big Pharma is Subtly But Surely Spinning Statins Out of Control

Deepak Natarajan 20/08/2015

An impression is being hammered down that statins are...