Month: November 2015

The Kali river on the Western Ghats. Credit: Sarangib/pixabay

What Lies Behind Environmental Law Making

Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli 18/11/2015

There are many unanswered questions about the contents and...

The 2012 IgNobel Prize. Source: UCSB

Listen: Celebrating the Quirky Side of Science

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 17/11/2015

For over two decades, the Ig Noble Prize has...

"This illustration shows the positions of 1,000 Swift GRBs on an all-sky map oriented so that the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way, runs across the centre. Bursts are colour coded by year, and the location of GRB 151027B is shown at lower right. An annual tally of the number of bursts Swift has detected appears below the label for each year. Background: An infrared view from the Two Micron All-Sky Survey." Caption and image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre and 2MASS/J. Carpenter, T. H. Jarrett, and R. Hurt

NASA Telescope Logs the 1,000th Blackhole Birth It’s Spotted

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/11/2015

Since its launch, Swift has significantly contributed to the...

A stunning image of Saturn's rings, Earth and its moon in a single frame, captured by the Cassini satellite in July 2013. Credit: NASA Goddard Spaceflight Centre

A Country’s True Commitment to Science Will Restrict the Practice of Religion

Pushpa M. Bhargava 17/11/2015

The present government is religion-oriented rather than being science-oriented,...

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Diwali Was Worse this Year for Delhi Than in 2014

T.V. Padma 15/11/2015

Delhi’s air, already brimming with toxic pollutants ahead of...

Much like the computer chips that made Gordon Moore famous, the accelerator on a chip could dramatically shrink the size of accelerator technology to benefit society. Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Particle Accelerators May Soon Be Within Reach of the Developing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/11/2015

In the last decade, tabletop accelerators have inched closer...

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Crosstalk: What’s Necessary and Sufficient for Science to Thrive, Over the Years

Sunil Laxman 15/11/2015

Crosstalk is our monthly column on the history, culture...