Month: December 2015

Darth Vader. Credit: aloha75/Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

The Science at Work in Star Wars

University of Cambridge 31/12/2015

It’s said that great science fiction has a basis...

Picture of a smoggy sunrise shot in an unknown location in India. Credit: spykster/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Ways in Which Delhi’s Pollution Can Kill You

Deepak Natarajan 30/12/2015

Before you draw your next breath, be aware that...

Puff adders are ambush foraging snakes and therefore have squat bodies and broad heads for handling their infrequent, large meals. Snakes with this body form tend to be slow moving, and can thus not rely on speed to escape from predators. Credit: Graham Alexander

Not on the Nose: How Puff Adders Dodge Their Predators

Janaki Lenin 30/12/2015

Puff adders can give even trained dogs the slip.

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What it Will Take to Make Delhiwallahs See Reason in Odd and Even

Anvita Arora 30/12/2015

While such initiatives are likely to work for shorter...

We've started taking antibiotics for every little sniffle. Credit: oliverdodd/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Human History of Infectious Agents and the Reality of Antimicrobial Resistance

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/12/2015

With great confidence and supposed vision, we decided that...

A scene from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'. Source: Lucasfilm

Why Weapons Like the Death Star Are a Waste of Time

Stuart Armstrong 22/12/2015

Instead of constructing one base made up of trillions...

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SpaceX Reuses Falcon 9 Main Stage in Long-Awaited First

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/12/2015

A quote by Musk on spacex.com states that if...