Year: 2015

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An Environmental Message That Gets Lost in Translation

Mrinal Pande 22/12/2015

The formalised language of government edicts about environmental protection...

This image of Mars was taken in October 24, with MOM taking advantage of its elliptical orbit to capture the planet's breadth. Credit: ISRO

Dry Ice, Rather Than Flowing Water, Could Have Sculpted Mars’s Mysterious Gullies

Andrew Coates 21/12/2015

A new explanation involves sublimating carbon dioxide under the...

India has 'assured' the US it will not issue compulsory licences on medicines. Credit: Carl Milner/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

India’s Complacency Over Steroids is Taking a Steady Toll

Deepa Padmanaban 21/12/2015

Doctors prescribing the life-saving drugs without regard for longer-term...

Fabiola Gianotti. Image: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN

Fabiola Gianotti Set to Become First Woman to Lead CERN

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/12/2015

Fabiola Gianotti’s research excellence, administrative astuteness and creative intuition...

Global Investors Meet 2015

How the Indian Government Helped Let GVK Biosciences Off the Hook

Dinesh Thakur 20/12/2015

The commerce minister and the pharma industry lobby used...

A technician aligns a replacement focal-plane assembly with a powerful three-dimensional microscope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md. This FPA will be installed on the Near Infrared Camera instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope's principal imager. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn.

Crosstalk: To Boldly Go From Collecting Facts to Making Discoveries

Sunil Laxman 20/12/2015

There are great discoveries to be made where we...

A pair of voles, one with an ear tag that is used as a unique identifier for the vole. Credit: Aubrey Kelly/Cornell University

Why Do Some Prairie Voles Pair for Life?

Janaki Lenin 20/12/2015

During a famine, vole populations can crash. Those with...