Year: 2015

An industrial wasteland. Credit: cultr/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Paris Agreement and Being Grateful for Small Mercies

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta 16/12/2015

The recently concluded agreement leaves unresolved a number of...

Inside the Borexino neutrino detector, during construction, in 2001. The photomultiplier tubes are visible. Credit: Borexino

Physicists Could Have to Wait 66,000 Yottayears to See an Electron Decay

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2015

The longest coherently described span of time I’ve encountered...

An art installation by artist Isaac Cordal in Montreal, 2015. Source: Facebook page

The Paris Agreement is a Good Instrument – if 55 States are Able to Ratify it By 2017

Mrinalini Shinde 15/12/2015

The Paris Agreement is structured in a way that...

A map of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere logged by the NASA Earth Observatory in 2010-2012. Credit: NASA

Listen: All We Want for Christmas is Air We Can Breathe

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 15/12/2015

Armed with low-cost sensors, some people are trying to...

Inside one of the control centres of the collaborations working on the LHC at CERN. Each collaboration corresponds handles an experiment, or detector, stationed around the LHC tunnel. Credit: CERN

New LHC Data Has More of the Same But Could Something Be in the Offing?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2015

Data from the machine's upgraded run in 2015 offers...

150 heads of state met in Le Bourget on the first day of COP21, which concluded with an agreement better than previous iterations but still criticised for not being strong enough. Source: UNFCCC

The Paris Climate Agreement at a Glance

The Conversation 13/12/2015

On December 12, 2015 in Paris, the United Nations...

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Le Bourget Forgoes Sleep as Draft Negotiations Continue Into Wee Hours of COP21

Anjali Vaidya 12/12/2015

Even at this very late stage, debates still rage...