Year: 2015

An air conditioning salesman, one of few happy people in Ahmedabad. Credit: Divyakant Solanki / EPA

Is India’s Heatwave a Freak Event? A Statistician Investigates

Hugo Winter 05/06/2015

Care must be taken with estimating how India's heatwave...

New data set includes more accurate data from the Arctic, where more warming has occurred. Credit: NASA, CC-BY-SA

Improved Data Set Shows No Global Warming ‘Hiatus’

Jay Lawrimore, NCEI 05/06/2015

With the improvements to the land and ocean data...

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In India, You Can Plagiarize and Flourish

Pushkar 05/06/2015

Those with power and influence, like the Vice-chancellors of...

HIV positive t-shirts have been distributed to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. This would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. Credit: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

AIDS: What Drove Three Decades of Acronyms and Avatars?

Carla Tsampiras, University of Cape Town 04/06/2015

It was on June 5, 1981, that the first...

Mmmm... monosodium glutamate. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Are Madhuri Dixit and Big B Guilty of Promoting Maggi Noodles?

Arvind Datar and Payal Chawla 03/06/2015

If indeed Maggi noodles or any other product is...

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Get Wired 3/6: Dodgy Pilots, Patent Refugees, E-visa Data Fudge and More

Ayush Ranka and Vaishali Rathore 03/06/2015

All you need to know to get up to...

A view of the LHC tunnel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

LHC Revs Up to Go Where No Collider Has Gone Before

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/06/2015

The Large Hadron Collider, a particle-smasher in Europe, is...