Year: 2015

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Credit: IAEA, CC-BY-SA

Where Will Nuclear Power Plants of the Future Be Built?

Paul Dorfman 22/05/2015

What was once seen as a futuristic source of...

A screen shows a rolling feed of new 'Ge

India Watches Silently as a Battle to Control the Internet Unfolds

Arun Mohan Sukumar 22/05/2015

Internet governance as practiced by ICANN has been prone...

© Anna Lomax and Catherine Losing

DIY Prosthetics: The Extreme Athlete Who Built a New Knee

Rose Eveleth 21/05/2015

Brian Bartlett lost his leg at 24. Rose Eveleth...

Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, wherefore Alan Turing worked during the Second World War. Credit: Draco2008/Wikimedia Commons

Two of Alan Turing’s WW-II Papers Are Now in the Public Domain

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

The papers are didactic and meticulous, and provide great...

A representation of the Indonesian Throughflow. Credit: cmar.csiro.au

As Seas Exchange Heat, the Indian Ocean is Becoming a Marine Hothouse

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/05/2015

A team of researchers from France and the US...

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Controversy Dogs Waste-to-Energy Plant

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 19/05/2015

Central Pollution Control Board to review controversial Okhla plant...

An artist's illustration of the Mars Orbiter orbiting the red planet. Credit: Nesnad/Wikimedia Commons

It’s Time For ISRO to Reach For the (Blue) Sky

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/05/2015

The problem is not that we haven’t had more...