Year: 2015

The Usman Road flyover, descending onto South Usman road. It connects two points on the same line but has resulted in severe congestion on normal days beneath it. Credit: Chennai Corporation

#ChennaiRains Changes Everything

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/12/2015

Even if it’s the sole silver-lining, focusing on the...

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COP21 Diary: From the Pacific to Chennai, Those Degrees Show Us What They’re Capable Of

Anjali Vaidya 03/12/2015

Representatives from the small island states of the world...

Jeff Bezos. Source: Blue Origins

Why Has Jeff Bezos Joined the Space Race?

Loizos Heracleous 02/12/2015

Today’s space race is less of a competition with...

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Relativity’s Kin, the Bose-Einstein Condensate, is 90 Now

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/12/2015

It's been 20 years since physicists realised the first...

Screengrab from a YouTube video that accompanied Sooam's promotional campaign to have people clone their dead pets.

Many Tensions at Play as Chinese Cattle-cloning Factory Takes Shape

Nandita Jayaraj 02/12/2015

Last week's announcement that the world’s biggest cloning factory...

The 150+ heads of state in attendance on the first day of climate negotiations at the COP21 in Paris. Source: UNFCCC

Multiple Closed-door Meetings Make Smaller Nations Protest

Nitin Sethi 02/12/2015

India wants negotiations on one issue to not occupy...

Climate change will be felt more severely by the people forced to slip through the borders between the united nations. Credit: Anjali Vaidya

COP21 Diary: The United Nations, their Porous Borders and the People in Between

Anjali Vaidya 02/12/2015

Anjali Vaidya's day-2 dispatch from the COP21 in Paris...