Month: January 2016

A traffic jam in Bengaluru, 2008. Credit: eirikref/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

We’re Still Building Safer Roads for Cars, Not People

T.V. Padma 27/01/2016

India has been upgrading its highways since 2000 and...

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The Many Mysteries Behind Why Manapad is India’s Pilot Whale Graveyard

Janaki Lenin 27/01/2016

Some of the causes being explored by the scientists...

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What Would a Real Spider Man Look Like?

Janaki Lenin 26/01/2016

Could Spider Man climb up skyscrapers like he does...

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The Muslim, Jewish and Communist Legacy of India’s Pharma Revolutionary

Kenneth X. Robbins and John McLeod 25/01/2016

The fascinating backstory to Cipla, the Indian company that...

Transformation of E. coli with green fluorescent protein. Credit: Tokyo Bishonen/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Beauty and Intrigue of Seeing Evolution in Action

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 25/01/2016

A tool used by biologists to study evolution is...

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Priggish NEJM Editorial on Data-sharing Misses the Point it Almost Made

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/01/2016

NEJM labours under the impression that the data generated...

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NAVIC, India’s Very Own GPS-lite

Sandhya Ramesh 22/01/2016

As with all other satnav systems, the NAVIC will...