Month: February 2016

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Neglecting Health Expenditure in Favour of the Chimera of Insurance

Dipa Sinha 29/02/2016

When the data tells us insurance-based health schemes have...

One of the neutrino detectors at Daya Bay. The glass 'bubbles' lining the walls are photomultiplier tubes that will amplify the faint signal registered when a neutrino is detected. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Evidence for a New ‘Ghost’ Particle Builds to Explain 20-year-old Anomaly

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2016

Many think the sterile neutrino could be behind the...

A stalking leopard caught on camera. Credit: bhavik Thaker/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Our Eclipsed View of Conservation is Driving Human-Animal Conflicts

Neha Sinha 27/02/2016

The ‘human’ in ‘human-wildlife conflicts’ suggests that many drivers...

The current window display at the Wellcome Trust which creates images by using petri dishes of bacterial colonies as pixels, 2009. Caption & credit: gwire/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Starved Bacterium is the Mirror of Civilisation

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/02/2016

It's amazing what bacteria will do to keep themselves,...

A SpaceX Dragon capsule in orbit around Earth, as part of the CRS-5 mission. Credit: SpaceX

Before ISRO Can Go Onward and Upward, India Needs a Good Space Law

Ashok G.V. 26/02/2016

One hopes that the needs of the future and...

This image of the asteroid Vesta, calculated from a shape model, shows a tilted view of the topography of the south polar region. The image has a resolution of about 1,000 feet (300 meters) per pixel, and the vertical scale is 1.5 times that of the horizontal scale. Caption & credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI

Alien Mountains Stand Tall on the Shoulders of Still Waters

Sandhya Ramesh 26/02/2016

Before the heights of mountains are measured, whether on...

Credit: Suvasini Ramaswamy

How Do You Break the Mind of an Elephant?

Suvasini Ramaswamy 25/02/2016

Elephants are not domesticated creatures, and the ones we...