Month: February 2016

The UK's permission for editing human embryos at the Francis Crick Institute doesn't really mean designer babies. Credit: Wolfgang Moroder/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Editing Embryos – Six Steps to an Informed Opinion

Nandita Jayaraj 12/02/2016

For the first time, a government has approved research...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in Hanford, Washington. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab

Scientists Claim Sensational Detection of Gravitational Waves and Herald New Era in Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/02/2016

The LIGO collaboration in the US has claimed it...

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Even as it Dares to Dream, ISRO Needs Clear Metrics of Success

Narayan Prasad 10/02/2016

We are sitting on a host of possibilities for...

A view of Rashtrapati Bhavan enveloped in a blanket of smog, caused by a mixture of pollution and fog, in New Delhi in November 2012. Credit: PTI

The Road to Fixing Air Pollution in Delhi, Beyond Odd-even

Namit Arora 10/02/2016

What makes matters worse in Delhi are the incessant...

Among prairie voles, both parents take equal responsibility in rearing offspring Credit: Todd Ahern

Even Some Rodents Display Empathy

Janaki Lenin 10/02/2016

For a long time, scientists thought consolation was a...

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Listen: Move Over, GPS! A Desi Navigation System is on Its Way

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 10/02/2016

ISRO recently launched the 5th of 7 satellites that...

The destructive meteor trace that fell on Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013. Credit: Alex Alishevskikh/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Could a Meteorite Really Have Killed a Bus Driver in Vellore?

Monica Grady 10/02/2016

There is nothing more certain in life than...