Month: March 2016

Simulation of a few-femtosecond electron bunch trapped in a laser-excited plasma wakefield. Caption & Source: DESY

First Demo that Some Future Particle Accelerators May Be 100x Smaller

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/03/2016

American physicists have validated the idea that two tabletop...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. Credit: puducherry.gov.in

Listen: A Scientific Take on the Indian National Identity Through Mahalanobis’s Profiloscope

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 24/03/2016

P.C. Mahalanobis’s instrument attempted to assimilate an 'Indian' on...

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Badal is the New Saviour of Punjab’s Waters But Eventually There May Not be Much to save

Jagtar Singh 23/03/2016

The Sutlej-Yamuna Link Land Bill 2016 will help chief...

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The Gates Foundation and the Anatomy of Philanthrocapitalism

Urvashi Aneja 23/03/2016

Without adequate safeguards and greater debate about private aid,...

A small bag of unroasted coffee beans. Credit: Isai Symens/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A Brief History of Coffee – the Brew of Empire, Sedition and Exile

Suvasini Ramaswamy 23/03/2016

Coffee has transformed wild mountainsides into plantations at the...

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India and China Must Move From Fragmented Geography to Himalayan Consensus

Nirupama Rao 22/03/2016

The idea of a shared space is the best...

Ulsoor Lake in Bengaluru. Credit: araswami/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Bangalore’s Dead Fish Are Just a Symptom of the Time Bomb that Lies Ahead

Anjali Vaidya 21/03/2016

Ulsoor Lake is one of the last strongholds in...