Month: June 2016

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More than ‘AMRUT’, Indian Cities Need Nature-Based Solutions to Revive Themselves

Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar 17/06/2016

Given the high level of economic inequality in the...

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Disappearing Source of the Ganga

Vidya Venkat 17/06/2016

Scientists say dwindling snowfall reduces the volume of water...

An artist's illustration of Juno, with Jupiter in the background. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Juno Nears Jupiter to Unravel Its Secrets

Sandhya Ramesh 17/06/2016

The most pressing questions about the gas giant have...

You might spot the jaguar. To a colour blind monkey, this simply looks like the number ‘57’. Credit: Andre Dib/shutterstock

Monkeys in South America Are Almost All Colour Blind and No One Knows Why

Vinicius Donisete Goulart 17/06/2016

Colour blind vision might actually be an advantage in...

Parasitic Cape honeybees out-reproduce other bees using a few unusual gene regions. Credit: Andreas Wallberg and colleagues

These Honeybees Tell Us Something About the Evolution of Sex

Nandita Jayaraj 16/06/2016

Sexual reproduction is widespread on Earth but its evolutionarily...

An artist's illustration of the LISA Pathfinder mission in space. Credit: ESA

Pathfinder Mission Eases Our Way to Exploring the Gravitational Universe

Ronak Gupta 16/06/2016

The news of its success is heartening as it...

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LIGO Detects Second Black Hole Merger, Sets Gravitational Wave Astronomy on Its Way

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/06/2016

The Indian members of the scientific collaboration were instrumental...