Month: July 2016

The Pāhoehoe lava flow, Hawaii. Credit: Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A Brief History of Earth: Dancing With Complex Life and Continents in the Devonian

Sandhya Ramesh 11/07/2016

A series exploring the natural history of Earth, beginning...

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Health Data Should Leave No Indian Behind

Oommen C. Kurian 08/07/2016

The shift from the MDGs to sustainable development goals...

Onlookers look at sattelites being launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. Credit: PTI

US Lawmakers Enquire About Policy Governing Export of Satellites to India

Lalit K. Jha 08/07/2016

This comes after India's recent entry into the MTCR...

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If Cow Urine Contains Gold, Nobody Knows

Raghavi Rao Kodati 08/07/2016

Despite a study, cows are no alchemists. Extant biological...

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UN Working to Tackle Havoc Wreaked by ‘El Nino’ and ‘La Nina’

Jutta Wolf 08/07/2016

The UN agencies' efforts to help more than 60...

The Adani port at Mundra, Gujarat. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Environment Ministry Denies Lifting Adani Fine, Documents Say Otherwise

The Wire Staff 07/07/2016

Senior ministry officials who had earlier recommended the fine...

Bt cotton. Credit: nostri-imago/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

In Nobel Laureates v. Greenpeace, Don’t Ignore the Sociology of GM

Rajshree Chandra 06/07/2016

It is with caution that promises and claims of...