Month: July 2016

Siddhartha Mukherjee. Source: columbia.edu

An Evening With Siddhartha Mukherjee

Raghavi Rao Kodati 06/07/2016

The history of mental illness in his family is...

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More Than 90,000 Affected by Assam Floods, Kaziranga Under Water

The Wire Staff 06/07/2016

Though 40% of Kaziranga has been submerged, officials claim...

Representative image. Credit: smoo/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centre Approves Ayurvedic Drug – But Its Science is Missing

Manasi Gandhi 06/07/2016

An ayurvedic anti-diabetic concoction has been developed by CSIR...

Can a brain be electrically stimulated such that a homosexual man turns straight? Credit: neilconway/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Man Who Attempted to Use Pleasure Conditioning to Turn a Gay Man Straight

Robert Colvile 06/07/2016

Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexuality by implanting...

An image of Jupiter's diverse clouds taken by the New Horizons probe in 2007 (then en route to pluto). Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

NASA Juno Scientists Keen on Studying Water on Jupiter

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/07/2016

In a reddit AMA, scientists said that studying the...

A juvenile frigatebird. Credit: Henri Weimerskirch, CEBC CNRS

Frigatebirds May Sleep in the Air

Janaki Lenin 06/07/2016

Migrating birds burn up reserves even though they feed...

A temple built by the Chola dynasty in Thanjavur. Credit: nithiclicks/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: How Metallurgy is Helping Us Piece Together Our Past

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 05/07/2016

Chola idols that may have been over a thousand...