Month: August 2016

Two researchers working with the plague in Philippines, 1912. Credit: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

A Study of Human History Through the Lives of Disease-Causing Bacteria

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 31/08/2016

Phylogenetics compares the genomes of extant organisms to reconstruct...

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Women in Science: The Mathematicians of Surathkal

Nandita Jayaraj 30/08/2016

Five scholars from NIT Surathkal talk about the struggles...

A rig addressing the oil spill off the Mumbai harbour in January 2011. Credit: felixdance/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Landmark NGT Judgments Hold Private Firms, Not God or Government, Responsible

Nehmat Kaur 30/08/2016

Activists are hopeful that the judgments will help deter...

YInMn blue. Credit: Mas Subramanian/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Listen: How the First New Shade of Blue in 200 Years Was Found

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 30/08/2016

Its makers call it YInMn Blue, named after the...

41 Confirmed Cases of Locally Transmitted Zika Virus in Singapore

Marius Zaharia 29/08/2016

All but seven of those infected had fully recovered,...

Watch: Activists Say Plastic Kills Most Cows in India

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 28/08/2016

Clementien Pauws and Rukmini Sekhar speak to The Wire...

First Case of Zika Virus Reported in Singapore

Marius Zaharia 28/08/2016

A 47-year-old Malaysian woman working in the city-state was...