Year: 2016

Obesity has primarily been driven by high caloric food intake and people being more inactive. Credit: nathanmac87/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Diet and Lack of Exercise Main Reasons for Dramatic Rise in Diabetes

Sundeep Ruder 07/04/2016

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released the first...

View of the INO site at West Bodi Hills near Madurai. Credit: ino.tifr.res.in

Why India’s Most Sophisticated Science Experiment Languishes Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Nithyanand Rao and Virat Markandeya 06/04/2016

Within a year of the Union Cabinet sanctioning Rs.1,500...

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Why X-ray Astronomers are Anxious for Good News from Troubled Hitomi Satellite

Kevin Schawinski 06/04/2016

It was designed to see things like million-degree gas...

The golden ratio in action. Credit: wurzle/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: How Scientists Observe Nature for Inspiration

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 06/04/2016

Several utility items and gadgets we use today are...

Delhi residents have been campaigning for over a year. Credit: Save Naini Lake Facebook/ www.thethirdpole.net

Locals, Government Join Hands to Save Delhi’s Naini Lake

Juhi Chaudhary 05/04/2016

Local residents have been campaigning for over a year...

India has for long been a breeding ground for mosquitoes and mosquito-carried diseases, and so its authorities should be on the alert for a possible Zika virus invasion in the near future. A mosquito. Credit: turkletom/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Two Women Contract Zika Virus in Vietnam

Reuters 05/04/2016

The Vietnam government has confirmed two women have contracted...

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Ebola and Zika Epidemics are Driven by Pathologies of Society, Not Just a Virus

David Sanders 04/04/2016

To tackle Zika and other viral outbreaks, we need...