Year: 2016

The Cheonggyecheon stream. Credit: stari4ek/ Wikimedia Commons

Lessons from Seoul: How to Revive a River and Manage a Landfill

Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty 19/03/2016

Seoul can teach Delhi a few things on how...

This image shows a collision event with a photon pair observed by the CMS detector in proton-collision data collected in 2015 with no magnetic field present. The energy deposits of the two photons are represented by the two large green towers. The mass of the di-photon system is between 700 and 800 GeV. The candidates are consistent with what is expected for prompt isolated photons. Caption & credit © 2016 CERN

Physicists Excited as Prospects for Suspected New Fundamental Particle Improve

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/03/2016

Although the data's statistical significance isn't as good as...

An antibiotic disc – used to test how susceptible certain bacteria are to being acted upon by different chemical combinations. Credit: Iqbal Osman/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

WHO Urges Action as Threat of Invincible ‘Super Bacteria’ Looms

Nandita Jayaraj 18/03/2016

With reports of bacteria having breached a last resort...

Andrew Wiles at a lecture in Boston, Massachusetts, 1995. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Andrew Wiles Wins 2016 Abel Prize for Proving Fermat’s Last Theorem

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/03/2016

The history and mathematical complexity of Fermat's Last Theorem...

Manoj Mishra discusses the NGT's motives in allowing the World Cultural Festival to proceed. Credit: PTI/YouTube

‘The National Green Tribunal Undermined Its Own Prestige by Allowing Sri Sri Event’

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 17/03/2016

Environmentalist Manoj Mishra discusses the NGT's decision to...

Health Budget Figures Tell a Sick Story

Pavitra Mohan 16/03/2016

Why Jaitley's plans for 3,000 generic drugs pharmacies, a...

Roscosmos's Proton rocket takes off with the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander on March 14, 2016, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Credit: ESA

First ExoMars Mission Takes Off to Join Search for Alien Life

Sandhya Ramesh 16/03/2016

The Russian-European mission will place an orbiter around Mars...