Year: 2016

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India’s Only Hope of Squaring the Climate Change Circle is to Step on the Gas

Sudha Mahalingam 19/01/2016

If India has to depend on fossil fuels for...

A Japanese fish found in Washington after hitching a ride in a boat sent across the Pacific Ocean by the 2011 tsunami. Allen Pleus (author provided)

How the Japanese Tsunami Sent Marine Invaders Across the Ocean – and Why You Should Be Worried

Emma Johnston and Jim Carlton 19/01/2016

The societal, economic and ecological disasters of marine bioinvasions...

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India Has to Be its Own Cultural Ambassador, But it Has to Be Scientific About it: Manjul Bhargava

The Wire Staff 19/01/2016

Edited excerpts from a speech delivered by mathematician and...

Two of the chimpanzees that participated in the study. Credit: Esther Hermann

Not Just Humans – Chimpanzees Trust Their Buddies, Too

Janaki Lenin 18/01/2016

If you thought trust was a unique trait of...

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Kejriwal’s Odd-Even Worked As a Single Short-term Emergency Measure for Delhi

Nitin Sethi 15/01/2016

More should not be expected from it without greater...

K.C. Nicolaou, who won a share of the 2016 Wolf Prize in chemistry for his work in synthesising complex organic molecules. Source: scripps.edu

Wolf Prizes for 2016 Announced

The Wire Staff 14/01/2016

In eminence, the physics and chemistry prizes are considered...

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Listen: From the Lab to the Kitchen – Resurrecting Indus Valley’s Proto Curry

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 13/01/2016

What does it take to recreate a dish that’s...