Year: 2016

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Government Study Finds Toxins in Coke, Pepsi PET Bottles

The Wire Staff 06/10/2016

The toxins leached into the drinks from the PET...

US President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the Paris Agreement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, US, October 5, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas

Paris Climate Accord to Take Force After Support from European Nations

Alister Doyle and Roberta Rampton 06/10/2016

US President Barack Obama to hailed it as a...

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With the Paris Agreement, India Has Signed off on the First Phase of Its Climate Diplomacy

Arun Mohan Sukumar 06/10/2016

Its political manoeuvring may have saved the day, but...

The World's oldest woman, Jeanne Calment, 120 years old, is kissed by two young girls during a special ceremony in a retirement home in Arles

Humans May Already Have Reached Maximum Lifespan

Will Dunham 06/10/2016

Average life expectancy continues to increase and more people...

Inside the IISc Khudapura campus, Challakere. Credit: Gaurav Mendiratta

A Science City Rises as an Ecosystem Disappears

Anjali Vaidya 06/10/2016

As the Challakere kavals are turned into a strategic...

Before Nobels: Gifts to and from Rich Patrons Were Early Science’s Currency

Vera Keller 06/10/2016

People have always known science would advance faster with...

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa shared the chemistry prize for building mechanical devices like motors and lifts using molecules for parts. This is a representative image. Credit: ucdaviscoe/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

There’s Plenty of Room At the Bottom – the Nobel Chemistry Laureates Put a Nanocar There

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/10/2016

It is little surprise that, walking through the gates...