Year: 2016

Women Entrepreneurs Are Transforming Energy Use In Rural India

Soumya Sarkar 05/10/2016

Swayam Shikshan Prayog, a Maharashtra-based non-profit, is helping women...

Cabinet Accepts Amendments to HIV-AIDS Bill

The government approved amendments to bring in legal accountability...

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Credit: nobelprize.org

Makers of World’s Smallest Machines Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

The Wire Staff 05/10/2016

These machines are a thousand times smaller than the...

GSAT-18. Credit: ISRO

GSAT-18 Launch Postponed Due to Cross Winds

ISRO's latest communication satellite is now scheduled to be...

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Holding Big Oil Liable For Climate Crisis Could Parallel US Tobacco Litigations

Zeenat Masoodi 05/10/2016

Widespread lawsuits holding the oil industry responsible for the...

A cup filled with superfluid helium. Because of quantum mechanical effects, the helium will crawl up the sides of the cup in a thin film and collect as a droplet on the outside, and drip below. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How the Physics Laureates Used Geometry to Tame the Very Weird of the Very Small

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2016

The physics Nobel laureates were able to use ideas...

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics. Credit: nobelprize.org

Physics Nobel Goes to Three Scientists for Work on Exotic Forms of Matter

The Wire Staff 04/10/2016

The 2016 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded...