Year: 2016

A rig addressing the oil spill off the Mumbai harbour in January 2011. Credit: felixdance/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Landmark NGT Judgments Hold Private Firms, Not God or Government, Responsible

Nehmat Kaur 30/08/2016

Activists are hopeful that the judgments will help deter...

YInMn blue. Credit: Mas Subramanian/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Listen: How the First New Shade of Blue in 200 Years Was Found

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 30/08/2016

Its makers call it YInMn Blue, named after the...

41 Confirmed Cases of Locally Transmitted Zika Virus in Singapore

Marius Zaharia 29/08/2016

All but seven of those infected had fully recovered,...

Watch: Activists Say Plastic Kills Most Cows in India

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 28/08/2016

Clementien Pauws and Rukmini Sekhar speak to The Wire...

First Case of Zika Virus Reported in Singapore

Marius Zaharia 28/08/2016

A 47-year-old Malaysian woman working in the city-state was...

An artist's illustration of Juno with Jupiter in the background. Credit: NASA

NASA Juno Swings Past Jupiter’s Clouds, Officially Begins Mission

Sandhya Ramesh 28/08/2016

Each orbit will expose its instruments to a radiation...

The RH-560 sounding rocket during a test in March 2010. Source: ISRO

ISRO ‘Successfully’ Tests Scramjet Engine

IANS 28/08/2016

The scramjet engine, used only during the atmospheric phase...