Year: 2016

Remedies at a homeopathic pharmacy in Varanasi, India. Credit: Jorge Royan/Wikimedia Commons

The Safety, Efficacy and Business of Publicly Funded Ayurveda

Prashant Reddy 15/07/2016

When an ayurvedic drug has been 'approved' by the...

The region under threat is built on the world’s largest river delta, and water is everywhere. Widespread poverty, soft sediments and rapidly multiplying infrastructure including bridges like this one near the southern city of Khulna make the region exquisitely vulnerable to earthquakes. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

A Giant Quake May Be Lurking Under Bangladesh and Beyond

Kevin Krajick 13/07/2016

Bangladesh and parts of North-Eastern India and Myanmar sit...

Labourers work at the site of a commercial building under construction in Noida. Credit: Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee/Files

Real Estate Projects May No Longer Need Environmental Clearances

The Wire Staff 13/07/2016

An environment ministry proposal, effectively already in use thanks...

The May 23 test, where the RLV-TD was fit upon an HS9 booster and carried to 70 km. Credit: ISRO

ISRO Plans Scramjet Engine Test Atop Its Heaviest Sounding Rocket in July

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/07/2016

The scramjet engine will eventually power the first indigenous...

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New Dwarf Planet Found Far Beyond Pluto

Sandhya Ramesh 12/07/2016

The discovery of RR245 should not come as a...

Rabab Ali, with her younger brother. Credits: Qazi Ali Athar

Seven-Year-Old Sues Pakistan Government Over Climate Change

Zofeen T. Ebrahim 12/07/2016

Girl claims plans to develop dirty coal deposits will...

Callisto, one of the four Galilean moons. Credit: NASA

Infinite in All Directions: Lehrer’s Comeback, Curbside Geology and Life on Titan

Vasudevan Mukunth 11/07/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire’s science newsletter....