Year: 2016

Kamarajar Port has declared its intent to make land where water is. Source: Author provided

Chennai May Just Be Masterminding its Next Flooding Disaster

Nityanand Jayaraman 21/06/2016

Hidden away in two tables in an urban masterplan...

Ramanujan, centre, with his colleagues in Trinity College. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Infinite in All Directions: Ramanujan’s Genius, Kali’s Oracle, and the Sociology of Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/06/2016

Infinite in All Directions is our new science newsletter....

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Natural Disasters Have High Negative Impact on Children and Schools in Asia Pacific

Alisa Tang 20/06/2016

In the coming decades, an estimated 200 million children...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he arrives in Greenland with Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen for a tour of the Illulissat Icefjord and Jakobshavn Glacier

Melting Arctic Ice Reveals New Ground, Highlighting Need For New Climate Policy

Lesley Wroughton 20/06/2016

The move towards clean and sustainable energy policies needs...

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Will the Second Iteration of the Human Genome Project Usher in Greater Innovation?

Binay Panda 20/06/2016

HGP-Write has been envisioned as an effort to synthesise...

All it takes is that you ask the right question, and go about answering it the right way. Credit: lwpkommunikacio/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Crosstalk: Can Anyone Be a Scientist?

Sunil Laxman 20/06/2016

That ancient human drive to wonder about what might...

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Why Are So Many of Us Over-Sensitive?

Emma Young 19/06/2016

When a gentle glow feels like a spotlight and...