Year: 2016

Illustration of the dust ring surrounding HD 181327. Credit: Amanda Smith, University of Cambridge

First Evidence of Icy Comets Orbiting a Sun-like Star

University of Cambridge 24/05/2016

The results are a first step in establishing the...

A solar flare observed on August 31, 2012. Credit: NASA

Solar Storms Could Solve Longstanding Paradox of How Life on Earth Arose

Monica Grady 24/05/2016

A new study has significant implications for theories about...

Space Shuttle Atlantis's three Block II RS-25D main engines at liftoff during the launch of STS-110. This image was extracted from engineering motion picture footage taken by a tracking camera. Caption and credit: Wikimedia Commons

ISRO’s Reusable Launch Vehicle: What Happened and What Next?

Vasudevan Mukunth 24/05/2016

ISRO did next to nothing to publicise the HEX1...

File photo of Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi January 19, 2009. Credit: Reuters

President Mukherjee Signs Ordinance Keeping State Boards Out of NEET This Year

This ordinance will ensure that students of state...

Bread and butter. Credit: praveenpn4u/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

When Chernobyl’s Radioactive Residues Were Thought to Be in Mumbai’s Butter

K.S. Parthasarathy 24/05/2016

A former secretary of the AERB recalls how safe...

The untreated effluents, especially from textile dyeing units, that Drain Number 2 carries from Panipat to the Yamuna upstream of Delhi. Credit: Dilip Banerjee/thethirdpole.net.

Panipat Dyes Poison Delhi Waters

Juhi Chaudhary 24/05/2016

High levels of ammonia released by industrial plants in...

The PSLV takes off on its 24th mission in April 2014 to launch the IRNSS 1B satellite. Source: ISRO

Why Haven’t ISRO and the US Signed Their Commercial Space Launch Agreement Yet?

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2016

ISRO will have to take a call about whether...