Month: May 2017

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How Metallurgy Helped Expose a Terrorist’s Hand in the 1985 Kanishka Crash

Nithyanand Rao 16/05/2017

V. Ramachandran, a metallurgist from IISc, recalls how he...

The Changing Life of the Wakhi People in Pakistan’s Shimshal

Rocio Otero 16/05/2017

Perched on the mountains of Karakoram, this indigenous community...

File photo of Narendra Modi and Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Credit: PTI

Shivraj Chouhan’s Narmada Clean up Deserves Emulation, Says Modi

Gargi Parsai 15/05/2017

Narendra Modi and Chouhan marked the end of a...

A wasp drilling into a fig. Credit: Pratibha Yadav

Meet the Wasp That Sniffs With Its Bum

Janaki Lenin 15/05/2017

Scientists from IISc, Bengaluru, performed experiments to highlight how...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Credit: PTI

Madhya Pradesh Government Set to Spend Big to Ensure Modi’s Narmada Visit is a ‘Success’

The Wire Staff 15/05/2017

Officials of various districts have sought lakhs of rupees...

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Science’s Search for the Origins of Belief Has Drawn It Into the Human Mind

Jay Desai 15/05/2017

Religion has evolved with Homo sapiens. It will likely...

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Remembering Bill Tutte: Another Brilliant Codebreaker From the Second World War

Graham Farr 15/05/2017

He was one of the brilliant mathematical geniuses who...