Month: July 2017

Sriharikota

Will India Continue to Saturate Orbits With Lots of Satellites?

According to a US space expert, India which recently...

The Lonar crater lake. Credit: Vivek Ganesan/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Extraterrestrial Spell Of Maharashtra’s Lonar Crater

Purva Variyar 19/07/2017

The Lonar crater is the only known impact crater...

Volunteers try to check the water of river Nagabali during flash flood in Rayagada district, Odisha on Monday. Credit: PTI

Odisha Floods Death Toll Rises to Four

While two persons had perished in floods in Kalahandi...

robotics

Indians Win Gold at 1st Global Robotics Competition in US

A group of seven Indian students has bagged two...

An undated supplied image from Geoscience Australia shows a computer generated three-dimensional view of the sea floor obtained from mapping data collected during the first phase of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Credit: Reuters/Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

MH370 Search Data Unveils Fishing Hotspots and Valuable Geological Data

Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett 19/07/2017

The meticulous search of the missing plane in the...

Genetically isolated populations are vulnerable to recessive genetic diseases. Credit: sharadaprasad/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Genetic Isolation in Casteist India Could Render Some People More Vulnerable to Disease

Dinesh C. Sharma 19/07/2017

There is reduced genetic variation among the people of...

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Debate: Why the ‘Neuroscience of Lynching’ Article Is Flawed

Shruti Muralidhar 19/07/2017

Shruti Muralidhar contests some of the claims in Sumaiya...