Year: 2017

A boy is silhouetted against smoke while playing cricket in a littered ground in a slum area on the outskirts of Karachi

In China and Pakistan’s Coal Romance, Where’s the Love for the Climate?

Fahad Saeed 31/03/2017

Massive new coal plants planned for Pakistan will further...

Sea lampreys in their larvae phase. Credit: R. McDaniels, Great Lakes Fishery Commission

Fluorescent Frogs, Bees’ Feet-Smelling Signatures and Mites That Smite with Chemicals

Janaki Lenin 31/03/2017

A quick review of interesting research on living things...

Handout photo of the reusable main-stage booster from the SpaceX Falcon 9 makes a successful landing on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean about 185 Nautical miles off the coast of Florida

SpaceX Makes History With Successful Launch of First Recycled Rocket

Irene Klotz 31/03/2017

It took Space Exploration Technologies Corp, as the California-based...

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Modi Government Says It Has No Deadline to Implement Long Pending Forest Policy

Nitin Sethi 31/03/2017

The forest policy has been in limbo for over...

Clockwork theory will have to face down a host of challenges before it can be declared a definitive success. Credit: gaborfejes/pixabay

New Math Technique Mops up Higgs Boson’s Mass Problem Like Clockwork

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/03/2017

At the Rencontres de Moriond, CERN physicists presented a...

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To Curb Sex Selective Abortion, First Regulate Private Healthcare

Arun Gadre 30/03/2017

As long as healthcare is treated as a commodity,...

There is no need to stay away from meat, butter, cheese and eggs to keep your heart healthy. Credit: RitaE/pixabay

The Fat Lie You’ve Been Told About What’s Hurting Your Heart

Deepak Natarajan 30/03/2017

Despite multiple studies showing that carbohydrates hurt your heart,...