Year: 2017

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Infinite in All Directions: Apolitical Scientists, Bose v. Newton, Science That Matters

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/02/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Does an Anomaly in the Earth’s Magnetic Field Portend a Coming Pole Reversal?

John Tarduno and Vincent Hare 06/02/2017

Are we headed to a magnetic reversal and all...

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A Brief History of Earth: The Rock From Space That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs – and Much Else

Sandhya Ramesh 06/02/2017

The asteroid chunk was nearly 15 km in diameter...

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Open Drains Are One of Delhi’s Biggest Sanitation Problems

Akshay Gupta, Namitha Sadanand, Shreya Chandra, Shreya Tandon and Vidushi Jayathilak 06/02/2017

On studying three unauthorised colonies, it was found that...

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Review: Enrico Fermi, the Quiet ‘Pope’ in a Collapsing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/02/2017

The Pope of Physics, by Bettina Hoerlin and Gino...

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The Benefit of Making Human-Animal Hybrids

Martin Pera and Megan Munsie 05/02/2017

Human-animal hybrids or 'chimeras' sound strange, but they offer...

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How North Chennai’s Kamarajar Port Made a Bad Oil Spill Worse

Pooja Kumar 05/02/2017

In spite of set protocols, an initial denial that...