Year: 2017

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Thirty Years of Official Collusion Helped Tamil Nadu’s Beach Miners Break the Law

Sandhya Ravishankar 29/01/2017

Violations of regulations continued unchecked under both Jayalalithaa and...

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Indian Researchers Unravel How a Common Insecticide Can Cause Diabetes

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/01/2017

They found that organophosphates, common in India, are broken...

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Here’s How the Western Indian Ocean’s Blue Economy Can Thrive

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg 29/01/2017

The ocean can no longer be viewed as a...

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These Women Are On a Quest to Save Mandarins

Aashima Dogra 29/01/2017

Two horticulturalists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in...

All theories can and should be refined by new experiments, and this leads to new, testable predictions. A macro photo of a Romanesco broccoli. Credit: Nicolas Raymond/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Crosstalk: A Toast To Scientific Theories, Laws and Modelling

Sunil Laxman 28/01/2017

It's important to appreciate why a future in biological...

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Debunking the ‘Junk DNA’ Theory

Nandita Jayaraj 28/01/2017

A.J. Rachel, a molecular biologist, was determined to prove...

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Unearthing Gujarat’s History, One Figurine At a Time

Aashima Dogra 27/01/2017

Archaeologist Sushmita Sen Pramanik studies the early-historic phase of...