Year: 2017

banglaore

When Cities Were Nature’s Haven: A Tale From Bangalore

Harini Nagendra 29/10/2017

Ecological history of Bangalore can help understand why nature...

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How Much of a Problem Is an Astrology Workshop at IISc?

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/10/2017

Instead of trying to eradicate belief in pseudoscientific ideas...

life

Rama’s Got a Heart for Science

Nandita Jayaraj 29/10/2017

Valapadasu Rama is developing a tool that instantly identifies...

Field photograph of the excavated ichthyosaur skeleton in the Katrol Formation near Lodai village. Caption and source: PLOS

Remarkably Complete 150 Million Year Old Marine Reptile Fossil Found in Gujarat

Lakshmi Supriya 29/10/2017

This is the oldest and most complete fossil of...

Protest in memory of Berta Cáceres, assassinated in 2016. Credit: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY 2.0).

Beleaguered Environmental Activists in Honduras Face Threat From the Country’s Law

Melissa Vida 29/10/2017

According to the criminal code law, organisers of demonstrations...

Repeal the 8th amendment campaigners hold a banner outside government buildings calling for a referendum on the introduction of laws on abortion on the same day as Ireland begins another round of negotiations to form a Government in Dublin, Ireland April 6, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Five Years After Indian Woman Who Was Denied an Abortion Died, Will Ireland Finally Reform Its Laws?

Severyna Magill 28/10/2017

A parliamentary committee is currently debating the question on...

Philip Pullman. Credit: Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Philip Pullman Sheds Light on Science and Religion in ‘His Dark Materials’

Kanta Dihal 28/10/2017

Pullman shows how science – like religion – can...