Year: 2017

A doctor attends to patients at Gaon Dawakhana, the community-owned village clinic that runs on family subscriptions. Credit: Lokpriya Janhit Sewa Sansthan.

How Women of Lalganj Mobilised the Community to Bring Doctors to Their Doorsteps

Sandeep Chavan 03/10/2017

Increased healthcare expenses and lack of access to hospitals...

2017 Medicine Laureates Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. Source: nobelprize.org

Medicine Nobel for Experiments That Worked out How Our Internal Body Clocks Tick

The Wire Staff 02/10/2017

Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young...

A woman looks for food along an empty area of a supermarket following Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 30, 2017. Credit:Reuters/Alvin Baez

Puerto Rico: Acute Shortages Plunge the Masses Into Survival Struggle

Robin Respaut and Nick Brown 02/10/2017

The broad humanitarian crisis highlights the extreme difficulty of...

S.S. Bhatnagar. Source: snipview

CSIR Announces Winners of S.S. Bhatnagar Prize for 2017

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 02/10/2017

Girish Sahni, the CSIR director general, said that no...

Jellyfish prefer to sit upside down on the floor of their tank. Credit: Caltech

Sleeping Jellyfish, Discreet Cannibals, Conscientious Parrotfish and Other Amazing Animals

Janaki Lenin 02/10/2017

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

Elderly barn owls do not become hard of hearing as they age. Credit: Group Animal Physiology and Behaviour, Oldenburg University

It’s a Hoot Being an Owl – They Don’t Become Deafer With Age

Janaki Lenin 01/10/2017

The higher end of the barn owls' hearing spectrum...

Kuljeet Kaur. Credt: The Author

A Planetary Scientist and Her Box of Pre-Solar Grains

Aashima Dogra 01/10/2017

Scientist Kuljeet Kaur is working on ‘experimental indirect astronomy’,...