Month: January 2018

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Would a Rationalist Like Ruchi Ram Sahni Have Survived Today?

Neera Burra 27/01/2018

Teacher, scientist and science educator Ruchi Ram Sahni had...

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In Future ‘Smart Cities’ Ajmer and Jhansi, 54% Household Septic Tanks Are Still Cleaned Manually

The Wire Staff 27/01/2018

Open defecation, too, remains a problem in these two...

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Cancer Is Costing BRICS Economies Billions of Dollars Each Year

Alison Pearce 27/01/2018

Policies encouraging lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks during an interview with Reuters journalists in Washington, US, January 9, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

In Reversal, US EPA Halts Approval Process for Alaska Mine Project

Reuters 27/01/2018

Citing reasons pertaining to a likely risk to the...

An Ulam spiral of the number of divisors of the first 100,000 natural numbers. Numbers with exactly two divisors – 1 and the number itself – are called prime numbers. Credit: Cortexd/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Review: the Trials and Delights on the Long Road to the Twin Prime Conjecture

Nilakantan R.S. 26/01/2018

Most readers at varying levels of sophistication in mathematics...

just one instance of exposure was enough to introduce DNA breaks and cause the chromosomes to rearrange themselves. Sponchia/pixabay

Drinking Alcohol Linked to DNA Damage in Cells That Produce Blood

Sarah Iqbal 26/01/2018

An experiment in mice found that the damage once...

Lava flows from the crater of Mount Mayon volcano during a new eruption in Legazpi city

Philippines Gets Ready for Three-Month-Long Volcano Emergency

Ronn Bautista and Roli Ng 26/01/2018

The most active volcano in the Philippines, called Mayon,...