Month: May 2018

Representation of a helicoid strand of DNA. Credit: rafaelzajczewski/pixabay

Gene Editing Tech Needs Enabling Policies to Be Useful in India

Shambhavi Naik 31/05/2018

All emerging technologies need certain policies to ensure their...

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Why We Suspect Earth’s Journey Around the Sun Had a Say in How Life Evolved

Lakshmi Supriya 30/05/2018

It all began with a big debate: were the...

A Greater Indian fruit bat in flight. Credit: Trikansh sharma/Wikimedia Commons, CC0

The Absence of Evidence for Nipah in Fruit Bats Is Not Evidence of Absence

Nithyanand Rao 30/05/2018

This is because it is difficult to find a...

All You Need to Know About the 840 Small Worlds Discovered Beyond Neptune

All You Need to Know About the 840 Small Worlds Discovered Beyond Neptune

Michele Bannister 30/05/2018

Discovery of many icy worlds helps unravel the solar...

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Age of Enlightenment: The Promise of Circadian Lighting

Lynne Peeples 30/05/2018

Much remains to be learned about the physiological impacts...

FILE PHOTO: Peter Salama, Executive Director of the Health Emergencies Programme at the WHO attends a briefing for World Health Assembly (WHA) delegates on the Ebola outbreak response in Democratic Republic of the Congo at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

Almost All at Immediate Risk of Ebola in Congo City Now Vaccinated: WHO

Tom Miles 30/05/2018

The deputy director-general also said that the WHO hoped...

Villagers inspect the damaged house which collapsed during last night's thunderstorm and rain, in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. As many as five persons were killed and four others injured as lightning struck some parts of Unnao district. Credit: PTI

Thunderstorms Leave 34 Dead in UP, Bihar

Storms this month have left a trail of destruction...