Month: July 2018

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is buried at depths between 1.5 and 2.5 km below the south pole. The only visible equipment is the IceCube Lab, which hosts the computers that collect data from the over 5,000 light sensors in the ice. In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the lab, the September neutrino event is shown in the ice below Antarctica's surface. Caption and credit: IceCube Collaboration/NSF

Breakthrough: South Pole Lab Finds Ancient Blazar at End of Cosmic Rays Mystery

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/07/2018

In another feat of multi-messenger astronomy led by the...

Credit: Photo by Wall Boat/Flickr

The System of Scholarly Publishing Is Broken. How Can We Fix It?

Jon Tennant 12/07/2018

If we diversify our thinking away from the superficial...

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What Keeps Mumbai Awake at Night? The Cacophony of Metro Construction Sounds

Sukanya Shantha 12/07/2018

On June 22, the state government filed an affidavit...

SpaceX spacecrafts the Dragon and the DragonRider sit on display at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne

SpaceX, Boeing Face Delays in NASA Crew Launch Programme

Joey Roulette 12/07/2018

The report from the government accountability office said that the issues...

A '3D' view of Kattupalli as seen from above. Source: Google Maps

Meet Tamil Nadu’s Eight-Lane Expressway to Environmental Hell

Nityanand Jayaraman 12/07/2018

The environmental and social disruptions that the eight-lane road...

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To Reinvent Peer Review, We Must Reinvent How We Pay Peer-Reviewers Back

Madhusudhan Raman 11/07/2018

Any attempt to change the nature of peer-review must...

A local resident walks in front of submerged and destroyed houses in a flooded area in Kurashiki

Explaining Japan’s Worst Weather Disaster in Decades

Linda Sieg 11/07/2018

The recent rainfall was unprecedented and disaster experts said that torrential...