Month: August 2018

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Walmart Tried to Make Sustainability Affordable. Here’s What Happened

Andrew Spicer and David Graham Hyatt 14/08/2018

Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart's ambition...

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Launches World’s First Mission to ‘Touch’ the Sun

NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe, a robotic spacecraft...

The Perseids meteor shower over the Very Large Telescope, Chile, in August 2010. Credit: ESO/S. Guisard, CC BY 4.0

Why the Perseids Meteor Shower, Which Peaks This Time of Year, Is Awesome

Aswin Sekhar 12/08/2018

From a recreational, educational and research point of view,...

ISRO chief K. Sivan during an event to mark Vikram Sarabhai's birth centenary. Credit: PTI

ISRO Plans to Launch TV Channel to ‘Inculcate Scientific Temper’

The space agency is also planning to organise training...

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New Challenge to IISc Superconductivity Claim Spotlights Data Anomaly

R. Ramachandran 12/08/2018

A potentially big discovery, close scrutiny by the scientific...

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Rains Lash Several Parts of Kerala, Relief Work Affected

More than 60,000 people have been accommodated in relief...

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With Palm Oil Expansion, India is Blazing a Trail to a Parched Future

Madhu Ramnath 12/08/2018

To help the nation minimise its foreign currency expenditure,...