Month: September 2018

An illustration of the coconut tree from Hortus Malabaricus, with names in Latin, Malayalam, Arabic and Konkani written in the Nagari script. Credit: K.S. Manilal

A Kerala Botanist’s Affair With an Unlikely 17th Century Book

Akshai Jain 30/09/2018

K.S. Manilal first chanced upon the 'Hortus Malabaricus' in...

Tesla Motors CEO Musk speaks during the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Providence

Tesla, Musk Pay $40 Million to Settle Tweet Charges, Musk to Resign as Chairman

Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder 30/09/2018

Musk is now required to step down as chairman...

A billet of highly enriched uranium. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal May Have Plateaued: Study

Dinesh C. Sharma 29/09/2018

In the absence of any direct information about weapon...

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More Than Half World’s Killer Whales Are Threatened by Leftover Industrial Chemicals

Crispin Halsall 29/09/2018

Polychlorinated biphenyls were phased out three decades ago. But...

Instruments of the ASTROSAT being inspected at the ISRO Satellite Centre. Credit: ISRO

A New Effort to Bring Astronomy and People Closer

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 29/09/2018

Astronomers have been using Astrosat's instruments to study diverse...

Indonesia: Death Toll Rises to 384 After Tsunami and Earthquake

Indonesia: Death Toll Rises to 384 After Tsunami and Earthquake

Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fransiska Nangoy 29/09/2018

Indonesia's meteorological and geophysics agency BMKG issued a tsunami warning after the quake, but...

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Tesla’s Elon Musk May Settle With US Regulators, but Ready to Fight Fraud Lawsuit

Jan Wolfe and Michelle Price 29/09/2018

The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Musk of...