Year: 2018

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) carrying GSAT-9 communications satellite blasts off from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, India May 5, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Stringer

ISRO to Launch GSAT-7A Communications Satellite on December 19

With a mission life of eight years, the satellite...

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Attempts Being Made to Distill CBDR Principle at UN Climate Talks, India Says

The move came as the UN climate talks to...

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Creation of Designer Babies Is Limited by Biology, Not Technology

A Cecile JW Janssens 12/12/2018

Forecasts of designer babies followed the announcement of the...

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Reports on Avni Death Harden Case that Hunter Went in With Killing Intent

Rishika Pardikar 12/12/2018

The gun that fired the killing shot plays an...

Electron Micrograph of Bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Is There More to Gene Editing Than Creating ‘Designer’ Humans?

John Bergeron 10/12/2018

It may have greater consequences than climate change or...

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Assam’s Rabha Tribe is Fighting to Save Its Land and Identity

Rupa Chinai 10/12/2018

The BJP-led state government’s move to incorporate the Rabha...

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How a Warming Himalaya Will Affect the Monsoons

Kabir Agarwal 10/12/2018

"Large mountains heat up so much that – like...